A new year brings with it hope. Something stirs within us as the calendar resets, as though the simple act of naming a new year might open space...
The season delivers its share of suddenly. Suddenly, there’s another gift to purchase. Suddenly, your kids get sick, and the car breaks down. Suddenly, your work world spins...
We tend to take both work and rest to the extremes. We either see the world glorifying the constant hustle, or we see it celebrating self-indulgent laziness. But...
My workplace is in the initial phases of a major top-down reorganization. There are plans in place to move organizations from our level to the higher headquarters to...
In my quiet corner, hunched between my tea mug and the Velky Česko-Anglický Slovník, I am concentrating fiercely on the demanding labor of translating seventeenth-century Czech. “Oh God,...
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...
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...
On June 5th, Walter Brueggemann, a theologian who has written 50+ books, passed away at the age of 92. A group of Discipling Marketplace Leaders (DML) participants just...
Much of our focus here at IFWE revolves around the meaning and purpose of work. While we believe that our vocations are a gift from God, we also...
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