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February 2015

February 02, 2015

[VIDEO] Faith@Work Summit: We have videos for you!

Some great and inspiring talks from the Faith@Work Summit have now been posted--including some from...

January 2015

January 23, 2015

Apprenticeship to Jesus

By Drew Cleveland, originally published at the KPN Resources blog “…Consider just your job, the...

January 20, 2015

How do we understand our work in the light of our faith?

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

January 05, 2015

Christ the carpenter

By Tim Soots, originally published at the KPN Resources blog Being a Reformed Christian, I...

December 2014

December 26, 2014

Joy to the work: the Lord is come

More on yesterday's hymn. This post originally appeared at the blog of the Center for...

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...

November 2014

November 27, 2014

Images of Thanksgiving

By Bill Droel Our image of Thanksgiving Day is influenced by famous paintings, including from...

November 21, 2014

A “Theology of Work” in 12 bullet points

By Drew Cleveland. Originally posted at the Kern Pastors Network Resources blog. This pastors network...

November 15, 2014

Forcing people to seek happiness in the wrong places

By Jake Belder; originally posted on his blog. Dorothy Sayers, in her essay, ‘Why Work?’,...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

Happy Reformation Day and all that: Luther on vocation

What did Luther really say about vocation and craftsmanship?

October 14, 2014

NEWS: ReFrame launching soon

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

September 2014

September 29, 2014

[VIDEO] What does it mean to be a steward?

A great talk on this was recently posted on the website of Dallas Theological Seminary,...

September 13, 2014

[VIDEO] Reframe your life. Here’s how

A few weeks ago we let you know over on the Visions of Vocation blog...

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 27, 2014

For the Life of the World

Your "resource of the day" comes courtesy of our friends at the Acton Institute, who...

July 2014

July 28, 2014

Three things dessert can tell you about God

Besides making me hungry, this recent post by Bethany Jenkins at the Gospel Coalition was...

July 20, 2014

What do you do when God seems absent from your work?

The Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics has been reflecting on that question over at...

July 19, 2014

Will we work in heaven?

Have you ever thought about that question? Do you imagine work is something that heaven...

July 07, 2014

Three key lessons about busyness

We're all busy, right? Yeah, me too. But I was pulled up short a few...

July 04, 2014

What does “faith and work” mean?

This blog, and this whole channel at Patheos, are meant to help highlight helpful resources...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Three things you probably didn’t know about the working world

....according to Owen Strachan of Kern Pastors Network, who recently published a three-part series over...

June 26, 2014

A shout-out to a blog you should be reading

If you haven't paid a visit lately to a blog over on the Evangelical Channel, Cranach:...

June 16, 2014

“Is this not Joseph’s son, the blue-collar worker?” More from Tom Nelson at Redeeming Work (Twin Cities)

Tom Nelson, pastor of metro Kansas City’s Christ Community Church and author of Work Matters: Connecting Sunday Worship...

June 13, 2014

What’s the path to human flourishing? An intriguing suggestion from Andy Crouch

At Leadership Journal's Redeeming Work Twin Cities event yesterday, Andy Crouch winds up his thought-provoking...

June 13, 2014

Rubber gloves or muddy hands? Andy Crouch at Redeeming Work (Twin Cities)

Yesterday morning at Art House North in St Paul, MN, the mixed audience of pastors...

April 2014

April 21, 2014

A book worth another look

Does the clergy-laity division have any basis in the New Testament?

April 10, 2014

Wealth and warnings

Is money really the root of all evil?

April 03, 2014

What the Image of God Means for Our Dignity and Work

Every person is created in the image of God, full of dignity, with unique talents...

March 2014

March 17, 2014

Blessing the status quo?

Let’s not say that the only difference between Christians and non-Christians at work is that...

February 2014

February 21, 2014

‘Wisdom & Wonder’: Two reviews from the Emerging Scholars Network

"One does not need to do Christian science or Christian art to be a faithful...