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January 2018

January 09, 2018

Hospitality and Vocation (It’s Tricky)

How could I know what it means to be endlessly choosing out of a world...

November 2017

November 10, 2017

What is Our Real Work?

What are we learning from the time when we become the impeded stream?

October 2017

October 04, 2017

The Journey: Discerning a Vocation

Sometimes you cross a hilltop looking back and never understand how far you’ve come.

September 2017

September 15, 2017

The Church, As it Is the Body of Christ

Small as a mustard seed and just as fair, The seeds of faith are planted...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

The Gift of Not Knowing

By Timothy Askew; reprinted from Inc. with the kind permission of Timothy Askew. Voltaire once...

November 19, 2016

Empathy and the Executive Sale

By Timothy Askew; reprinted from Inc. with the kind permission of Timothy Askew. Empathy. Webster's...

November 14, 2016

Why the #election is a faith and work crisis

I've told the story before how a chance phone call from Chris Armstrong in late...

August 2016

August 10, 2016

On not knowing what to say

Christian leaders who are obligated to speak out on current events don’t have to join...

July 2016

July 22, 2016

Why I Left (not the GOP, originally, although it could be that too)

I did not think there could be so much noise I would have rather had...

May 2016

May 21, 2016

This is your antidote to decadence: how Christ calls us all to community

Those of us with spouse, children, mortgage, and day job may admire the enthusiasm of...

April 2016

April 13, 2016

The Hope Artist

What God as an artist can create has no limitations, and remains to be seen.

April 05, 2016

When God closes a door, he opens….a blog?

In October 2013, I got a phone call from my friend Chris Armstrong about a...

January 2016

January 21, 2016

Discover Your Destiny

By Bill Peel Do you ever have questions about your purpose? What you have to...

September 2015

September 15, 2015

The sorrows of Mary and the callings of Christians

Today is the day after the Feast of the Holy Cross, and in the Catholic...

May 2015

May 16, 2015

Let your life speak: how to understand your vocational call

How do you discern your vocational path? How do you decide what your contribution to...

April 2015

April 06, 2015

The most important step to finding your calling

By Dan Cumberland She was burnt out. I could see the pain in her eyes...

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...

December 2014

December 30, 2014

From the archives: The top ten pain points people face at work

These come to us from Doug Spada at WorkLife.org. You can read more about them...

December 13, 2014

Visiting with Mary and Martha: What about the work?

By Ann Boyd It's not even 8:00 in the morning and I'm looking at a...

November 2014

November 23, 2014

WEEKLY ROUNDUP: More news to challenge and encourage about faith and work

A Monday roundup of great articles that are worth your time to read, ponder, share,...

November 07, 2014

Seeing purpose in the mundane

By Emily Ann Higginbotham Being an intern at a financial firm has given me incredible...

November 02, 2014

Can you follow your calling by standing still?

By Medi Volpe I should be writing about tenderness. (Apologies @NDLiturgyCenter…) Or I should be...

October 2014

October 19, 2014

From the archives: How to choose a career: Advice from a Puritan pastor

Just because there’s a market for a particular line of work doesn’t mean we should...

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 13, 2014

Need an ethics coach?

We just ran into this column by Gael O'Brien on Entrepreneur's website. While the advice does not...

August 2014

August 12, 2014

What questions does the faith and work movement need to talk about?

A few weeks ago, we mentioned that we're going to be in Boston in October...

August 11, 2014

[VIDEO] How do you handle mistakes?

Professional cargo pilot Norm Goodyear has a few words of wisdom for us today about...

August 05, 2014

[VIDEO] How do you make hard decisions?

Today we check in with J. B. Wood (of Shrinking the Camel) with some thoughtful...

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,...