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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 […]

It’s often assumed that faith is a private matter. Fine for your personal life, but less appropriate in the workplace or public life. Yet time and time again, I’ve seen that when faith becomes a public matter – and is expressed as working for the good of one’s neighbor – there are transformative results for […]

Occasionally you meet somebody that shines with such virtue that you are, perhaps for the first time, made aware of your own poverty of spirit.When I met Greg Thompson during our Thriving Cities symposium in late October, I almost immediately felt the weight of his glory. Before speaking to the crowd, he almost desperately asked […]

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 […]

“What am I called to?” That’s the question it seems most of us are asking. My friend Nathan is a pastor of young adults, and without a doubt, nearly everybody he knows hates their jobs. The question “What am I called to?” is often followed by “It can’t be this!”The fact that 70% of Americans […]

Summary In this episode of the Faith & Work Podcast, we get to re-live some of the keynotes from Business for the Common Good 2026 as we dive deep into the transformative role of mercy in the workplace. Join us as Jeff Haanen and Karla Nugent share their journeys of integrating faith with business practices […]

Business is an incredible force for good. When business leaders of good character and good will seek to serve their customers and team, wealth is created and everyone is better off. Beyond basic ethical practices, there are many ways in which prioritizing the needs of the community—and people in poverty—can be good for business. It […]

Summary In this episode I continue to reflect on the story of Jesus’ anointing by an unnamed Woman in Mark 14. This woman’s understanding of Jesus is more aesthetic than it is cognitive. She longs for the form of Christ, a longing that is founded on her own brokenness. Episode 70 | Brokenness: Hers, His, […]

Summary In this episode of the Faith & Work podcast, host Ross Chapman continues our “Voices from the Workplace” series with a deep dive into the world of healthcare. He sits down with husband-and-wife team Dr. Matt Mahlberg and Cindy Chang Mahlberg, who lead the Colorado Center for Dermatology and Skin Surgery. Together, they explore […]

Work shapes us.  It forms our habits, our hopes and the way we imagine what is possible in the world. In a time marked by fragmentation, loneliness and uncertainty, the workplace has become one of the primary arenas where questions of meaning, belonging and identity are quietly being negotiated. Yet as this research makes clear, […]

Summary Mark 14:3-11 is the story of an unnamed woman who anoints Jesus with costly ointment. If we pray this passage, we are opening our lives to be cruciform, to be akin to this woman’s costly and extravagant devotion to King Jesus. Episode 69 | What the Gospel Smells Like: Praying with an Unnamed Woman […]

Summary In this Voices from the Workplace episode, Joanna Meyer talks with husband and wife Barb and Andy Wood about their unexpected mid-career transition from ministry into healthcare. Andy now serves as a hospital chaplain and Barb as an OB-GYN nurse, placing them at two very different but deeply meaningful moments of life in the […]

Artificial intelligence is advancing quickly, and much of the conversation around it focuses on capability: what the technology can do, how fast it’s improving, and how it might transform our industries. The reflections below are based on questions that emerged during Denver Institute’s Business for the Common Good Conference, held on March 6 in Denver, […]