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April 2026

April 09, 2026

Three Conversations (in honor of Eastertide)

There will be ashes at the first, she said that clear and cool Ash Wednesday...

February 2017

February 08, 2017

Why we need a new theology of work

Excellent points about work and faith made by Jonathan Malesic here recently: American workers put in...

January 2017

January 30, 2017

Can your work bring you closer to God?

The United Methodist Church says yes here: Large portions of our lives are spent at...

October 2016

October 16, 2016

The Little Jobs Who Won’t Sing

Reprinted from The Green Room. A few months ago, I attended the Acton Institute (you...

August 2016

August 01, 2016

The innovation of the early American church

Although it is commonplace today for Christians to create organizations that tackle social problems, that...

July 2016

July 07, 2016

We’re made to work

People are called to work, not just to provide for themselves, but to help the...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

The blessings of business?

A month or so ago, I got an email from my doctoral advisor (who has...

March 2016

March 06, 2016

The History and Future of the Faith and Work Movement

By Adam Joyce This year, the Oikonomia Network’s annual faculty retreat featured provocative and stimulating...

October 2015

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 04, 2015

10 things you don’t know about the faith and work movement

Next Tuesday, October 13, faith channels across Patheos are participating in an event called #ShareWhatWeShare,...

September 2015

September 07, 2015

Your annual Happy Vocation Day post

Every year on this day we call attention to this neat post by Gene Veith...

September 05, 2015

Even the New York Times is wondering about the spirituality of work

...or so it would seem from an article that appeared there last Sunday: Gallup regularly...

August 2015

August 11, 2015

The priesthood of all believers

Originally published at Ithilien in 2005. One of the central slogans that's come to be...

July 2015

July 16, 2015

How the incarnation and God’s sacramental presence in all creation put our everyday work in a new light

What follows is part of what ended up on the cutting-room floor when I handed...

July 12, 2015

What would Francis Asbury have done when faced with the #PewReport ?

Thanks to Christian History Institute for letting me reprint this. If you get CHI’s daily...

May 2015

May 02, 2015

10 things you don’t know about the Clapham Sect

Attending the Q Conference in Boston this past week, I was reminded that almost any...

March 2015

March 09, 2015

[VIDEO] A final encouraging word from the Faith@Work Summit

Some more great talks from the Faith@Work Summit have now been posted. (Here's the first...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

John Wesley’s messages on work and economics

When we ran our recent series of posts on work and vocation (linked at the...

January 11, 2015

If God really does work through our work, then what do we do about that?

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

December 2014

December 20, 2014

God’s beer mogul

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

December 19, 2014

How and why Methodists moved the market economy forward

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

December 18, 2014

Calvinists, Puritans, and the Wesleyan response to the new industrial reality

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

December 17, 2014

Luther on ordinary work and vocation

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

December 10, 2014

The contemplative contribution

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

December 09, 2014

Early Christianity and everyday work

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