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January 2015

January 02, 2015

[VIDEO] Why is work important?

Why do we work, anyway? Doug Barr of Goodwill Industries talks about work, faith,...

December 2014

December 30, 2014

From the archives: The top ten pain points people face at work

These come to us from Doug Spada at WorkLife.org. You can read more about them...

December 28, 2014

God is at work through his people at work

By Al Erisman God is at work through his people at work. What does this...

December 10, 2014

The heart behind “Why you hate work”

By Brian Gray Earlier this year, the New York Times helped you answer the question...

December 01, 2014

Faith, Work, and #Ferguson: An Opportunity for Us?

By Dr. Vincent Bacote Ferguson, MO has become an emblem, mirror and prism of some...

November 2014

November 18, 2014

A postscript from the Boston Faith@Work Summit

Nathan Roberts on....the Boston Summit and the Mind-Body Problem. Do we really need faith-and-work integration?...

November 13, 2014

Great new post at Leadership Journal on seeing all of life as holy

In an article called "My Three Seasons of Faith and Work", pastor Matthew Woodley opens...

November 07, 2014

Seeing purpose in the mundane

By Emily Ann Higginbotham Being an intern at a financial firm has given me incredible...

November 04, 2014

A little late for All Saints’ Day, but….

....we just ran into this great photo over at Episcopal Church Memes:

October 2014

October 28, 2014

From the archives: What would Jesus do?

"Topeka, Kansas, was in a severe economic recession when Sheldon arrived in 1889 to pastor...

October 14, 2014

NEWS: ReFrame launching soon

From our friends at Regent College Marketplace Institute: Thankful for ReFrame launch late October As...

October 04, 2014

Which is a higher calling: building churches or building fences?

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

October 03, 2014

[VIDEO] How has your work ethic changed over the years?

Today, some helpful words from pharmaceutical and vaccine industry consultant Boyd Clarke, who previously talked...

September 2014

September 17, 2014

Unfulfilling work as vocation?

A little while ago we posted in this space some musings by Larry Saunders, a...

September 10, 2014

Connect YOUR work to GOD’s work and great things happen

Yesterday Leadership Journal's Redeeming Work initiative held the third of five planned conferences on faith, work, and...

September 07, 2014

[VIDEO] How do I handle criticism?

Today we've got some words of wisdom from pharmaceutical industry consultant Boyd Clarke about how...

September 05, 2014

Summer….um, fall…reading list

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

September 03, 2014

Three reasons God cares about your work

We ran into this on the Purpose in Leadership blog of Justin Irving, director of...

September 01, 2014

Happy Vocation Day!

Just ran into this neat post by Gene Veith over at his blog, Cranach, on...

September 01, 2014

Working on Labor Day?

The early roots and rationale of Labor Day seem somehow removed from the modern American...

August 2014

August 31, 2014

[VIDEO] What motivates you in your work?

Today we have more words of wisdom from cargo pilot Norm Goodyear, who previously appeared...

August 14, 2014

[VIDEO] Can day-to-day work be holy?

Cargo pilot Norm Goodyear, whom we featured a couple of days ago, is back with...

August 05, 2014

[VIDEO] How do you make hard decisions?

Today we check in with J. B. Wood (of Shrinking the Camel) with some thoughtful...

July 2014

July 23, 2014

[VIDEO] Ministry in a for-profit business? Watch this talk

Bob Pritchett is President and CEO of Logos Bible Software in Bellingham Washington. Here in a...

July 22, 2014

Longing, ambition, and the life of faith

This interview from The Gospel Coalition's "TGCvocations column" caught our eye recently, since the book...

July 12, 2014

How employing people with disabilities transformed a business

We read this story by Joseph Sunde a few days ago on ActonPowerBlog and thought it was...

July 09, 2014

Mental health: an economic issue, not just a health issue

Recently Danielle Kurtzleben had this to say for online publisher Vox Media about mental health and the economy: Only a...

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...

June 2014

June 28, 2014

Will your faith cost you your next job?

The June 2014 issue of Christianity Today has an article with the rather surprising title,...

June 25, 2014

Does blue-collar work have any meaning?

Today guest contributor Larry Saunders writes about moving from the white-collar to the blue-collar workplace—and...