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Adrienne Tafilowski Joins the Denver Institute Board of Directors

Denver Institute welcomed Adrienne Tafilowski as a board member in 2024. We spoke with Adrienne about her professional background and what makes her most excited about Denver Institute. The conversation below has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Denver Institute (DI): Can you give us a brief overview of your work & professional experience? […]
Meryl Herr
Angry at the Office: Moving from Hurt to Healing

In my book, When Work Hurts: Building Resilience When You’re Beat Up or Burnt Out, I describe three categories of work hurt: disappointment, disillusionment, and devastation. Like the AHEN model I shared in my previous post, this framework can also help us analyze our work hurt to understand what’s making us feel angry. Three Types […]
Meryl Herr
Angry at the Office: How Paying Attention to Our Emotions Can Help Us Understand Our Work Hurt

Have you ever felt angry at work? Maybe it was last week when someone forgot to reload the paper drawer in the copier or last month when your coworker missed an important deadline. Perhaps you silently brood over the pay gap between men and women in your organization. Or you could be someone who erupts […]
Unexpected Hope for Unexpected Expenses

New tires for your car.An emergency medical bill. Your landlord increases your rent. Unwelcome and surprising expenses happen to everyone, but to the 28% of Americans who have less than $1,000 in personal savings, they can lead to immense financial difficulty and debt. Molly Ray observed this reality over and over in her role at Saturn […]
Abby Worland
Naomi Hartman Joins Denver Institute as Public Engagement Associate

Editor’s note: We recently welcomed Naomi Hartman to the Denver Institute team as our Public Engagement Associate. Naomi and I talked about her prior work and what she’s most excited about at Denver Institute. Our conversation below has been lightly edited for length and clarity. How did you first connect with Denver Institute?Naomi: ​​I first […]
Brian Gray
Faithful Political Engagement: A Resource Collection

At Denver Institute, we strive toward a future where every person’s work brings hope and life to their city. But we recognize that the places where we live and work can be extremely pluralistic and polarized. This is especially true of our political climate over the past 20 years, where Christians are often seen as […]
Jeff Campbell
Aunt Clara Brown: Unearthing a Legacy of Compassion and Strength

Clara Brown’s life story is deeply interwoven with her steadfast Christian faith, a faith which guided her every action and became the cornerstone of her remarkable journey. The centrality of her faith is embodied in her quote, “I only do what Jesus tells me to.” As Clara navigated the opportunities of entrepreneurship, she leaned into the […]
Brian Gray
Is There Hope For Housing?

Is there hope for housing?What is behind this question and why would Denver Institute for Faith and Work be dealing with housing?In our FOR Campaign–a five-year strategic plan we began this year–we are identifying three significant civic issues that we want to help impact over the next five years. Housing affordability will be one of […]
Abby Worland
God Doesn’t Miss Deadlines: Thoughts on Productivity

Have you ever gotten to the end of the day, looked at your to-do list, and realized you may have been more than a little optimistic when you wrote it that morning? Where does the time go? Why is it so hard to actually get things done? I recently listened to the Freakonomics podcast episode titled […]
Eric Most
Radical, Creative Giving: Generosity After God’s Own Heart (Part 1)

It’s no cliché to say that John 3:16 (NIV) – “for God so loved the world that he gave” – is a verse that should greatly inform our lives as Christians today. As followers of Christ, we are to mirror him, and thus we can, and we ought to be, radically generous to those around […]
Joanna Meyer
What’s Missing in the Return-to-Work Debate? Empathy

Have you followed the debate regarding corporate work from home policies? A number of prominent CEOs insist that after more than three years of pandemic-related changes, it’s time for employees to return to the office. ·      Elon Musk (Tesla/Space X) called remote work “morally wrong”·      David Solomon (Goldman Sachs) called it an “aberration”·      And Mark […]
Working from the Inside Out Study Guide

Many today are experiencing social isolation, deep anxieties about the future, and various difficulties in the workplace. For too many of us, work seems tedious, painful, or meaningless. And we don’t know what to do about it.Working from the Inside Out: A Brief Guide to Inner Work That Transforms Our Outer World pulls back the […]
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