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March 2015

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 20, 2015

Work Is Personal: Why It’s Never ‘Just Business’

By Heidi Segal Spend half a moment in the workaday world and likely you’ll hear...

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 04, 2015

Sacrifice and Self-Interest in the Marketplace

By Jordan Ballor One of the complaints often rendered against the market economy is that...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

Whatever We Endeavor, All of It Is His

By Abraham Kuyper The following is an excerpt from Abraham Kuyper’s Rooted and Grounded, reprinted...

February 20, 2015

The Wondering Wanderer

The following clip is excerpted from Episode 6: The Economy of Wonder, part of the film...

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 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 13, 2015

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

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

January 08, 2015

The Forms of Stewardship

The following excerpt comes from Faithful in All God's House, and is reprinted here with the...

January 07, 2015

Necessity as the Mother of Innovation

By Jordan Ballor There’s an old proverb, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Life is often...

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 29, 2014

What Are the Conditions for Human Flourishing?

By Joseph Sunde “A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us...

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 17, 2014

Gratification and Civilization

By Jordan Ballor On Christmas morning, millions of children all over the world will race downstairs...

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...

December 09, 2014

How a Shoe Builds Civilization

By Joseph Sunde Can something as simple as a shoe build civilization? I recently had...

December 05, 2014

The Great Exchange of the Magi

By Dylan Pahman On the Nativity of Jesus Christ, Christians celebrate the birth of the...

December 03, 2014

Disability, Service, and Stewardship

By Jordan Ballor There’s a dangerous tendency in America today to view disabilities of various...