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January 2015

January 14, 2015

Following a distinctive call

This interview with Greg Forster is part of a symposium on vocation between the Patheos Faith and...

January 13, 2015

God’s will is as large as a big barn door

This post is part of a symposium on vocation between the Patheos Faith and Work Channel and...

January 09, 2015

From the archives: Blooming where you are planted

"You can “bloom” whether you work in a secular or Christian setting. It’s imperative that...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

New Year’s Eve: Eugene Peterson on Vocation

On New Years Eve, 1868, Andrew Carnegie sat alone in his room in the St....

December 03, 2014

Vocation and Jobs

By Dr. Frederick W. Schmidt, Jr. I’ve been through two employment crises. Three if you...

October 2014

October 15, 2014

A 1949 guide to doing what you love

This channel's been home recently to some musings on the "Do What You Love" school...

October 04, 2014

Which is a higher calling: building churches or building fences?

Here's another post in an occasional series about blue-collar work and meaning that we're running...

September 2014

September 27, 2014

Made for more, part 2

Following up on our post a couple days ago about fathers quitting work to spend...

September 17, 2014

Unfulfilling work as vocation?

A little while ago we posted in this space some musings by Larry Saunders, a...

September 09, 2014

Considering vocation and trusting God

By Steve Harper Living vocationally does not mean living with certainty as much as it...

September 01, 2014

Happy Vocation Day!

Just ran into this neat post by Gene Veith over at his blog, Cranach, on...

August 2014

August 10, 2014

Teach us to want

Today, we're simply featuring a friendly reminder that a great book about faith, desire, and...

August 09, 2014

God has many kinds of servants (says Martin Luther)

This is one more excerpt from our friends at Christian History Institute and their great new issue of Christian...

August 03, 2014

Jobs you couldn’t do in the early church. Really.

This comes via our friends at Christian History Institute and their great new issue of Christian...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

How does God guide college students?

Much of this recent blog post by Stephen Rankin, the chaplain at Southern Methodist University,...

July 30, 2014

God has been calling all of us all along

From our friends at Christian History Institute comes a wonderful new resource: an issue of...

July 25, 2014

Come and see Jesus

So here we are at the “Come and See” conference hosted by Steve Garber’s Washington...

July 24, 2014

“Come and see” Vocation conference; we’re coming and seeing for you

Today your humble scribe and the Faith and Work channel's senior editor Chris Armstrong are...

July 16, 2014

Why work?

Yes, I wonder about that question too. :-) One of the most famous musings on...

June 2014

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 18, 2014

Where is God when you’re unemployed?

Recently at On Faith, writer and university professor Halee Gray Scott talked about what happened...

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 03, 2014

Why do we feel like we never finish working?

This gem from Alain de Botton's The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work came our way today courtesy...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

How do I find Jesus at work?

Our friends at the Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation, and Culture recently posted some thoughtful reflections...

April 2014

April 05, 2014

What if God is calling me to do something I don’t want to do?

"Don’t make the mistake of trying to force those around you to do what God...

April 04, 2014

Twenty centuries of Christian writing on vocation

What am I going to do with my life? is a question that young people...

April 01, 2014

Work as a means to social shalom

Check out this video from the website of Redeemer Presbyterian's Center for Faith and Work,...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Celebrating the work of mothers

In our celebration of work — the dignity it brings, the service it provides, the...

March 24, 2014

Poverty and the vocation of business

Is the vocation of business the main support of civil society's institutions?

February 2014

February 15, 2014

Vocation-driven church

"I deeply believe the church's work in the world, beyond liturgy and evangelism, involves empowering...