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April 2015

April 20, 2015

A Market for Disability: Down Syndrome and the Economic Imagination

By Joseph Sunde In a powerful profile of his son Jamie, a young man with Down syndrome,...

April 15, 2015

Wonder Rush – Go to the Limits of Your Longing

By Evan Koons St. Porphyrios writes “Whoever wants to become a Christian must first become a...

April 14, 2015

Is There Hope for the Workplace?

By Peter Johnson Bill Dalgetty’s Hope for the Workplace: Christ in You is rich with stories of...

April 07, 2015

Bring Back Childhood Chores: How Hard Work Cultivates Character

By Joseph Sunde Today’s parents are obsessed with setting their kids on strategic paths to...

April 01, 2015

Why An Urban Church Abandoned Traditional Charity

By Joseph Sunde In the early 2000s, Broadway United Methodist Church had a series of outreach programs,...

March 2015

March 27, 2015

How Entrepreneurs Practice Their Faith Through Companies

By Chris Horst Since the Hobby Lobby case, there’s been lots of talk about what makes...

March 24, 2015

Work, the Curse, and Common Grace

By Jordan Ballor That human beings were created to be creators, to work, is undeniable....

March 18, 2015

How to Find Joy and Meaning in Your Work

By Charlie Self One of our favorite coffee shops when we lived in Washington, D.C....

March 17, 2015

Mike Rowe on the Minimum Wage: There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Bad Job’

By Joseph Sunde In the latest addition to Mike Rowe’s growing catalog of pointed Facebook responses, the former Dirty Jobs host...

March 11, 2015

Does Manual Labor Have a Place in the Faith and Work Discussion?

By Joe Carter Over the past two decades there has been an increased interest and...

March 10, 2015

Everyday Christianity: A Faith Free From The Accidental Pharisaism of Missional, Radical, Crazy, and Other Superlatives

By Anthony Bradley Every day matters. This is the very simple message of what it...

March 09, 2015

Why Gender Matters for Christian Stewardship

By Joseph Sunde “By putting male and female together as the image of God, there’s...

February 2015

February 18, 2015

Restaurant Owner with Down Syndrome Shares His Gift

By Joseph Sunde At 14 years old, Tim Harris dreamed of owning his own restaurant....

February 13, 2015

In Praise of Trade Schools

By Anthony Bradley One of the benefits of a Christian theology of work is that...

February 12, 2015

Book Giveaway: Win All 4 Primers on Faith, Work, and Economics!

The Acton Institute has published four tradition-specific primers on faith, work, and economics, including Baptist, Wesleyan, Pentecostal,...

February 11, 2015

The Beauty of Oyster Farming

By Joseph Sunde The oyster population in the Chesapeake Bay has severely dwindled, amounting to less...

February 11, 2015

A Parable for the Unemployed

By Jordan Ballor The theme of work recurs and reverberates throughout the Christian scriptures. We...

February 04, 2015

The 7 Best Super Bowl Commercials About Vocation and Stewardship

By Joe Carter Contrary to the trite assertion made every year by people who don’t...

February 03, 2015

Motherhood Is More than a Job

By Joseph Sunde I have plenty of hesitations about heeding various calls to “work-life balance,” mostly because they...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

A Challenge to ‘Work-Life Balance’

By Joseph Sunde Upon the birth of our third child, I took a brief “vacation”...

January 27, 2015

How to Develop a Christian Mind in Business School (Part IV)

By Joe Carter Note: This is the fourth in a series on developing a Christian mind in...

January 15, 2015

God Is With You in the Workplace (Whether You Know It or Not)

This post is part of a symposium on vocation between the Patheos Faith and Work Channel and...

January 06, 2015

When Freedom, Creativity, and Opportunity Meet

By Anthony Bradley Thomas L. Jennings (1791–1856) was the first African-American to be granted a...

December 2014

December 23, 2014

How to Develop a Christian Mind in Business School (Part II)

By Joe Carter Note: This is the second in a series on developing a Christian...

December 22, 2014

‘The Gift of the Magi’ and the Power of Exchange

By Joseph Sunde Amid the wide array of quaint and compelling Christmas tales, O. Henry’s classic...

December 12, 2014

Wounding Work: Creative Service as Cross Bearing

By Joseph Sunde In recent years, we’ve seen a renewed focus on the deeper value,...

December 10, 2014

How to Develop a Christian Mind in Business School (Part 1)

By Joe Carter “Why are you going to business school?” my friend asked, with some...

November 2014

November 26, 2014

Pilgrims, Property Rights, and the Source of Stewardship

By Joseph Sunde Each Thanksgiving brings with it an opportunity to pause, meditate, and express our...

November 25, 2014

Blue Laws and Black Friday

By Jordan Ballor Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year, called “black” because...

November 21, 2014

Talented but Unemployed? God May Be Calling You to Grubby, Unglamorous Work

By Jonathan Witt A recent Wall Street Journal story looks at the “millions of working-age men” sidelined...