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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...

November 2023

November 15, 2023

Jennifer (Taylor’s Version)

I guess we are kind of Swifties now, and here are some things I think...

January 2022

January 24, 2022

From Epiphany Me to Advent Me

I'm afraid I left you to untangle the lights.

November 2020

November 07, 2020

Confessions of an Ex-Rush-Limbaugh Fan Who Eats Tofu: The 2020 Version

This is my childhood's paradox: we had no fear that asking all the classic theological...

March 2019

March 22, 2019

This is My Content, Tweeted for You

There are thousands of digital ways to deliver spiritual content and in my more Luddite...

February 2019

February 20, 2019

Are Your Affairs in Order?

You can, as a matter of fact, show love for someone by giving them money,...

February 09, 2019

Grieving While Productive

Yesterday I wrote on my Facebook page "The Victorians had the right idea. Put black...

January 2019

January 31, 2019

Marriage is a Vocation, Right?

In each other we are most our own.

January 28, 2019

Even Your Dimes

I had anticipated I'd be writing a post early last week, following up on my...

August 2017

August 05, 2017

A mother and a pastor

Today, the article you should read is over at Christianity Today, called "The Pay Gap is...

July 2017

July 06, 2017

Am I Different at Work and At Home?

As the wife and mother of British citizens and someone who has traveled frequently in...

April 2017

April 20, 2017

How to Deal With Distractions When You Have to Work Online

I found these tips from Lifehacker pretty helpful, since all of my jobs except for...

April 18, 2017

Human Beings are Not Investments

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

April 10, 2017

The 29 Best Jobs for Work-Life Balance

...assuming you believe in that concept at all. (Fodder for another post, as I'm off...

April 04, 2017

Guess where it doesn’t pay to go on maternity leave?

Evangelical seminaries, says Emily Dolan Gierer for Christianity Today: In theory, the demand for paid family...

March 2017

March 08, 2017

Millennial Women Are Burning Out

So says an article in Fast Company: Two years ago, Michelle* was a thriving real...

March 02, 2017

A man putting fatherhood first

I like all sorts of things about this interview with Andy Crouch, but one that...

February 2017

February 03, 2017

The Workplace Culture Flying Nannies Won’t Fix

More thoughts on the work of women in particular today. This article from the New...

February 01, 2017

Why Women Quit Working

Lots to ponder here about the role of caregiving in our society as well as...

January 2017

January 17, 2017

Business Travel: When to Bring the Kids and When to Leave Them Home

A little while ago, my faith-and-work-movement colleague Jeff Haanen of the Denver Institute published a...

June 2016

June 09, 2016

The Blessed Virgin Mary, working mother?

When I wrote my blog post about working moms yesterday and went to the most-awesome...

June 08, 2016

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?

April 08, 2016

Also a mother: ordination photo outtakes

A while ago I read a great book called Also a Mother: Work and Family...

July 2015

July 18, 2015

7 secrets of success: part 6 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...

December 2014

December 23, 2014

From the archives: Work-life balance and working moms

Is achieving work-life balance possible? If so, how?

November 2014

November 27, 2014

Images of Thanksgiving

By Bill Droel Our image of Thanksgiving Day is influenced by famous paintings, including from...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

Made for more

In August of 2014, Max Scheirson, CEO of MongoDB, quit his job. Not in itself...