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January 2017

January 21, 2017

Resisting the Tyranny of Algorithms in the New Year

By Timothy Askew; reprinted from Inc. with the kind permission of Timothy Askew. Thirteenth century...

January 07, 2016

Art, theology, and faith: an interview with the editor of Image Journal

The founder and editor of Image journal talks about why it’s important for people...

August 2015

August 09, 2015

How to Boost Your Creativity

People who think they are not creative need to think again. Creativity is central to...

July 2015

July 16, 2015

How the incarnation and God’s sacramental presence in all creation put our everyday work in a new light

What follows is part of what ended up on the cutting-room floor when I handed...

March 2015

March 15, 2015

From the archives: Vocation, the holy grail of corporate America

Five hundred billion dollars. That’s how much economists estimate the US economy loses every year...

March 12, 2015

We only wanted a youthworker….

Where once retailers were strangers, they are now a united group, proudly sharing photographs of...

February 2015

February 14, 2015

From the archives: Working 9 to 5?

Recent research published in The Atlantic indicates that folks in creative and professional jobs might benefit...

February 10, 2015

[VIDEO] Faith@Work Summit: We have more great talks for you!

Some more great talks from the Faith@Work Summit have now been posted. (Here's the first...

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 04, 2015

From the archives: Made to make

Why do we all have "coursing through our veins, the desire to make something from...

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...

September 2014

September 21, 2014

[VIDEO] How do you view giving and receiving criticism?

Today, some helpful words from pharmaceutical and vaccine industry consultant Boyd Clarke on how to...

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...

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 23, 2014

[VIDEO] Ministry in a for-profit business? Watch this talk

Bob Pritchett is President and CEO of Logos Bible Software in Bellingham Washington. Here in a...

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 16, 2014

Why work?

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

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 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 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 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

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

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 13, 2014

How God made us to “make something of the world” (Andy Crouch at Redeeming Work Twin Cities, part II)

Redeeming Work Twin Cities was full of pleasant surprises for me. For one thing, I’m...

April 2014

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 21, 2014

The best kind of redistribution

Is your community waiting for enterpreneurship like this?

April 21, 2014

Do you need resources? Of course you do

Resources for understanding God and influencing culture.

April 15, 2014

How to find your calling

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