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February 2016

February 08, 2016

From the archives: Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Newspaper Reporters. Let ‘Em Be Actuaries and Optometrists and Such.

What’s the deal with actuaries? Whenever a new list of the best jobs is compiled—like...

February 02, 2016

We have no idea what’s around the corner: part 5 of an interview with Tami Heim

This post continues our partnership with Ethix, a publication of the Center for Integrity...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

VIDEO: Does God Care About the Work We Do?

Words of wisdom from Bonnie Wurzbacher about whether God cares about the work we do....

January 24, 2016

The remarkable power of simply telling the truth

By Timothy Askew; reprinted from Inc. with the kind permission of Timothy Askew. "O, what...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

Can your work be worship….

....even if you work on a construction site? RightNow Media thinks so: For more, check...

December 13, 2015

Leading on Gratitude Road

This past week I had the opportunity to share briefly in a chapel service at...

December 06, 2015

The Peculiar Loneliness of the Entrepreneur

By Timothy Askew; reprinted from Inc. with the kind permission of Timothy Askew. Lonely. God,...

November 2015

November 24, 2015

Thanksgiving and the Power of Gratitude in Business

By Timothy Askew; reprinted from Inc. with the kind permission of Timothy Askew. "All the...

November 17, 2015

This Machinist Says We Need Both Welders and Philosophers, and They Both Need Something Else, Too

Recently, in the 4th Republican debate, Senator Rubio made a comment in regards to raising...

November 12, 2015

Are you a functional atheist?

By Mike Coyner Last week during our Learning Forum for active UM bishops, I heard...

November 02, 2015

4 Radical Ideas About Evangelism

By Bill Peel (read Bill's debate with Progressive Christian Channel blogger John Shore here.) When...

October 2015

October 31, 2015

What do faith and work have to do with #Halloween ?

That question was answered for me profoundly by an interview that appeared on our channel...

October 26, 2015

4 Lessons About Overcoming Obstacles from R. G. LeTourneau

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached...

October 08, 2015

Ron Reed: I’m a Christian, but I don’t do Christian theater

The founder of Pacific Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia, talks about leadership, the arts and...

September 2015

September 28, 2015

How a doctor prescribes grace to her patients

As some of you may have noted, a few weeks ago I spent two days...

September 25, 2015

Don’t Let Unemployment Undo Your Identity

Let's face it. Our identity and work are closely aligned--and rightly so because God made us...

September 12, 2015

Oliver Lee Bateman, QuitLit, and the Higher Education “Staypieces” We Really Need

By Noah Toly In a by-now-more-or-less-viral post to Vox yesterday, Oliver Lee Bateman (posting under...

September 06, 2015

Every task, however simple, sets the soul that does it free

I knew Henry van Dyke wrote The Other Wise Man, but until we sang it at...

September 06, 2015

The number 1 challenge in connecting Sunday to Monday

There is a growing movement across the country among pastors and congregational leaders to think...

August 2015

August 29, 2015

Meeting patients where they are: a further report from Grace Prescriptions (third in a series)

Read more about the conference here: How to write a Grace Prescription 10 things I...

August 28, 2015

10 Things I Learned at Grace Prescriptions (second in a series)

Read more about the conference here: How to write a Grace Prescription 1. Doctors and...

August 28, 2015

How to write a Grace Prescription (first in a series)

Well, for once there is no need to ask if there is a doctor in...

August 26, 2015

The Expendable Worker: Looking for Hope in the On-Demand Economy

“Low, low prices.” With that motto, a generation ago Walmart took over the world of...

August 18, 2015

Amazon: Niche or Norm? –A Question of Valuing Human Complexity

By Stephen Milliken Headlining a look into Amazon’s work environment, The New York Times’ recent...

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...

July 15, 2015

A “Windex Cure” for America’s Moral Decline

By Bill Peel America is losing faith and becoming a secular nation -- but I...

July 10, 2015

Groups help us go fast; teams help us go far

Most people participate in some form of a team or group on a regular basis....

July 03, 2015

Do clothes really make the man (or woman?) Reflections on professional attire

By Stephen Milliken Dress to impress, right? Whether in corporate culture or student affairs, the...

June 2015

June 29, 2015

Too big to fail? Part 3 of an interview with Gloria Nelund

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