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January 2020

January 24, 2020

What If I Never Catch Up?

What if the world operates in such a way that if we ever try to...

August 2019

August 07, 2019

The One Where Jennifer Gets New Glasses and Contributes to Human Flourishing

Maybe if it wasn't late capitalism I wouldn't need eyeglasses because I wouldn't have to...

April 2018

April 05, 2018

Do We Need a Theology of Sleep?

Why do we find ourselves in a world where what is vain is also what...

December 2017

December 23, 2017

It’s Really Hard to Say Anything About Work At This Time of the Year that Isaac Watts Didn’t Already

For all my gentle prodding of the faith and work movement, there's one thing it...

September 2017

September 10, 2017

The Sunday-Monday Connection: A Labor Day Sermon

By J. Fletcher Lowe; preached on Labor Day 2017 I have a friend named Bill...

June 2017

June 27, 2017

The Curse of Hard Work: Another View

So, if you've been reading this blog for long you know I have a lot...

March 2017

March 10, 2017

What Makes a Champagne Flute Like a Kiddush Cup?

We ran across this LinkedIn post written by a Christian paralegal and thought it served...

February 2017

February 16, 2017

Is the utopian workplace just a ploy to keep us all at work?

Today's long read is from Aeon, and asks a provocative question about whether "tech campuses"...

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...

December 2016

December 01, 2016

Do All People (Even Shut-Ins) Have a Calling to Work?

By Kevin Kinghorn I’ve heard that phrase thrown around a lot: that “all people have...

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...

May 2016

May 10, 2016

God’s Grace Strengthens the Unemployed

Some thoughts on unemployment and immigration.....

February 2016

February 26, 2016

In praise of ordinary work

Here's a chapel talk by Chris Armstrong, director of "Opus: The Art of Work" at...

December 2015

December 03, 2015

NEWS: ReFrame Goes Global

We just got this nice news from the folks at ReFrame about new foreign-language versions...

October 2015

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 21, 2015

From the archives: Disability and discipleship: “God Don’t Make No Junk”

We all are important to God. “God don’t make no junk,” as the saying on...

September 08, 2015

“Emmanuel labor”

By Mike Coyner Yesterday was the American holiday we call "Labor Day," which many of...

September 07, 2015

[VIDEO] Those who love and those who labor follow in the way of Christ

More great hymns for Labor Day--and by extension for celebrating the ministry of all God's...

August 2015

August 27, 2015

Overwork Can Kill You–Literally

By Bill Peel The accident occurred at 11:04 a.m. according to the police report. A...

June 2015

June 21, 2015

The resurrection of the body in our work

By Nathan Hitchcock Note: This article is part of a series that considers various ways...

June 02, 2015

[VIDEO] Work is sacred

The first thing God did was work and build and create. The first thing He...

May 2015

May 13, 2015

Coltrane and calling: a message for jazz appreciation month

By Caroline Cross April in the District of Columbia is a magical time of year....

April 2015

April 25, 2015

Your job is NOT a vocation

By Malcolm B. Yarnell III Today we use words like “calling” and “vocation” in association...

April 07, 2015

[VIDEO] Why is it Hard to Connect Spiritual Value to Our Work?

Scott Wesley, Program Instructor with The WorkFaith Connection, speaks about how our work can actually...

March 2015

March 26, 2015

The year of jubilee

By Keith Reeves Note: This article is the first of a three-part series on economic...

March 25, 2015

I once was found but now am lost?

Those of you who frequent this channel and not just this blog may have noticed...

March 05, 2015

Theology for workers in the pews

A version of this article appeared in In Trust in 2013. This version is reprinted...

February 2015

February 19, 2015

[VIDEO] The next set of encouraging videos from the Faith@Work Summit

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

February 17, 2015

The miracles of the everyday

This post is adapted from a sermon preached by TJ Tetzlaff on February 15, 2015...

February 05, 2015

Going on vocation. Yes, Google, I said “vocation”

Work is no vacation, right? We have some good friends at Christian History Institute, as...