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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...

November 18, 2014

King David on the Heart of Christian Stewardship

By Joseph Sunde We live amid unprecedented economic prosperity, and with the promise of globalization...

November 14, 2014

Why Your Job Pushing Paper Can Help Change the World

By Joe Carter More than at any time in the last hundred years, Christians (at...

November 13, 2014

Toil as Curse and Grace

By Dylan Pahman According to ancient legend, Sisyphus was punished by the gods for his...

November 12, 2014

Are Christians in Ministry the Only ‘Real’ Christians?

By Elise Hilton I’ve been following an interesting discussion at NRT, a Christian music website, regarding...

November 11, 2014

All Is Gift: Lessons in Stewardship from C.S. Lewis’ ‘Perelandra’

By Joseph Sunde One of the primary themes in the Acton Institute’s new series, For the...

November 05, 2014

8 Lessons on Work and Stewardship from Disney’s ‘Silly Symphonies’

By Joseph Sunde Teaching our children about the value and virtues of hard work and...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

‘Work Is a Good Thing for Man’

By Elise Hilton I was transfixed by this video the other day. The simplicity of...

October 21, 2014

Welfare, Work, and Human Dignity

By Dylan Pahman A website called Over Fifty and Out of Work offers Baby-Boomers who have lost...

October 17, 2014

Why Christians Should Listen to Mike Rowe on (Not) ‘Following Your Passion’

By Joseph Sunde Television personality and former Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe has become somewhat notorious for penning...

October 07, 2014

The ‘Transformational Quartet’ of Christian Stewardship

By Joseph Sunde “Christian discipleship is nothing less than conformity to Christ—as individual believers and...

September 2014

September 23, 2014

Fatherhood and the Weight of Work in the Home

By Joseph Sunde Mothers who have achieved success in corporate America are often asked how...

September 16, 2014

Serving the Least of These Through Our Daily Work

By Joseph Sunde When discussing the Christian call to service, we often hear references to Matthew...

September 15, 2014

It’s Personal

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

September 05, 2014

The Art of Apple Picking and the Dignity Of Work

By Elise Hilton It is nearly time to pick apples. Row after row of trees, marked...

August 2014

August 31, 2014

Kuyper on the ‘Sacred Calling’ of Scholarship

By Joseph Sunde The church has found a renewed interest in matters of “faith-work integration,”...

August 27, 2014

Made to Trade

By Jordan Ballor Something as mundane as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich has something...

August 27, 2014

Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places

By Joseph Sunde In a recent video blog from For the Life of the World, Evan Koons...

August 22, 2014

The God Who Makes Himself Known Through Vocation

By Ray Nothstine It was Blaise Pascal who noted that, “Jesus Christ is the end...