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September 2025

September 22, 2025

The Social Contract

In this broken time when so much is rent asunder, it felt radical to trust,...

September 01, 2025

Come Labor On

All work, whether done wearing a tie behind a desk, overalls in the repair pit of...

July 2025

July 22, 2025

Not Nearly So Much Like a Mall

One of the things about being an old person on Instagram is that you run...

March 2024

March 16, 2024

In the Doghouse

Does anyone still have a doghouse?

February 2024

February 13, 2024

Bigger Than Football

Football was for guys. It was just a thing they kind of let us show up...

December 2023

December 13, 2023

The Long Goodbye

The overlap between the chattering classes and the people who actually receive government benefits is...

April 2023

April 19, 2023

If You’re Suffering at Work, Here’s a Song for You

Wendell Kimbrough described this song to his Patreon supporters as what the Breastplate of St....

August 2022

August 04, 2022

We’re Just In It for the Money

Here was an attempt to truly infuse liberal arts thinking throughout the curriculum and bring...

October 2021

October 23, 2021

That Time I Accidentally Became a Prophet

"Just in time" is over. The full toll it took on us is only beginning...

May 2021

May 26, 2021

Coronavirus Pilgrimage

As COVID slowly reduces its risk to the level of risks I accept every day...

March 2021

March 25, 2021

Top Ten Things I’ve Forgotten How to Use During the Pandemic

Zoom can put lipstick on you. Really.

January 2021

January 11, 2021

Epiphany Insurrection

I wish I actually knew how to live a faithful political life in this earthly...

August 2020

August 08, 2020

We Are All in One Room Together, Talking, Singing, and Yelling

You couldn't do any better if you had designed a virus precisely to take out...

July 2020

July 07, 2020

Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, and American Exceptionalism

I will readily spend countless hours explaining to other American citizens why other countries do...

May 2020

May 16, 2020

My Name is Karen, and I Want to Talk to the Manager of the Universe

We have a desire to create art, to sing and talk and act and breathe...

May 11, 2020

Ten Things About Work We’ve Learned From COVID-19

Many things most essential to being human turn out to be things that require close...

May 17, 2019

Yes, Virginia, There is Math You’ll Use Every Day

I believe in learning for its own sake as a way of building character and...

January 2018

January 12, 2018

Can Anything Good Come Out of Nazareth?

Can anything good come out of backwaters? Only the salvation of the world.

August 2017

August 11, 2017

Some Confessions the Gen Xer Should Make to the Millennial

Whatever else I thought I might post about today, it got elbowed out (I was...

June 2017

June 27, 2017

The Curse of Hard Work: Another View

So, if you've been reading this blog for long you know I have a lot...

June 16, 2017

We Have to Dare to Preach the Gospel

In this interview, the leader of the Moral Mondays movement talks about leading in the...

May 2017

May 29, 2017

How Government Support Saved Me, Too

D. L. Mayfield (whose career I've followed ever since she and I were put together...

May 26, 2017

Social Entrepreneurship…and Kale

I ran into Sow Green So Good over on the Seedbed Faith and Work Collective....

May 22, 2017

Why Healthcare Matters to God

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

May 16, 2017

When Richer Weds Poorer

Starting tomorrow, I'm taking this class from Made to Flourish regarding ministering to blue-collar workers. As part...

May 14, 2017

When Shark Tank Met the Church: An Update on Innové

Reprinted from Seedbed. See MISSION:WORK's 2014 interview with Brian Jones here. By Brian Jones On...

May 05, 2017

Why Matt Overton started a social enterprise at his church

Social enterprises might be a risky and unusual form of ministry, but a youth pastor...

April 2017

April 22, 2017

Every dying church in America has a community garden. Here’s a different idea

Struggling congregations tend to chase after popular strategies rather than do what Jesus commanded --...

April 18, 2017

Human Beings are Not Investments

This is the message of a recent blog post by Amy Laura Hall of Duke...

March 2017

March 15, 2017

The pastoral vocation in the age of President Trump

Donald Trump may be a different kind of leader, perhaps even a threat to our...