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June 2015

June 17, 2015

A “Vocation” Is Not an Excuse for Theft

Student loan debt is a problem. It's becoming a public health crisis (economically speaking). It's...

June 09, 2015

Malestrom: Why Egalitarian-Minded Evangelicals Don’t Have to Chuck the Bible

Outside evangelical circles, the Bible is largely seen as either a primary cause of patriarchy...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

How Much Openness Can We Afford?

I hate writing the academic integrity paragraph on my syllabus. I have to name all...

May 26, 2015

Costly Competence?

A new study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggests that competent people...

May 08, 2015

Misdiagnosing the Disease of Mother’s Day

Given how ruthlessly mothers' hard, good, important work is devalued and discounted in society, and...

May 06, 2015

Liturgy: The Work of the Church

Note: This post is part of the Public Square series on rites of passage. Read...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

5 Ways to Breathe Life into Workplace Conflicts: Do Not Embarrass Your Mother

Often, a failure of workplace ethics is a failure of shame--a failure to be ashamed...

April 27, 2015

Holy Gossip: Taming the Tongue while Telling Our Stories

Refraining from idle and malicious gossip can keep good will from being destroyed, can keep...

April 22, 2015

Thank you, Jesus, for phlebotomists.

My youngest son had to have blood drawn today. I was more distressed by this...

April 18, 2015

(Un)Professionalism and the “Vet of the Year”

The professions--I use the word in its technical sense--carry with them an expectation of virtue,...

April 14, 2015

5 Ways to Breathe Life into Workplace Conflicts: Garbagemen are Cooler than You

No matter what your claims to status, power, self-worth, or superiority, remember that garbage collectors...

April 10, 2015

5 Ways to Breathe Life into Workplace Conflicts: Outrunning the Law is a Good Thing

Taking a deep breath and asking yourself, "How can I go beyond the bare minimum...

April 05, 2015

On Not Poking Fun at Visitors on Easter

One thing was missing from our celebration this morning that I didn't miss one bit....

April 01, 2015

Breathing Life into Workplace Conflicts, Part II: Money Doesn’t Exist

Workplace interactions would go a lot better if people realized that money doesn't exist.

March 2015

March 28, 2015

No Gender Discrimination Here. Nope.

It's easy enough for a business to content itself with discovering plausible justifications for its...

March 23, 2015

5 Ways to Breathe Life into Workplace Conflicts: People are People

While this sounds too spectacularly obvious to need saying, it seems to need saying all...

March 21, 2015

Retailing Ethics

At some point, white people in leadership roles will have to learn to be a...

March 17, 2015

Home, Work, and Homework

This is a blog about living out the gospel while at work. Unfortunately, the blogger...