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June 2017

June 27, 2017

The Curse of Hard Work: Another View

So, if you've been reading this blog for long you know I have a lot...

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...

July 2016

July 07, 2016

We’re made to work

People are called to work, not just to provide for themselves, but to help the...

January 2016

January 19, 2016

From the archives: Good fruit, thorny endeavor

One of the great joys of serving The Kern Family Foundation as a regional director...

July 2015

July 21, 2015

We’re all working for the Pharaoh

More of our reports and analysis from the recent Acton University conference. Read the first...

June 2015

June 02, 2015

[VIDEO] Work is sacred

The first thing God did was work and build and create. The first thing He...

May 2015

May 20, 2015

[VIDEO] Not the same old story

The way that we thought about the Biblical story was that God was trying to...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

From the archives: [VIDEO] God’s good plan

How does the message of Genesis inform how we engage with the modern world?

March 2015

March 26, 2015

The year of jubilee

By Keith Reeves Note: This article is the first of a three-part series on economic...

December 2014

December 07, 2014

Jesus the incarnate worker God

We're returning to our occasional series of posts on work and vocation (linked at the...

December 06, 2014

We were made to work (really! It’s there in the book of Genesis!)

We're returning to our occasional series of posts on work and vocation (linked at the...

December 05, 2014

Getting the beginning and end of the story right

A couple of months back, I was invited to come to the world headquarters of...

June 2014

June 16, 2014

“Is this not Joseph’s son, the blue-collar worker?” More from Tom Nelson at Redeeming Work (Twin Cities)

Tom Nelson, pastor of metro Kansas City’s Christ Community Church and author of Work Matters: Connecting Sunday Worship...

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...

April 2014

April 07, 2014

What you do when work fails to fulfill

Would I have enjoyed whatever I would have ended up doing 300 years ago? Perhaps....

April 03, 2014

What the Image of God Means for Our Dignity and Work

Every person is created in the image of God, full of dignity, with unique talents...

March 2014

March 14, 2014

Working and keeping in God’s “Oikos”

Work alone cannot describe economic activity in the Old Testament. Instead, “to work” and “to...

February 2014

February 15, 2014

What is redemption? A post from a Kern pastor

If we skip creation, if we fail to allow creation to focus our message of...

December 2013

December 20, 2013

Why does the clergy tax exemption matter?

Aside from the question of constitutionality, the clergy exemption raises a question that many people...