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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...

October 2015

October 17, 2015

From the archives: Working on gratitude

One simple way to help people integrate faith, work, and economics is through gratitude. You...

February 2015

February 09, 2015

From the archives: Christian creativity

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

August 2014

August 28, 2014

A broken brave new world

This week in the Patheos Public Square, Patheos has selected a few "resident experts" from across Patheos channels...

August 25, 2014

Three more ways to help the poor

This is a subject our friends at the Kern Pastors Network blog talk about frequently, and they've...

August 08, 2014

Three ways to help the poor

This is a subject our friends at the Kern Pastors Network blog talk about frequently,...

July 2014

July 29, 2014

Is money power?

A new post from Greg Forster over at the Kern Pastors Network blog asks us...

July 19, 2014

Will we work in heaven?

Have you ever thought about that question? Do you imagine work is something that heaven...

July 14, 2014

How can we bridge the divide between our faith and our work?

Bridging that gap is one of the main purposes of this blog. And recently at...

July 06, 2014

“Are we putting people on a nicer plane to hell?”

Yes--I sat up too when I read that headline over at the Kern Pastors Network...

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 22, 2014

How can you help the poor?

Earlier this year on the Kern Pastors Network Drew Cleveland called attention to the book The...

June 04, 2014

Four ways to help people who are out of work

Ever feel like a lot of conversation about faith and work is about people with...

June 01, 2014

Why do we need relationships?

In a post on the Kern Pastors Network (part 4 of a series KPN is...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

How can I follow God in my work?

Recently on the Kern Pastors Network blog Aaron Brockmeier reflected on his own foolishness. Moving...

April 2014

April 22, 2014

Relationships and generational poverty

One-way giving is no proof of interest in another person’s welfare. Relationships are real compassion....

April 18, 2014

Engaging the culture

How does the middle-class church, with its high production values, strong work ethic, emphasis on...

April 17, 2014

Does the moral consensus on human trafficking apply to economics?

If the church is against slavery, it must be for freedom.

April 14, 2014

Tents, culture, gospel: A post from a Kern Pastor

What difference might it make in our communities if, instead of simply preparing our children...

April 09, 2014

Trafficking and the common good

If you can force me to work – or not to work, as is often...

April 08, 2014

Coming together

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

April 03, 2014

Spiritual formation in the workplace: A post from the Kern Pastors’ Network Director

My preaching failed to cast an imaginative vision for spiritual formation in the workplace. How...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

A great reversal of the church and the welfare state

“The common good binds church and state together. What greater contribution, now, to the common...

March 24, 2014

A different war on poverty

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

March 20, 2014

Connecting work-lives and God-lives

What are some ways in which people can bring their God-lives into their work-lives?

March 15, 2014

Generational poverty: a post from a Kern pastor

The church cannot afford to engage the poor without understanding their culture.

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...

February 2014

February 18, 2014

Lessons from excavators: a post from a Kern Pastor

Every vocation is so dependent on the economy that if I’m going to pastor my...

February 18, 2014

Profit and religious liberty

Our inadequate theology of work and economics has encouraged our culture to think about religion...

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...