Jeff Haanen
Darius Wise Joins the Denver Institute Board of Directors

Denver Institute for Faith & Work is excited to welcome Darius Wise as our newest board member. Learn more about Darius and his interest in serving with DIFW.Why do you care so much about the Denver Institute mission?I care as much as I do because DIFW’s missions aligns with the gospel I both believe and […]

S7E5: Scott Sauls on A Gentle Answer in Politics

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary How should Christians engage in partisan politics? What does “speaking the truth in love” and righteous anger look like when it comes to convictions of faith? Joanna Meyer and Dustin Moody talk with Scott Sauls, […]

Jeff Haanen
How Should Christians Think About Politics? 11 Insights from Reinhold Niebuhr

It’s hard to find the right metaphor for our current political moment. Are we in an echo chamber with megaphones? Are we, like a nuclear reaction, splitting atoms and roasting all our opponents? Or perhaps we’re more like vikings on social media: we land ashore, pillage and plunder all who oppose us, and then sail […]

S7E4: Curt Thompson and the Anatomy of the Soul

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary What can neuroscience teach us about faith and our experience with God? How can we manage stress at work in pursuit of wholeness and integration? Joanna Meyer and Dustin Moody talk with Dr. Curt Thompson, […]

S7E3: Justin Giboney on Faith and Politics

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary How should faith inform our politics? How do we balance our convictions without compromising our values when it’s time to vote this fall? Joanna Meyer and Dustin Moody talk with Justin Giboney, founder of The […]

Jeff Haanen
Race and the Gospel

The week after George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis, I got on the phone to call several of my Black friends to see how they were doing. One of our alumni from the 5280 Fellowship, a Black woman working for the state of Colorado, shared her devastation. “I’m not sure how to describe how I’m […]

Fred Smith
A Permanent Enemy

Editor’s note: “A Permanent Enemy originally appeared at The Gathering.In his documentary film, “Korengal,“ author and director Sebastian Junger recounts the stories of a platoon of American soldiers deployed to a tiny and dangerous outpost in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. The “grinding boredom gives way to bowel-emptying fear, followed sometimes by episodes of nearly psychedelic blood lust […]

Ryan Tafilowski
The Gospel for our Work

“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.” I still remember when I really came to believe that statement for the first time. Here was the gospel in all of its scandalous beauty: that God, despite all my wretchedness and brokenness, loved me—loved us—enough to stretch himself out […]

Spiritual Disciplines for Your Work

For centuries, Christians have recognized that desires and transformation are connected through spiritual disciplines–habits that open us to God’s already-presence with us so we can more faithfully respond to him with the whole of our lives. We strive toward personal transformation in Christ as a key aspect of both our mission to the world and […]

S6E5: The Good Jobs Advantage

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary What makes a job “good,” and how can business leaders help create them? What is the current pandemic teaching us in the U.S. about “essential” work? Jeff Haanen and Joanna Meyer talk about the advantages […]

S6E4: Chuck DeGroat on Narcissism and the Church

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary We hear a lot about narcissism, but how does it show up in our organizations? What are the consequences of a narcissistic pastor or faith leader? The Denver Institute team talks with author and counselor […]

S6E3: A Time for Lament

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary What does Scripture teach us about lament? What does it look like be sorrowful and hopeful at the same time? Dustin Moody talks with Ryan Tafilowski and Brian Gray about the biblical practice of lament, […]