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April 2023

April 19, 2023

If You’re Suffering at Work, Here’s a Song for You

Wendell Kimbrough described this song to his Patreon supporters as what the Breastplate of St....

May 2020

May 11, 2020

Ten Things About Work We’ve Learned From COVID-19

Many things most essential to being human turn out to be things that require close...

May 16, 2017

When Richer Weds Poorer

Starting tomorrow, I'm taking this class from Made to Flourish regarding ministering to blue-collar workers. As part...

March 2017

March 04, 2017

What if a university was designed to only produce workers?

I ran into an interesting post by Rhett Allain at Wired wondering about that question. Administrators...

February 2017

February 24, 2017

Cleaning and Cultural Prejudice: A Reflection on Good Practices and Toxic Theology #AshWednesday

By Stephen Milliken Cleaning. Everybody at some point in their lives has to clean up...

February 26, 2016

In praise of ordinary work

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

February 08, 2016

From the archives: Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Newspaper Reporters. Let ‘Em Be Actuaries and Optometrists and Such.

What’s the deal with actuaries? Whenever a new list of the best jobs is compiled—like...

January 2016

January 23, 2016

Praise God for the ministry of people who drive snowplows! #WinterStormJonas

O ye Showers and Dew, bless ye the Lord: * praise him, and magnify...

November 2015

November 17, 2015

This Machinist Says We Need Both Welders and Philosophers, and They Both Need Something Else, Too

Recently, in the 4th Republican debate, Senator Rubio made a comment in regards to raising...

November 03, 2015

“Their prayer is concerned with their trade:” attempts to separate church and real life go WAY back

I bumped into this passage from the Apocrypha (Ecclesiasticus 38, to be specific) yesterday. Looks...

October 2015

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...

August 2015

August 26, 2015

The Expendable Worker: Looking for Hope in the On-Demand Economy

“Low, low prices.” With that motto, a generation ago Walmart took over the world of...

August 06, 2015

The ideal church member

MEET SCOTTY Scotty is every pastor’s dream of an ideal church member. A mechanic, Scotty...

June 2015

June 29, 2015

From patriarch to peasant: how I ended up as a machinist and not a minister

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

May 2015

May 28, 2015

A seminary president sits down with a facilities worker to talk faith and work

By Andrew Spencer There are only two people with permanent, personally designated parking spots on...

May 15, 2015

Can people who hate their job find meaning in their work?

By Trevor Lee I had the opportunity to attend a Leadership Journal event called Redeeming Work, which...

March 2015

March 06, 2015

The work of our hands

So last week we recommended the latest issue of Comment on how the faith and...

March 01, 2015

Voices from the fields: shoveling hog poop

By Phillip Jensen How can I put this delicately? The daily work of my hands...

February 2015

February 28, 2015

Voices from the fields: Baking bread

So a couple of days ago we recommended the latest issue of Comment on how...

February 26, 2015

The faith and work conversation we’re NOT having

Really good stuff in the latest issue of Comment, called "The Work of Our Hands,"...

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...

February 04, 2015

Greed is just another word for fear

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

January 2015

January 28, 2015

The craftsman and her environment: Work driven by an ethic of care

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

December 2014

December 31, 2014

YEARLY ROUNDUP: Our Top Posts of 2014 on MISSION:WORK

Check them out again! And stay tuned for more great musings and helpful tips on...

October 2014

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 17, 2014

Unfulfilling work as vocation?

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

June 2014

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 08, 2014

What does faith and work mean to blue-collar workers?

Recently on the Oikonomia Network, pastor Blaine Crawford pondered the white-collar orientation of many of...