Laurence Van Wassenhove, a fifty-nine-year-old French woman, has been receiving a full paycheck from her employer for the last twenty years—despite having no work to do in all...
In 2020, I wrote a two-part reflection on how I have experienced God’s presence while serving as a soldier on active duty for twenty years and while working...
The pursuit of knowledge was once a deeply Christian calling, anchored in the belief that all truth is God’s truth. Harvard’s original motto was Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae...
In 1982, Loverboy had a hit single, “Working for the Weekend.” The premise of the song was the opposite of the biblical vision of work and something foreign...
It is part of human development that people from every generation must come to terms with and decide what to accept from the faith traditions they inherit from...
Our God loves the sojourner, and his Word commands his people to show compassion, mercy, and justice toward the foreigner. Citing these commands, well-intentioned, Christians contend that the...
After teaching about the theology of work for twenty years and struggling to truly convey to people the importance of what they do every day, I have found...
One Saturday a few years ago, I got a phone call out of the blue from an old friend that I hadn’t seen for twenty years. Matt was...
At IFC’s partner organization, the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics (IFWE), we like to take some time around the Labor Day holiday to pause and meditate on...
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