Seventeen years ago, I met an unusual college student. I had recently taken a job in campus ministry and we were hosting a back-to-school bar-b-que when this first-year kid walked up and shook my...
The first speech Janet Yellen gave as chair of the Federal Reserve Board was to a group of organizations working in urban...
Workplace ethics is not an isolated issue. It's a matter of character.
When we pay others what they deserve, we love them well.
Most Christians know that they should be sharing their faith with others, that this is part of what it means to be...
Few actors inhabit a character like Forest Whitaker. For his most recent film, Black Nativity, Whitaker drew...
In contrast to the arrogant pride and self-sufficiency that will bring us down or the exploitation of the poor in order to...
My optometrist put a photographic scan of my eyes on a computer screen and began telling me all about the health of...
When we moved into our house, there were holes in the yard and grass to our shins. Weeds abounded. The previous owners...
Don Flow, CEO of Flow Automotive, describes how 1 Peter influenced his conversion to a biblical view of calling.
All week long at The High Calling, we have been talking about storytelling in the workplace. At the beginning of the week...
In the Christian world there’s a perception that we could be doing more for God if only we could free ourselves from...
In 30 Women of Faith conferences each year, Patsy Clairmont speaks in huge arenas to tens of thousands of women. She talks about her agoraphobia: fear of open spaces. During 17 years of anxiety,...
Tips for on-stage interviews that bring Monday work into the Sunday service.
I did a lot of coaching last summer. I coached for my two youngest sons: Elijah and his Little League team and Daniel and his T-ball team. It was a commitment of several...
As we waited for the lights to dim for a showing of the latest Warren Miller ski film a couple sat down...
Give us great wisdom to show others that we care.
The Book of Jeremiah reflects the ever-worsening situation Jeremiah encountered. At various times, he had the unenviable tasks of challenging the religious...
Dr. Sean McDonough, a professor of New Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, talks about how the book...
Is the call to sustainability one we all must respond to? And is there something unique about the call of sustainability for Christians?
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