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October 2015

October 17, 2015

From the archives: Working on gratitude

One simple way to help people integrate faith, work, and economics is through gratitude. You...

October 16, 2015

Changing one congregation: Jobs for Life

Last year the Patheos Faith and Work Channel contacted leaders of some prominent community development...

October 05, 2015

Pittsburgh pastors seeking the common good

By Terry Timm This spring I began serving as one of the Pittsburgh regional coordinators...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

The church: shelter, fighter, or preview?

By Bruce Ashford As American churches face an increasingly hostile and post-Christian culture, we must...

September 27, 2015

Looking forward to Laity Day

We reprint this post from Mike Coyner, whom you've read on this blog often, not...

September 19, 2015

10 ideas for leadership development on a shoestring

By Laura E. Everett How do you develop leaders in your organization without funding? The...

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...

August 2015

August 13, 2015

Why it’s important to take the RIGHT kind of action

Business books urge leaders to act, but sometimes it’s more important to follow Jesus’ lead...

August 10, 2015

Is the Sunday to Monday gap more perilous than we thought?

By Tom Nelson “If there is a mist in the pulpit there is a fog...

July 2015

July 07, 2015

One of the most strategic things pastors can do

Faith, work, and economics integration is one of the most strategic things you can invest...

June 2015

June 25, 2015

10 Steps Toward Becoming a Culturally Engaged Church

We’ve made huge strides in the past several years on bringing the topic of work...

June 06, 2015

How to Pray for Specific Vocations

By Joanna Meyer; reprinted from the website of the Denver Institute for Faith and Work....

June 04, 2015

Death and resurrection of an urban church

This post comes to us from Duke Divinity School’s magazine Faith & Leadership, an offering...

May 2015

May 22, 2015

Encouraging ALL calls to ministry!

This post was originally written for an audience of Methodists in Indiana but we here...

March 2015

March 22, 2015

Making homes for the arts in sacred places

This post comes to us from Duke Divinity School’s magazine Faith & Leadership, an offering...

March 02, 2015

Giving Jesus a bad name

By Mike Coyner To me the name Jesus is not just a good name, it...

February 2015

February 23, 2015

Jazz, entrepreneurship, and tradition

As an enthusiastic jazz fan and an appreciator of business entrepreneurship, I enjoy watching folks...

February 22, 2015

Is the gap between pulpit and pew narrowing? Read the latest research

New research conducted by the Barna Group for the Center for Faith & Work at LeTourneau University shows a substantial...

January 2015

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 13, 2015

Let’s get practical: faith-at-work pointers for pastors and lay leaders

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

January 06, 2015

Best Practices for Peace in 2015: Fight For Peace

This post is part of a Patheos Public Square on best practices for peace. Though Rev. Hall...

November 2014

November 29, 2014

Why we give

By Mike Coyner. This post originally appeared as part of a stewardship emphasis on the...

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 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 09, 2014

From the archives: The patron saint of business?

"Faber's vision of the positive role of business is remarkable. He wrote two centuries before...

November 05, 2014

NEWS: ReFrame has launched!

From our friends at The Washington Institute for Faith, Culture, and Vocation. RSVP for the...

September 2014

September 10, 2014

What might your work give to the world?

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

August 2014

August 29, 2014

Faith and work movement, heal thyself: Christian distinctiveness starts at home

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

August 25, 2014

Three more ways to help the poor

This is a subject our friends at the Kern Pastors Network blog talk about frequently, and they've...