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April 2025

April 17, 2025

I’m Still Here

Back with your regularly scheduled faith and work snark, theology, poetry, and Tolkien content shortly.

June 2015

June 28, 2015

Faith and profit are not mutually exclusive: an interview

By Bill Peel Henry Kaestner is Chairman of Sovereign Capital, an investment firm he co-founded...

May 2015

May 26, 2015

Giving voice to our vocational callings

This post comes to us from Duke Divinity School’s magazine Faith & Leadership, an...

February 2015

February 05, 2015

Going on vocation. Yes, Google, I said “vocation”

Work is no vacation, right? We have some good friends at Christian History Institute, as...

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...

September 2014

September 27, 2014

Made for more, part 2

Following up on our post a couple days ago about fathers quitting work to spend...

September 10, 2014

Connect YOUR work to GOD’s work and great things happen

Yesterday Leadership Journal's Redeeming Work initiative held the third of five planned conferences on faith, work, and...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

For the Life of the World

Your "resource of the day" comes courtesy of our friends at the Acton Institute, who...

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 31, 2014

How does God guide college students?

Much of this recent blog post by Stephen Rankin, the chaplain at Southern Methodist University,...

July 25, 2014

What’s the story of your life?

One of the goals of the Patheos Faith & Work Channel is to bring good...

July 20, 2014

What do you do when God seems absent from your work?

The Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics has been reflecting on that question over at...

July 10, 2014

What is this blog all about?

This may seem like an odd question to bring up after over 150 posts, but...

June 2014

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 25, 2014

Does blue-collar work have any meaning?

Today guest contributor Larry Saunders writes about moving from the white-collar to the blue-collar workplace—and...

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 09, 2014

Why you should study philosophy, even if you’re a plumber

Recently Scott Samuelson, a community college professor, posted an article at The Atlantic under the...

June 03, 2014

Why do we feel like we never finish working?

This gem from Alain de Botton's The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work came our way today courtesy...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

A bonus post for those of you who celebrate Ascension Day today

What in the world does the seemingly obscure theological point of Jesus ascending into heaven...