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Boulder Daily Camera: Moving west for meaningful work

This column first appeared in the print and digital editions of the Boulder Daily Camera on January 27, 2016.  Erik Nelson, a former VP with a large financial service company, is on the hunt for meaningful work. He recently moved from Texas to Colorado to find a job in the nonprofit sector, hoping to discover a […]
Jill Anschutz
We All Want Purpose in Our Work

This is the second post in a three-part series about the 5280 Fellowship, a new program for emerging leaders created by Denver Institute for Faith & Work. Spend any time in Denver’s urban core and one thing becomes apparent: Denver is a young town. Whether you’re shopping for snowshoes at REI, sipping coffee on South […]
Interview with Jack Franicevich

Jeff Haanen recently interviewed the newest member of the DIFW team, Jack Franicevich. Jack serves as our administrator; read his biography on our Staff page and follow him on Twitter, @JackFranicevich. Free tip: His last name is pronounced Fruh-niece-a-vitch.  JH: What brought you to Denver? JF: My plan since high school has been to study business and […]
Should Christians Be the Best Workers?

By Steve GravesTrue or false: Christians ought to be the highest performing workers in the marketplace.It sure sounds right. It feels like it should be true. Bible verses like “Work for the Lord and not for men” and the things your mother used to tell you (“I don’t care about the grade; I care whether […]
Interview with Barry Rowan: Bringing Meaning to Work

This post is related to our upcoming business forum “Taking Your Soul to Work.” Join us Thursday, November 19, 6-9 p.m. as we explore how our spiritual lives can grow in the midst of workplace challenges. This interview is excerpted from Ethix, a publication of the Center for Integrity in Business in the School of Business and […]
Taking Your Soul to Work
An essential element of vocational work is mentorship

By Jenna Ellis This post is related to our upcoming business forum “Taking Your Soul to Work.” Join us Thursday, November 19, 6-9 p.m. as we explore how our spiritual lives can grow in the midst of workplace challenges.  October marked the second anniversary of former Colorado Lieutenant Governor Joe Rogers’ passing. To the world, he was […]
Steven Strott
Intergenerational Friendship

  Take a second and picture some of your closest friends. Now think of people who have served as your most influential mentors. I’d be willing to bet that with few exceptions, the same faces didn’t appear as both “friends” and “mentors.” In all likelihood, most of your friends shared experiences with you in the […]
Obsessed With Work or Just Bored? Bringing the Conversation About Work Across Acoma Street

It’s well past 1 p.m. From my desk I look across Acoma Street and see a woman in her early 20s wearing baggy sweat pants, a cigarette hanging out her mouth, tossing an empty Mountain Dew bottle in a dumpster that’s been parked in her driveway for months. She squints at the sun, as if it’s an unwelcome […]
Spiritual Formation at Work

By Susie Grade There is so much written in the ancient scriptures about our work! Paul of Tarsus said: “Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your work in the Lord is not in vain.” (I Corinthians 15:58) I used to think that my “work in the Lord” […]
God’s Sabbath Confronts Our Success

By Ryan Farrell By the end of the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution was in full swing and demanding long and brutal workweeks from working class adults and children alike. Then Henry Ford came along and concluded that something had to be done. So he instituted a 40-hour workweek for all of his factories — and […]
The Journey to Full Employment

This is the second post in a three-part series about the power of business to transform the lives of the poor. Read the first and third posts here.  This series is related to our upcoming event, Creating Good Jobs for Our Community. Aside from the occasional babysitting gig, my first job was working at Paul’s Place, a now-defunct […]
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