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April 2026

April 09, 2026

Three Conversations (in honor of Eastertide)

There will be ashes at the first, she said that clear and cool Ash Wednesday...

October 2025

October 08, 2025

Why Beth Felker Jones is Protestant

I am wrestling with the fact that I am wrestling with this book.

August 2024

August 23, 2024

The Lost Scholars

Because of women like this, I was admitted to a Ph.D. program without anyone batting...

April 2022

April 06, 2022

For Southerners, To Explain Why

Place is part of vocation. I am from the Midwest, but I live in the...

March 2018

March 24, 2018

Top 10 Things I Hate About Being the Poster Child for the Gig Economy

Did I mention doing taxes?

March 20, 2018

Joy, Toil, Rest, Busyness, and Being Back

You can picture me over the last few weeks being overscheduled. But you can also...

October 2017

October 06, 2017

Craftsmanship? Or Calling?

What AM I trying to do to these people?

May 2017

May 22, 2017

Why Healthcare Matters to God

Fighting Mortality One of the most amazing and simultaneously depressing stories in the Bible (from...

February 2017

February 26, 2017

Christian faith at Deutsche Telekom

...as outlined in this profile at Seedbed of Andrea Baare, a corporate chaplain: As a...

February 20, 2017

God’s into art, not empires

In seminary, several decades ago, I had a good friend named Christ (rhymes with "wrist")...

January 2017

January 03, 2017

Taking a detour off the career path to live Jesuit values

A bit late to the party with noticing this (file that under "need better work-life...

December 2016

December 01, 2016

Do All People (Even Shut-Ins) Have a Calling to Work?

By Kevin Kinghorn I’ve heard that phrase thrown around a lot: that “all people have...

July 2016

July 22, 2016

Why I Left (not the GOP, originally, although it could be that too)

I did not think there could be so much noise I would have rather had...

May 2016

May 13, 2016

Even Atheists Get Called to Their Life’s Work

Non-believers can experience a religious sense of calling, which suggests that calling is a subject...

April 2016

April 24, 2016

The number one thing that might save academia

What would happen to academia if we started treating each other as people?

February 2016

February 04, 2016

It’s time to honor the hard work of raising children

The church should be at the vanguard of a much-needed revolution in caretaking and the...

January 2016

January 13, 2016

Even old dogs can make all things new

Editors' Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Engaging the New...

November 2015

November 30, 2015

Watch GOING ON VOCATION documentary for free!

Right now, the first section of Vision Video's great new Going on Vocation: Exploring Work...

October 2015

October 28, 2015

Follow my passion where, exactly?

This post originally appeared at OnFaith. Ask Laura appears every Tuesday at and features responses...

September 2015

September 15, 2015

The sorrows of Mary and the callings of Christians

Today is the day after the Feast of the Holy Cross, and in the Catholic...

September 05, 2015

Even the New York Times is wondering about the spirituality of work

...or so it would seem from an article that appeared there last Sunday: Gallup regularly...

August 2015

August 06, 2015

“Career services must die!” Thinking holistically about careers

Wake Forest University has created a new model of career development that integrates all aspects...

July 2015

July 19, 2015

Solving office politics: part 7 of an interview with Gloria Nelund

Read the previous installments of our interview with Gloria Nelund, reprinted from Ethix: Defining financial...

July 17, 2015

Don’t solve your company issues in the men’s bathroom: part 5 of an interview with Gloria Nelund

Read the previous installments of our interview with Gloria Nelund, reprinted from Ethix: Defining financial...

June 2015

June 29, 2015

From patriarch to peasant: how I ended up as a machinist and not a minister

Here’s another post in an occasional series about blue-collar work and meaning that we’re running...

June 28, 2015

Faith and profit are not mutually exclusive: an interview

By Bill Peel Henry Kaestner is Chairman of Sovereign Capital, an investment firm he co-founded...

June 12, 2015

What is Your True North? The priority of purpose

Purpose matters. As evidenced by the popularity of Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life—a book...

June 10, 2015

Playing “Hokey Pokey” with the Gospel

By Michael Coyner My E-pistle entitled "Mission Indiana" stirred up a lot of response. Most...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

A seminary president sits down with a facilities worker to talk faith and work

By Andrew Spencer There are only two people with permanent, personally designated parking spots on...

May 26, 2015

Giving voice to our vocational callings

This post comes to us from Duke Divinity School’s magazine Faith & Leadership, an...