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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...

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 07, 2014

“Have I no harvest but a thorn to let me blood?”

Since our last poem in this space turned out to be surprisingly popular, here's another...

August 04, 2014

Work–curse or calling?

That's the question that Christians in the Visual Arts asked a bunch of artists, and...

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 26, 2014

“Who are you,” not just “What do you do?”

The “Come & See” conference this week in Washington, DC was not just a place...

July 22, 2014

Longing, ambition, and the life of faith

This interview from The Gospel Coalition's "TGCvocations column" caught our eye recently, since the book...

July 21, 2014

“Christ plays in ten thousand places”

Today, a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins that touched me about the way God calls...

July 16, 2014

Why work?

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

July 06, 2014

“Are we putting people on a nicer plane to hell?”

Yes--I sat up too when I read that headline over at the Kern Pastors Network...

June 2014

June 29, 2014

[VIDEO] Why life matters

If you're sitting in the audience at a business school graduation, you expect to hear...

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 25, 2014

Does blue-collar work have any meaning?

Today guest contributor Larry Saunders writes about moving from the white-collar to the blue-collar workplace—and...

June 23, 2014

Three strategies to align your talents and your dreams

We love our friends at The High Calling here on the Patheos Faith and Work...

June 20, 2014

Are you a Monday morning atheist?

Doug Spada of WorkLife.org sends us that probing question, and a whole lot of others,...

June 18, 2014

We’d like to pray for you

We're starting a new feature over on the Patheos Faith and Work Channel's Facebook page;...

June 16, 2014

Tom Nelson at Redeeming Work (Twin Cities): Work is not just what we get paid for

A highlight of the recent Redeeming Work Twin Cities conference was Tom Nelson, pastor of...

June 13, 2014

Andy Crouch on why we can’t see the faith-work connection: “We’re missing chapters of our Bible.”

Andy Crouch said something provocative (well, more than one thing provocative) at the Redeeming Work...

June 06, 2014

Patheos Faith and Work Channel welcomes a new blogger

Patheos Faith and Work Channel welcomes our newest blogger, J. B. Wood of "Shrinking the Camel."...

April 2014

April 28, 2014

Are we called by God to our jobs?

How do you know if you are in the right place in work and life?

April 21, 2014

Do all Christians share a calling?

Did you ever think about the fact that all Christians are called to be human?

April 15, 2014

How to find your calling

Your calling is not something you discover, it is something you recognize.

April 08, 2014

Her first, and last, book

"Keegan’s first book, “The Opposite of Loneliness,” is scheduled to be published in a few...

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,...