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September 2022

September 05, 2022

From His Own Fullness All He Takes Away

We were all deprived of the Way of Affirmation for over two years - the...

September 02, 2020

The Summer of the Dryer Ball

There is no logical, or sacramental, or doctrinal connection between the persistent dryer ball that...

April 2020

April 01, 2020

I Want to Bless People. In Person.

It cut me like a knife with the imperfection of it all - not the...

March 2018

March 31, 2018

Three Conversations (or is that conversions?) #HolyWeek

No crown without cold coffee and the cross.

December 2017

December 29, 2017

Life: It’s An Embodied Kind of Thing

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

April 2017

April 30, 2017

Meditation, Dentistry, and the Entrepreneur

By Timothy Askew; reprinted from Inc. with the kind permission of Timothy Askew. Johnny Depp...

February 2017

February 08, 2017

Why we need a new theology of work

Excellent points about work and faith made by Jonathan Malesic here recently: American workers put in...

December 2016

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...

November 2016

November 17, 2016

There’s work to do; or, An open letter to my children

Some may shake their heads in disapproval or approval of the election results, but the...

October 2016

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 26, 2016

All Day Long

Following Jesus is an all-day, every-day journey of discovery. Every day. All day long.

July 2016

July 26, 2016

Don’t Shrink the Church or the Gospel

By Mike Coyner Acts Chapter 20 records that Paul gathered the leaders of the church...

July 13, 2016

This Matters: Response to the Shootings and a Call to Stay Engaged

By David Spickard People have been asking me how I’m reacting to all that’s going...

June 2016

June 13, 2016

Congratulations, Michael Coyner!

Bishop Michael Coyner of the Indiana Area of the United Methodist Church, whose reflections you...

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...

March 06, 2016

The History and Future of the Faith and Work Movement

By Adam Joyce This year, the Oikonomia Network’s annual faculty retreat featured provocative and stimulating...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

Can your work be worship….

....even if you work on a construction site? RightNow Media thinks so: For more, check...

November 2015

November 16, 2015

Praying for Paris and More

By Mike Coyner The terrible events of this past weekend in Paris remind us to...

November 12, 2015

Are you a functional atheist?

By Mike Coyner Last week during our Learning Forum for active UM bishops, I heard...

September 2015

September 11, 2015

A moment of silence for 9/11

I found this picture and thought you all might like to see it today. "Eternal...

July 2015

July 12, 2015

What would Francis Asbury have done when faced with the #PewReport ?

Thanks to Christian History Institute for letting me reprint this. If you get CHI’s daily...

June 2015

June 06, 2015

How to Pray for Specific Vocations

By Joanna Meyer; reprinted from the website of the Denver Institute for Faith and Work....

February 2015

February 27, 2015

Pick your palm tree

This post comes to us from The Well. Thanks, folks! By Heather Ardrey There are...

November 2014

November 27, 2014

Images of Thanksgiving

By Bill Droel Our image of Thanksgiving Day is influenced by famous paintings, including from...

November 07, 2014

Seeing purpose in the mundane

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

October 2014

October 02, 2014

Ways to pray at work (or on the bus, or….)

One thing I've learned being your humble scribe is that a lot of you want...

June 2014

June 18, 2014

We’d like to pray for you

We're starting a new feature over on the Patheos Faith and Work Channel's Facebook page;...

April 2014

April 15, 2014

How to find your calling

Your calling is not something you discover, it is something you recognize.