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July 2015

July 08, 2015

Best Books for Business: How JobShift Helped Me Survive

By Jim Schmotzer; part of a series at TheHighCalling.org called "Best Books for Business." Stay...

June 2015

June 20, 2015

A Faithful Guide to Life and Learning: Make College Count by Derek Melleby

I know you know what re-runs are. Or "encore performances" as they are sometimes called. Sometimes,...

June 15, 2015

Quite possibly the only list of books to deepen your spiritual life you’ll ever need

Thanks to those who sent emails or made comments on facebook about my BookNotes review...

June 13, 2015

Why do you want to work?: Every Good Endeavor by Timothy Keller

In the foreword to Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work, Katherine Leary Alsdorf shares...

June 11, 2015

25 books on leisure. Maybe you can read them all by the end of the summer.

"Summer's here, I'm for that, got my cold beer, got my straw hat," James Taylor...

June 05, 2015

How to REALLY understand the #PewReport: Church Refugees by Josh Packard and Ashleigh Hope

By John Hawthorne I was excited to receive this book by Josh Packard and Ashleigh...

May 2015

May 30, 2015

Reading the spiritual classics: a guide for evangelicals

I'm going to try to keep this a bit brief. I know, I know, some...

May 23, 2015

Faithfully juggling flaming chain saws: 2 books on work-life balance

This post originally appeared at The Well. Thanks, folks, for letting us reprint it! For...

May 18, 2015

Citizenship as vocation: The Good of Politics by James Skillen (and 13 other good books on that topic too!)

"Natural disasters are not the only things shaking the earth." This is the powerful, provocative...

May 11, 2015

Living out your faith in daily life: Ordinary Theology series edited by Gene Green

The Cities of Tomorrow and the City to Come: A Theology of Urban Life Noah...

May 01, 2015

12 books to help us become grown-up Christians

I hope you enjoyed the review I did last week of the latest memoir of...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

4 points on faith and work from Timothy Keller’s Every Good Endeavor

By Matt Perman I’m going through Keller’s Every Good Endeavor again and taking some notes. Here are...

April 10, 2015

How to think Christianly: Storied Leadership by Brian Jensen and Keith Martel (and a long resource list on forming a Christian worldview too!)

This post originally appeared at the blog Booknotes. I can't wait to tell you about...

April 08, 2015

Summer reading (another beach bag list)

By J. B. Wood, originally published at Shrinking the Camel Like many bloggers, I like...

April 07, 2015

Making friends and changing the world: Fierce Convictions by Karen Swallow Prior

Thanks so much to Rebecca Florence Miller of the Evangelical Channel, who let us reprint...

April 04, 2015

Saving the world and losing your mind: Runaway Radical by Amy and Jonathan Hollingsworth

We've reprinted this post from Byron Borger's Booknotes as a contribution to the Patheos Book...

March 2015

March 29, 2015

Something missing: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton

By Glynn Young; reprinted from Shrinking the Camel, fall 2009--and still an awfully good and...

March 26, 2015

No divide between sacred and secular: a report on #Jubilee2015

We'd like to thank Byron Borger of Hearts and Minds Bookstore for allowing us to...

March 23, 2015

Working for the weekend? Work Matters by Tom Nelson

This post came to us from the Oikonomia Network. Thanks, folks! By Michelle Lee-Barnewall As...

March 18, 2015

Why institutions matter: On Thinking Institutionally by Hugh Heclo

This post comes to us from Duke Divinity School’s magazine Faith & Leadership, an offering...

March 14, 2015

A theology of inequality? Degrees of Glory by Jonathan Edwards

This article originally appeared at the Oikonomia Network. Thanks, folks! By Uche Anizor There are...

March 08, 2015

Bringing globalization home: Boom, Bust, Exodus by Chad Broughton

This review was originally posted at our sister blog The Working Catholic. Thanks to Bill...

February 2015

February 28, 2015

Wisdom on our work and vocations: two great anthologies

In modern North America, the question “What am I supposed to do with my life...

February 23, 2015

Fighting evil with the pen: Fierce Convictions by Karen Swallow Prior

Reprinted from The Well. Thanks, folks! Embarrassing as it is for a 19th-century historian to...

February 19, 2015

Good fruit, thorny endeavor: Every Good Endeavor by Timothy Keller

By Andrew Arndt Andrew Arndt, the regional network coordinator of the Kern Pastors Network in...

February 15, 2015

The new inequality? More musings on Thomas Piketty

“Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income....

February 09, 2015

Faith in a rational God: The Victory of Reason by Rodney Stark

(This post first appeared here at the blog of the Hendricks Center for Christian Leadership...

January 2015

January 25, 2015

Bringing faith and work and people together: Flourishing Churches and Communities by Charlie Self

(This post first appeared here at the blog of the Hendricks Center for Christian Leadership...

January 20, 2015

How to help the poor: When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert

This post first appeared here at the blog of the Hendricks Center for Christian Leadership...

January 14, 2015

Farewell, middle-class morality? Capital In The 21st Century by Thomas Piketty

By Nathan Roberts The Middle Class is dying. So what? This question opens A.O. Scott’s...