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September 2025

September 22, 2025

The Social Contract

In this broken time when so much is rent asunder, it felt radical to trust,...

September 01, 2025

Come Labor On

All work, whether done wearing a tie behind a desk, overalls in the repair pit of...

July 2025

July 22, 2025

Not Nearly So Much Like a Mall

One of the things about being an old person on Instagram is that you run...

March 2024

March 16, 2024

In the Doghouse

Does anyone still have a doghouse?

December 2022

December 31, 2022

What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?

There are some things we have had the curtain pulled back on that will never...

August 2022

August 04, 2022

We’re Just In It for the Money

Here was an attempt to truly infuse liberal arts thinking throughout the curriculum and bring...

May 2021

May 26, 2021

Coronavirus Pilgrimage

As COVID slowly reduces its risk to the level of risks I accept every day...

March 2021

March 25, 2021

Top Ten Things I’ve Forgotten How to Use During the Pandemic

Zoom can put lipstick on you. Really.

January 2021

January 30, 2021

Coronavirus Hermitage

Being a hermit is hard. It was hard, as Merton's story shows, even for a man...

January 11, 2021

Epiphany Insurrection

I wish I actually knew how to live a faithful political life in this earthly...

August 2020

August 08, 2020

We Are All in One Room Together, Talking, Singing, and Yelling

You couldn't do any better if you had designed a virus precisely to take out...

August 01, 2020

I Cannot Spread Contagion: On Masks, Racism, and Boundaries

There is nothing that could be calculated to make the exact subset of American citizens...

May 2020

May 16, 2020

My Name is Karen, and I Want to Talk to the Manager of the Universe

We have a desire to create art, to sing and talk and act and breathe...

May 17, 2019

Yes, Virginia, There is Math You’ll Use Every Day

I believe in learning for its own sake as a way of building character and...

July 2016

July 05, 2016

Mortality and the Bleeding Soul

By Jordan Dillon I didn’t know that I thought I was invincible until the moment...

January 2016

January 13, 2016

Even old dogs can make all things new

Editors' Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Engaging the New...

August 2015

August 25, 2015

“Don’t immanentize the eschaton?”: How to be a citizen of the Kingdom

Conservatives are fond of saying that one shouldn't "immanentize the eschaton." What else, I ask,...

August 10, 2015

Is the Sunday to Monday gap more perilous than we thought?

By Tom Nelson “If there is a mist in the pulpit there is a fog...

June 2015

June 18, 2015

“Don’t immanentize the eschaton,” or whether we might need utopias after all #ActonU

More of our “correspondent on the spot” at Acton University! Follow the Twitter feed from...

May 2015

May 24, 2015

Live well, do good, be true

By Byron Borger This post originally appeared at the blog Booknotes. It is from the...

April 2015

April 18, 2015

Christian hipsterprenuers work to redeem capitalism

By Elise Amyx The media has decided that millennials don’t make any sense. For good...

March 2015

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 09, 2015

From the archives: Christian creativity

If Christians are not actively working to transform and develop their world for the common...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

The story of markets and morals

By Bruce Baker In the months leading up to the crash of 2008, Chuck Prince,...

September 2014

September 19, 2014

Money talk from Christianity Today

Boy, if you want some reflection on how faith interacts with your daily working life...

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....

April 2014

April 08, 2014

Coming together

When people think wealth is fixed, they start to view their neighbors as economic rivals....

March 2014

March 24, 2014

A different war on poverty

Nothing but our own lack of imagination and entrepreneurial drive is holding us back from...

March 15, 2014

My daughter’s life is in the hands of the Lord–and the American work ethic

"Many of God’s means for accomplishing his ends, probably most of them, involve the mediation...