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June 2015

June 24, 2015

For This Car Wash, Autism is a ‘Key Competitive Advantage’

By Joseph Sunde “We view autism as one of our key competitive advantages,” says Tom...

June 16, 2015

Have Christian Female Entrepreneurs Changed The World?

By Elise Hilton Christina M. Weber thinks so. She says that Christian women have been...

June 11, 2015

Mike Rowe and The ‘Propaganda’ of Work

By Elise Hilton Mike Rowe, the “Dirty Jobs” guy, makes an occasional appearance here on Oikonomia. Why...

June 04, 2015

Dear Grads: Welcome To Work

By Elise Hilton If you’re a college grad, what was your first job out of...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

It’s Not About You: Vocation as a Means of Crucifixion

By Joseph Sunde As I've noted in the past, Christians must always remain conscious of the...

May 21, 2015

Work and the Fabric of Civilization

By Lester DeKoster The following is an adapted excerpt from Work: The Meaning of Your Life...

May 19, 2015

Dignity: A Dinosaur

By Dylan Pahman What does human dignity look like in real life? A decade ago...

May 19, 2015

Lessons in Creative Destruction from ‘Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel’

By Joseph Sunde Creative destruction can be a painful thing, particularly when you’re the one...

May 12, 2015

How Hiring a Convicted Felon Changed a Business and Saved a Life

By Elise Hilton No doubt about it: hiring a convicted felon is a gamble. For...

May 08, 2015

Celebrating the Work of Mothers

By Joseph Sunde In a stunning video, Matt Bieler strings together beautiful images and a few...

May 08, 2015

Boyhood, the Masculine Spirit, and the Formative Power of Work

By Joseph Sunde The modern age has introduced many blessings when it comes to child-rearing and...

April 2015

April 23, 2015

Workers and Laborers or Kings and Priests?

By John Bolt The following is an adapted excerpt from Economic Shalom, John Bolt’s Reformed primer...

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...

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 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...

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 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 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

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...

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 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 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 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...

November 2014

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 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...