What Ignites Your Inner Work?
Confession: I’m not a Swiftie. I’ve never listened to a Taylor Swift album in its entirety. In truth, I know only one of her songs–just the first line of the chorus, actually.
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Resurrection at Work
When was the last time you saw a resurrection at work? If you work in the medical field, maybe you’ve seen someone brought back to life. Most of us don’t get to see that sort of miracle unless we’re binge-watching the latest TV medical drama. But if we looked carefully, intentionally, perhaps we’d see resurrection all around us.
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Episode 58: The Power of Hospitality
Over 15 million people in the United States work in the hospitality industry today. You may not typically think of working in hospitality as a particularly powerful job, but this work holds great power when we connect it to God’s hospitality and God’s powerful welcome to all people.
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Women and Men Leading Together: A Biblical Study
I have been working full-time for almost four decades. During this time, I have had a variety of close working relationships with women, in…
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What is Entrepreneurship?
Recently, I was chatting with a client of mine who was a few years into resurrecting an organization that had nearly fizzled out under…
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Beyond Sexual Harassment: Dignity
Stories of sexual harassment continue to get top billing in the news. It seems that each day another prominent man—a leader in government, entertainment,…
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Why Passion Isn’t the Holy Grail of Work
I graduated seminary in 2011, on the heels of the Great Recession. Very few companies were hiring. In fact, many were laying people off….
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Truth in the Workplace: A Story of Resistance
When I was the Senior Pastor of Irvine Presbyterian Church, a woman from my congregation – I’ll call her Rochelle – made an appointment…
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Sheroes of the Faith: What We Can Learn About Creative Resistance
“But the Midwives feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them.” (Ex. 1: 17) Two women face an ethical…
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Gender Discrimination at Work: Faithful Resistance
I was on a panel recently that opened up with this question: As a woman, what are some of the ways you’ve been discriminated…
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Calling All Deborahs
Calling for Deborah: Investing and encouraging women leaders in the workplace It had been twenty years. Twenty years of Canaanite oppression Twenty years that…
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Women at Work: a Round Table Conversation
Michaela: What I would love to try to have here are the conversations that I feel like I’m having naturally with people everywhere right…
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Theology and Practice: Empowering Women at Work
Mark: We were asked by some really strong, competent women to have this conversation about women, work, and church and how we contribute to their…
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