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January 2017

January 30, 2017

Can your work bring you closer to God?

The United Methodist Church says yes here: Large portions of our lives are spent at...

February 2016

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...

November 2015

November 23, 2015

Steve Garber on Dorothy Sayers on work

I appreciate a man who not only is a fan of Dorothy Sayers’s essays on...

May 2015

May 05, 2015

A slow leak

By Mike Coyner Recently the left rear tire on my car starting losing air. My...

March 2015

March 12, 2015

We only wanted a youthworker….

Where once retailers were strangers, they are now a united group, proudly sharing photographs of...

February 2015

February 26, 2015

From the archives: Meaningless jobs?

In what ways have you seen others bring meaning to a “meaningless job?” In what...

December 2014

December 23, 2014

From the archives: Work-life balance and working moms

Is achieving work-life balance possible? If so, how?

December 04, 2014

From the archives: The problem with doing what you love

No matter what you do and what you are paid, says Paul, "It is the...

October 2014

October 03, 2014

[VIDEO] How has your work ethic changed over the years?

Today, some helpful words from pharmaceutical and vaccine industry consultant Boyd Clarke, who previously talked...

July 2014

July 16, 2014

Why work?

Yes, I wonder about that question too. :-) One of the most famous musings on...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Three things you probably didn’t know about the working world

....according to Owen Strachan of Kern Pastors Network, who recently published a three-part series over...

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,...

April 2014

April 16, 2014

Work must serve more than the bottom line

Warnings about the dangers work poses often issue from the mouths of those who have...

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....

March 2014

March 16, 2014

A family affair: A post from a Kern pastor

It is a wonder that we bemoan the attitude of many adults toward work, yet...

March 15, 2014

My daughter’s life is in the hands of the Lord–and the American work ethic

"Many of God’s means for accomplishing his ends, probably most of them, involve the mediation...

March 14, 2014

How to humanize the workplace

How can we participate in Christ's nature and see the restoring work of Christ invade...

January 2014

January 28, 2014

Rally point

If we are to continue to win the fight for business survival, then comfort and...

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...