Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Home
Careers, Workplace and Religion

Meaning

Select a Category Art Audio posts Bible and Work Book Review Books Budgeting Calling Common Good Community Development Conferences Discipleship Economics Entrepreneurship Ethics Faith and Family Faith and the Marketplace Faith and the Workplace faith and work History of Work and Vocation Leadership Local Church Meaning New Blogger News Prayer Relationships Seminaries Theology of Work Uncategorized Video posts Vocation Worship Resources

Select a Month April 2026 October 2025 September 2025 July 2025 April 2025 January 2025 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 May 2024 March 2024 February 2024 December 2023 November 2023 August 2023 July 2023 April 2023 January 2023 December 2022 November 2022 September 2022 August 2022 July 2022 May 2022 April 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 September 2021 August 2021 June 2021 May 2021 March 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020 November 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 May 2020 April 2020 March 2020 January 2020 December 2019 October 2019 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 April 2018 March 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013

December 2015

December 15, 2015

Paralyzed by Grace? What We Can Learn From Monastic Discipline

Adapted from Grateful to the Dead. We wonder today why we are spiritually anemic....

December 11, 2015

Advent and the grace of delayed gratification

By Christopher Edmonston In our world of instant delivery and fast passes, the countercultural...

November 2015

November 26, 2015

Now Thank We All Our God #Thanksgiving

Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices, Who wondrous things...

November 19, 2015

When I’m 85: A Journey With Dr. John Perkins

By David Spickard: published at the Jobs for Life blog on 11 On an unseasonably...

November 18, 2015

What do you do when your idealism crumbles?

‘ "Once you come to know the world -- truly come to know the world...

November 16, 2015

Praying for Paris and More

By Mike Coyner The terrible events of this past weekend in Paris remind us to...

November 13, 2015

Is overwork killing you?

The Harvard Business Review thinks it might be. The truly talented, we are told, flee...

November 11, 2015

A prayer and a poem for #VeteransDay

(or, as my British relatives call it, Remembrance Day...) Almighty God, we commend to your...

November 01, 2015

For #allsaints: the ultimate goal of our faith and work

For all the saints, who from their labors rest, Who Thee by faith before the...

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 30, 2015

Yearning for soul

In a culture where technology is starving our souls, Christian institutions ought to be ready...

October 28, 2015

Follow my passion where, exactly?

This post originally appeared at OnFaith. Ask Laura appears every Tuesday at and features responses...

October 24, 2015

Riverdance Changed My Life: Or, How I Learned to Love Being Bored

By Jordan Dillon Riverdance changed my life. Yes, THAT Riverdance: the gazelle-leaping, non-arm-swinging, inexplicably line-segmented,...

October 21, 2015

Why culture-shapers are at the center of what God is doing

By Christ John Otto Every 500 years Western Civilization goes through a shift. These shifts...

October 20, 2015

3 Signs We’ve Made Work an Idol

I think we were arguing about asparagus. I had just sat down to dinner with...

October 19, 2015

The Two Messengers

Originally published at Ithilien. Perhaps to the clear-eyed angel There was nothing in the word...

October 09, 2015

Sonnet for the Fisherman

Yours was the baited hook that drew me close When I was wandering in an...

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...

October 07, 2015

Don’t Search for Purpose: You Will Fail

That's what a recent article in the New Republic had to say about our desire...

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 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 15, 2015

The sorrows of Mary and the callings of Christians

Today is the day after the Feast of the Holy Cross, and in the Catholic...

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

The number 1 challenge in connecting Sunday to Monday

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

September 03, 2015

NEWS: World-Renowned Artist Makoto Fujimura to Join Leadership of Fuller Seminary

Here's a press release we got today from our friends at Fuller! Fuller Theological Seminary...

September 02, 2015

Sharing stories of failure can give people the power to succeed

Honest conversations about failure help people realize that they are not alone in their struggles,...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

5 kids’ movies that teach us ALL things we really need to know

By Nathan Roberts 1. Toy Story III A spry student could probably write a whole...

August 31, 2015

A New Disney for a Renewed America

There's a lot of talk these days about the fragmentation of American culture. While America...

August 31, 2015

How are movies morally forming our children? We asked an actual 8-year-old

What are the best five animated movies you’ve seen that were made in the last...