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Jeff Haanen
Why Work Is at the Heart of God’s Mission

Almost every Sunday morning at church, as we finish the final songs and benediction (and I prepare to pick up my crew of girls from Sunday School – now four!), I find myself asking the same question: What is the Church sent into the world to do?This is a question that my friends in pastoral […]
Jeff Haanen
What Mary Poplin Taught Us About Being a Christian Teacher in Public Education

In a previous post, I summarized an interview I did with Dr. Mary Poplin, Professor of Education at Claremont Graduate University. In the previous post, Poplin challenged constructivism, shared her findings with highly effective teachers, and encouraged teachers to teach about religion in public schools in a way that is fair and truthful to each […]
Jeff Haanen
What it Means to Follow Christ as a Public School Teacher

Being a public school teacher is tough — especially as a committed Christian. My mother was a 2nd and 3rd grade teacher for 35 years, my sister a middle school math teacher, and my wife has taught Spanish (and now young children) for nearly a decade. Over the years, the challenges for them have been […]
Jeff Haanen
Discovering the Soul of Education

An old saying suggests that educators teach their pupils “reading, writing and ‘rithmatic,” but the work they do, in thousands of classrooms every day, has deeper implications for the hearts and minds of our nation’s students.In addition to parents, teachers often serve as the strongest intellectual and moral influence in a young person’s life. The […]
The DIFW Guiding Principles: A Theology for Your Work

Recently I was challenged by another leader to make our organization’s core values more succinct and memorable. After taking a look at them, I realized I had trouble remembering my own nonprofit’s guiding principles! The key, I started to realize, was that if they were to become anything more than nice phrases, we needed to make […]
Learning Vocational Holiness from “The Pastor”

By Andrew Arndt Eighteen months ago, some friends and I sat in a restaurant dreaming together. “If we were trying to help Christians in Denver think more clearly about how the work of our hands and faith in Christ intersect, and we could bring one person out to Denver to speak on this, who would […]
Brian Gray
Inspiration: How to Pray for Specific Vocations

 Every Sunday, in churches across Colorado, worship leaders call attention to the needs of their communities and the world. Simply put, we pray for what we care about. Do the prayers you offer from the pulpit, in small group settings–or even in your personal prayer life–speak to the ways the members of your congregation labor every […]
Brian Gray
Media, Marketing & Storytelling

How does marketing and communications contribute to the work of God today?Hear how a panel of marketers and public relations experts answered this question at our 2015 event “Media, Marketing & Storytelling.” Panelists are T.C. Johnstone of Gratis 7 Media Group, Eric Brown of Whiteboard, Grady Powell of Openfields, Jill Anschutz (Hamilton) of SE2 and Jesse Marble of  Magneti Marketing.  
Brian Gray
Telling Your Company’s Story

“No matter what industry you work in. No matter where you are on the corporate ladder. Perhaps a different lens to tell our stories, market our brands, and lead our organizations is through the lens of the prophet. We are prophets of a future not our own.If we get this perspective right…We get our story […]
Greatness and Grace

Today Christianity Today published my interview with New York Times Columnist David Brooks on his incredible new book The Road to Character. Here it is in its entirety: David Brooks: We Need to Start Talking about Sin and Righteousness Again The New York Times columnist asks what it takes to build character in a ‘Big Me’ culture. Interview […]
Jeff Haanen
Matt Turner, MorningStar Senior Living (Video)

Matt Turner, the CFO of MorningStar Senior Living, serves nearly 1000 employees, tens of thousands of residents – and his investors. As a young, Christian business leader, he’s had to grapple with the tension of serving both his staff and his investors – one many executive leaders feel. Yet ultimately, for Turner his work is […]
Brian Gray
Advertising, Media & The Stories We Sell

Legendary ad man Leo Burnett observed, “Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.” Does marketing and advertising feed our hunger for more or can it contribute to the common good?Hear how a panel of marketers and public relations experts answered this question at our 2015 event “Media, Marketing & […]
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