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August 2014

August 03, 2014

Jobs you couldn’t do in the early church. Really.

This comes via our friends at Christian History Institute and their great new issue of Christian...

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 30, 2014

God has been calling all of us all along

From our friends at Christian History Institute comes a wonderful new resource: an issue of...

July 28, 2014

Three things dessert can tell you about God

Besides making me hungry, this recent post by Bethany Jenkins at the Gospel Coalition was...

July 25, 2014

Come and see Jesus

So here we are at the “Come and See” conference hosted by Steve Garber’s Washington...

July 24, 2014

“Come and see” Vocation conference; we’re coming and seeing for you

Today your humble scribe and the Faith and Work channel's senior editor Chris Armstrong are...

July 21, 2014

“Christ plays in ten thousand places”

Today, a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins that touched me about the way God calls...

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...

June 2014

June 29, 2014

[VIDEO] Why life matters

If you're sitting in the audience at a business school graduation, you expect to hear...

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 23, 2014

Three strategies to align your talents and your dreams

We love our friends at The High Calling here on the Patheos Faith and Work...

June 18, 2014

Where is God when you’re unemployed?

Recently at On Faith, writer and university professor Halee Gray Scott talked about what happened...

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 10, 2014

Talented but unemployed? God may be calling you to grubby, unglamorous work

The Creator made us in his image to be creative, and any kind of creative...

April 08, 2014

Her first, and last, book

"Keegan’s first book, “The Opposite of Loneliness,” is scheduled to be published in a few...

April 07, 2014

What you do when work fails to fulfill

Would I have enjoyed whatever I would have ended up doing 300 years ago? Perhaps....

April 06, 2014

The church, faith, and work

The gospel has a deep and vital impact on how we do art, business, government,...

April 05, 2014

What if God is calling me to do something I don’t want to do?

"Don’t make the mistake of trying to force those around you to do what God...

April 04, 2014

The lasting and creative consequences of daily work

God so arranges that civilization grows out of the same effort that develops the soul.

April 04, 2014

Twenty centuries of Christian writing on vocation

What am I going to do with my life? is a question that young people...

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...

April 01, 2014

Work as a means to social shalom

Check out this video from the website of Redeemer Presbyterian's Center for Faith and Work,...

March 2014

March 24, 2014

Poverty and the vocation of business

Is the vocation of business the main support of civil society's institutions?

February 2014

February 21, 2014

‘Wisdom & Wonder’: Two reviews from the Emerging Scholars Network

"One does not need to do Christian science or Christian art to be a faithful...

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 17, 2014

A tale of two hats

God has been at work in his people, in his church, in this land. And,...

January 2014

January 25, 2014

Workplace ethics: reconciling faith with work realities

"No matter where you work, and regardless of what you believe, you also likely have...