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January 2019

January 31, 2019

Marriage is a Vocation, Right?

In each other we are most our own.

November 2016

November 26, 2016

On work-life balance and not going to the Asbury Project

Some of you may remember how for the last two years I've spent some...

January 2016

January 11, 2016

Your Brain on Poverty: Why Poor People Seem to Make Bad Decisions

We just ran into this fascinating article at The Atlantic (it's a couple years old,...

December 2015

December 06, 2015

The Peculiar Loneliness of the Entrepreneur

By Timothy Askew; reprinted from Inc. with the kind permission of Timothy Askew. Lonely. God,...

December 04, 2015

Challenges and ideas: a report from the first annual National Faith and Work Association Meeting

By Mikel Del Rosario A Report from the National Faith and Work Association Inaugural Annual...

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?

January 2015

January 22, 2015

John McKnight: Low-income communities are not needy — they have assets

This interview comes to us from Duke Divinity School's blog Faith & Leadership, an offering...

January 06, 2015

Best Practices for Peace in 2015: Fight For Peace

This post is part of a Patheos Public Square on best practices for peace. Though Rev. Hall...

January 01, 2015

Best Practices for Peace in 2015: Create peace through your conflicts

This post is part of a Patheos Public Square on best practices for peace. You...

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...

July 2014

July 11, 2014

Dear God, please help me choose a major

I remembered my own struggles with that very question when I read a recent article...

July 09, 2014

Mental health: an economic issue, not just a health issue

Recently Danielle Kurtzleben had this to say for online publisher Vox Media about mental health and the economy: Only a...

June 2014

June 24, 2014

Can you really trust anyone over 30?

A little while ago James K. A. Smith wrote these words on the website of Comment...

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 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 05, 2014

Listen to a banker talk about serving God in her work

Recently, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's The Well website, a ministry for graduate and professional women, sat down...

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 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...

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 30, 2014

How do I find Jesus at work?

Our friends at the Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation, and Culture recently posted some thoughtful reflections...

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...

March 2014

March 15, 2014

Generational poverty: a post from a Kern pastor

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