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January 2015

January 27, 2015

The story of markets and morals

By Bruce Baker In the months leading up to the crash of 2008, Chuck Prince,...

January 22, 2015

John McKnight: Low-income communities are not needy — they have assets

This interview comes to us from Duke Divinity School's blog Faith & Leadership, an offering...

January 21, 2015

Next steps and resources for church leaders

We’re returning to our occasional series of posts on work and vocation (linked at the...

January 20, 2015

How do we understand our work in the light of our faith?

We’re returning to our occasional series of posts on work and vocation (linked at the...

January 01, 2015

Best Practices for Peace in 2015: Create peace through your conflicts

This post is part of a Patheos Public Square on best practices for peace. You...

December 2014

December 22, 2014

Chocolate and meaningful work

By Alayna Greenfield, originally published at the KPN Resources blog. Regardless of profession, most people...

December 08, 2014

Justice in #Ferguson

(Originally published in September 2014 at the KPN Resources blog.) I recently was asked a...

November 2014

November 30, 2014

Economic wisdom in 12 bullet points

By Drew Cleveland. Originally posted at the Kern Pastors Network Resources blog. People love lists!...

November 27, 2014

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FORUM: Equipping the local church

The Patheos Faith and Work Channel recently contacted leaders of some prominent community development and...

November 21, 2014

A “Theology of Work” in 12 bullet points

By Drew Cleveland. Originally posted at the Kern Pastors Network Resources blog. This pastors network...

November 16, 2014

Change the equation

By Kyle Bushre, originally posted at Kern Pastors Network Resources blog Here’s a little cultural...

November 15, 2014

Forcing people to seek happiness in the wrong places

By Jake Belder; originally posted on his blog. Dorothy Sayers, in her essay, ‘Why Work?’,...

November 03, 2014

Politics in the Pulpit? Yes and No

Editors’ Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Politics in the Pulpit. Read other perspectives here....

September 2014

September 23, 2014

The infernal machine?

Every so often, interesting things actually come in the old-fashioned postal mail. A few days...

September 19, 2014

Money talk from Christianity Today

Boy, if you want some reflection on how faith interacts with your daily working life...

September 15, 2014

[VIDEO] We’re exiles from our true home. So how do we learn to live with that?

Several days ago we let you know about a new curriculum on faith, work, and...

September 05, 2014

Summer….um, fall…reading list

Drew Cleveland posted an excellent summer reading list of books about faith and work over...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

A broken brave new world

This week in the Patheos Public Square, Patheos has selected a few "resident experts" from across Patheos channels...

August 20, 2014

Another new blog on the Patheos Faith and Work Channel!

We're thrilled here at MISSION:WORK and across the Patheos Faith and Work Channel to welcome...

July 2014

July 29, 2014

Is money power?

A new post from Greg Forster over at the Kern Pastors Network blog asks us...

July 08, 2014

Is anything too small for God?

Recently at the Acton Institute's Commentary page, Jordan Ballor was musing on C. S. Lewis,...

July 06, 2014

“Are we putting people on a nicer plane to hell?”

Yes--I sat up too when I read that headline over at the Kern Pastors Network...

July 05, 2014

Are capitalism and Christianity incompatible? A debate

A debate on just that very question graced the pages of the New York Times in...

June 2014

June 22, 2014

How can you help the poor?

Earlier this year on the Kern Pastors Network Drew Cleveland called attention to the book The...

June 19, 2014

[VIDEO] How can we cross the political divide?

Recently on the Oikonomia Network author and Detroit pastor Chris Brooks shared an excerpt from his...

June 08, 2014

What does faith and work mean to blue-collar workers?

Recently on the Oikonomia Network, pastor Blaine Crawford pondered the white-collar orientation of many of...

June 07, 2014

Does capitalism have a future?

Those of you out there reading this blog have a number of things you want...

June 05, 2014

Listen to a banker talk about serving God in her work

Recently, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's The Well website, a ministry for graduate and professional women, sat down...

June 02, 2014

Are you a dinosaur?

In a recent article on the Christianity Today website, Art Lindsley of the Institute for...

April 2014

April 26, 2014

Five myths about the millennial worker

Millennials are rising from their futons, emerging from their parents’ basements, and stepping out of...