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July 2022

July 16, 2022

Not Made for the Harbo(u)r

This post is just a quick announcement: I love this song, I love this cartoon...

July 05, 2020

Coronavirus Monastery

Sabbath is necessary, and this one was overdue. But the thing about sabbaths is that...

April 2018

April 10, 2018

Being From a Long Line of People Outstanding in Their Field….

....means you may end up contemplating Neville Longbottom and writing this poem. "Of your charity,...

December 2017

December 29, 2017

Life: It’s An Embodied Kind of Thing

Bodies matter. They matter at work and they matter at play.

December 01, 2016

Do All People (Even Shut-Ins) Have a Calling to Work?

By Kevin Kinghorn I’ve heard that phrase thrown around a lot: that “all people have...

October 2016

October 25, 2016

The Christian Call to Work Yourself Out of a Job

Yup. Works for parenting, too, by the way. :) Read more at the Faith and...

October 23, 2016

The Inner and the Outer Voices of Love: Henri Nouwen and His Friends

This post is part of a Patheos Book Club on the book Love, Henri: Letters on...

September 2016

September 18, 2016

Sermon Series: Ministry in the Marketplace

More good stuff from the Faith and Work Collective this week: ideas from United Methodist...

September 13, 2016

The wind, the fire, and the balloons: How Jesus Saves the World from Us by Morgan Guyton

I've never met Morgan Guyton. The closest I've come is that he spent a couple...

September 12, 2016

Making Disciples of Jesus Christ: The Second Sentence

By Mike Coyner Our United Methodist mission statement has a second sentence. Most people seem...

August 2016

August 20, 2016

How is Your Halo?

By Mike Coyner How is your halo? I don't mean the circle of light surrounding...

August 06, 2016

Who is My Neighbor? A Response to Racism

By Mike Coyner During the NCJ Conference last month, the candidates for bishop were asked...

May 2016

May 12, 2016

What If the Devil Isn’t in the Details?

What if if is not the devil but God who is in the details?

May 05, 2016

Dear people in suits: On what it felt like to sit in the middle of a conference center and talk about Jesus

Dear people in suits, if you only knew what we had in this room.

May 03, 2016

On The Road

The veil is always parted, if we knew But where to look, and what to...

March 2016

March 21, 2016

The Cross Before the Crown

By Mike Coyner During this Holy Week we need to keep things in the right...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

VIDEO: Does God Care About the Work We Do?

Words of wisdom from Bonnie Wurzbacher about whether God cares about the work we do....

December 2015

December 15, 2015

Paralyzed by Grace? What We Can Learn From Monastic Discipline

Adapted from Grateful to the Dead. We wonder today why we are spiritually anemic....

September 2015

September 21, 2015

From the archives: Disability and discipleship: “God Don’t Make No Junk”

We all are important to God. “God don’t make no junk,” as the saying on...

August 2015

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...

July 2015

July 18, 2015

7 secrets of success: part 6 of an interview with Gloria Nelund

Read the previous installments of our interview with Gloria Nelund, reprinted from Ethix: Defining financial...

July 15, 2015

A “Windex Cure” for America’s Moral Decline

By Bill Peel America is losing faith and becoming a secular nation -- but I...

July 07, 2015

One of the most strategic things pastors can do

Faith, work, and economics integration is one of the most strategic things you can invest...

June 2015

June 29, 2015

Too big to fail? Part 3 of an interview with Gloria Nelund

Read the previous installments of our interview with Gloria Nelund, reprinted from Ethix: Defining financial...

June 24, 2015

Helping the middle class: part 2 of a interview with Gloria Nelund

[Read the beginning of our interview, reprinted from Ethix, in yesterday's post.] Why did...

June 23, 2015

Defining financial success: part 1 of an interview with Gloria Nelund

With this post we inaugurate a partnership with Ethix, a publication of the Center for...

June 18, 2015

Co-Workers Are Not Projects: Evangelizing in the Workplace

This is the conclusion to a debate in Patheos Head-to-Head and is a response to...

June 15, 2015

Yes, You Can Talk About Christ Without Being A Jerk in the Workplace

This post is part of a feature from Patheos called Head to Head, and is...

June 11, 2015

Evangelism in the Workplace: Is Sharing Your Faith Ever Appropriate?

This post is part of a Patheos Head-to-Head on Evangelizing in the Workplace. By Bill...

June 10, 2015

Playing “Hokey Pokey” with the Gospel

By Michael Coyner My E-pistle entitled "Mission Indiana" stirred up a lot of response. Most...