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The Problem With Following Your Passion

There is a growing awareness within the financial industry of the need to work with the next generation. But the type of help millennials need is often very different due to their stage in life and financial situation. If we define wealth broadly, typically the biggest asset they have is human capital (or future earning […]
Am I an Imposter?

Banks Benitez said it perfectly. When I was interviewing Banks about his work as the VP of Global Expansion at the Unreasonable Institute, a start-up school for social entrepreneurs, one of his founders shared about what it feels like to be an entrepreneur: “It’s like I just joined the very front of the parade and […]
Bob Cutillo
Where is Your Holy Ground?

Have you ever heard the story of the blind men and the elephant? They all went to “see” the same elephant, but each walked away with a completely different view. The one who happened to fall against its broad and sturdy side cried out that the elephant was like a wall; another who touched the […]
Joanna Meyer
Instead of Leaning In, Try Leaning Hard

Denver Institute was on the move! Friday morning, May 12th we trekked up I-25 to Johnstown’s Candlelight Dinner Theater for the first Women & Vocation event in Northern Colorado.As each registration notification arrives in my inbox, I ponder the challenges that each woman faces in her work. I wonder: How Kathy, a small business owner, […]
David Rupert
Straight Lines: Why Orderly Work Matters

He used a device on a tripod and I had no idea how in the world it worked. That was his department. And someone else was hauling the fence posts. Someone else was mixing concrete. My job was to dig the holes centered where the stakes had been meticulously placed. Digging holes isn’t precise work. […]
Hillary Lum
Taking After Taiwan

As a geriatrician, I am passionate about improving the health and wellbeing of older adults, especially those who are frail and experience difficulties in daily life. As I strive to build partnerships that help care systems and communities serve vulnerable older adults, I’m motivated by the fact that this is not the way things are […]
Joanna Meyer
The Power of Callings, Constraints and Consent

Conversations about the role work plays in women’s lives are tense – both inside and outside of the church. From the debate over whether women can “have it all” or “attain balance” when it comes to work and family, to the perceived “ambition gap” that keeps women from embracing their potential, to the strain between women […]
Chad Hamilton
The Offensive Generosity of God

The parables of Jesus have a way of pulling off the veil and revealing what we really love and care about.  They often challenge our deeply held beliefs.  This is especially true of Jesus’ “Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard” in Matthew 20: 1-16.    Jesus tells the story of a landowner who goes […]
Blythe Scott
Putting Theology Over Ideology

Blythe Scott is a 5280 Fellow in the 2016-2017 session and co-facilitator of The City Forum, an ongoing event series in Denver that aims to cultivate civility by engaging in public conversations about issues that matter. Her involvement in the series came from a longtime call she had to build bridges of conversation and connection […]
Jeff Haanen
Work Makes the World

The following is a speech given by Denver Institute Founder and Executive Director Jeff Haanen at the January 13, 2017 fundraiser “Work Makes the World.” To make a donation to Denver Institute, go to our give page.I’m often asked by friends and donors why I started Denver Institute for Faith and Work in 2013. It […]
Joanna Meyer
Can You Know the World and Still Love It?

It doesn’t take much to tire of the world’s suffering. Whether it’s the domestic drama of neighbors divorcing or headlines announcing a chemical weapon attack in Syria, we witness pain across the street or across the world every day. It would be easier to keep our heads down, but something prevents us from looking away.Why […]
Steven Garber
The Ordering of Our Loves

Ordo Caritatis. Some words and ideas are worth holding onto, especially ones that take us to deeper places of the heart, that ask us harder questions of the heart — and even more, ones that offer the hope that all is not lost, and that our fragmented selves can be reordered, that we can be […]
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