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May 2024

May 29, 2024

Every Vocation Everywhere All At Once

What is a vocation? How does it endure through the years? Can it change? How...

July 2022

July 16, 2022

Not Made for the Harbo(u)r

This post is just a quick announcement: I love this song, I love this cartoon...

April 2022

April 06, 2022

For Southerners, To Explain Why

Place is part of vocation. I am from the Midwest, but I live in the...

January 2022

January 24, 2022

From Epiphany Me to Advent Me

I'm afraid I left you to untangle the lights.

September 2021

September 27, 2021

Songs of Praise – and Vocation

I've recently been watching previous episodes of the famous BBC TV program (I should...

May 2020

May 11, 2020

Ten Things About Work We’ve Learned From COVID-19

Many things most essential to being human turn out to be things that require close...

November 2017

November 10, 2017

What is Our Real Work?

What are we learning from the time when we become the impeded stream?

October 2017

October 09, 2017

I Will Drink My Tears With My Hot Cocoa: A Response to Sarah Condon and Edwin Woodruff Tait

These things can't both be true, can they?

September 2017

September 15, 2017

The Church, As it Is the Body of Christ

Small as a mustard seed and just as fair, The seeds of faith are planted...

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 14, 2016

Why the #election is a faith and work crisis

I've told the story before how a chance phone call from Chris Armstrong in late...

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...

April 2016

April 05, 2016

When God closes a door, he opens….a blog?

In October 2013, I got a phone call from my friend Chris Armstrong about a...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

In praise of ordinary work

Here's a chapel talk by Chris Armstrong, director of "Opus: The Art of Work" at...

February 08, 2016

From the archives: Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Newspaper Reporters. Let ‘Em Be Actuaries and Optometrists and Such.

What’s the deal with actuaries? Whenever a new list of the best jobs is compiled—like...

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...

November 2015

November 13, 2015

Is overwork killing you?

The Harvard Business Review thinks it might be. The truly talented, we are told, flee...

November 05, 2015

Blood and water do not come from a think tank: Day one of #AsburyProject 2015

So it's even more true what I wrote about the Asbury Project last year: conferences...

November 02, 2015

4 Radical Ideas About Evangelism

By Bill Peel (read Bill's debate with Progressive Christian Channel blogger John Shore here.) When...

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...

October 07, 2015

Don’t Search for Purpose: You Will Fail

That's what a recent article in the New Republic had to say about our desire...

October 04, 2015

10 things you don’t know about the faith and work movement

Next Tuesday, October 13, faith channels across Patheos are participating in an event called #ShareWhatWeShare,...

September 2015

September 06, 2015

The number 1 challenge in connecting Sunday to Monday

There is a growing movement across the country among pastors and congregational leaders to think...

July 2015

July 19, 2015

Solving office politics: part 7 of an interview with Gloria Nelund

Read the previous installments of our interview with Gloria Nelund, reprinted from Ethix: Defining financial...

July 16, 2015

How the incarnation and God’s sacramental presence in all creation put our everyday work in a new light

What follows is part of what ended up on the cutting-room floor when I handed...

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 22, 2015

Encouraging ALL calls to ministry!

This post was originally written for an audience of Methodists in Indiana but we here...

April 2015

April 01, 2015

“I Don’t Have a Job, I Have a Higher Calling:” Responses to the #WSJ article

By Bill Peel In “I Don’t Have a Job. I Have a Higher Calling” (WSJ,...

March 2015

March 20, 2015

God is abundantly everywhere: #3 in a series

Third in a series of posts on Luther, Lutherans, and calling by Lutheran pastor Adam...

March 15, 2015

From the archives: Vocation, the holy grail of corporate America

Five hundred billion dollars. That’s how much economists estimate the US economy loses every year...