Bethany Jenkins on Idleness, Work, and Worship

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary How can Christians love our work even when we hate our jobs? Is there a purpose to work beyond the daily grind? What can Paul’s letters to the church at Thessalonica teach us about faith […]

Kristi Rathbun
Speaker Spotlight: Arthur Brooks

Now more than ever, it is critical that business leaders look beyond the bottom line and begin crafting a future centered around serving our customers, suppliers, employees, and ultimately, our communities. But where do we begin? Arthur C. Brooks, a past year’s Business for the Common Good guest speaker, begins with love. Speaker Spotlight: Arthur […]

Hilary Masell Oswald
Two Fellows, One Big Endeavor: Making Homeownership Possible for More of Our Neighbors

When Dave Umphress became a realtor in 2012—after several years of working with the Navigators, helping college grads transition to so-called “normal life”—he quickly realized that real estate would be an excellent industry to help him underwrite nonprofits he cared about. “For years and years, we gave [to nonprofits] through the income of the business, […]

Lydia Shoaf
Can Good Jobs Really Change Lives?

After struggling with drug addiction, Lawrence Williamson moved from Florida to Colorado, in hopes of making a fresh start. “But that was hard to do with an addiction,” Williamson remembers. He started robbing banks up and down the Front Range to pay for his drug habit, for which he served ten years in federal prison, […]

Michael Arrieta – Imagining a World Where All Workers Thrive

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary How can business leaders help promote flourishing for their workers? And what structures make this possible? In this episode, Dustin Moody and Joanna Meyer talk with Michael Arrieta, founder and CEO of Garden City, about […]

Lydia Shoaf
What is the Common Good? And what role do businesses have in pursuing it?

In 1914 when Ford Motor Company promised an equal wage for equal work of $5 a day, Black Americans, for this and many other reasons, headed north with hope. The $5 promise made headlines across the world, but perhaps lesser known is the fact that Henry Ford himself maintained close relationships with Black ministers in […]

At Work, With God, For the World

What is work for? Most of us spend the majority of our waking hours at work, but, as a culture, we’ve lost sight of the purpose of work. In fact, we’re in the midst of a crisis of work. Globally, only 13% of employees feel engaged in their work. That number is higher in America, […]

Dealing with Business Setbacks: Greenwood Hospitality Group

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary How have business leaders navigated unanticipated setbacks due to COVID-19? And how do Christians in business deal with the uncertainty of a pandemic? In this episode, Dustin Moody and Joanna Meyer talk with Aik Hong […]

Meagan McCoy Jones on Drywall & Leading Teams Well

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary In this episode, Joanna Meyer talks business with Meagan McCoy Jones, the president & COO of McCoy Building Supply. This conversation is full of insight into what it takes to create good work and how […]

S9E2: I Lost My Job: Navigating Career Transitions

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary Losing a job is tough. But what we learn from the disruption and how we move forward is even more important. Joanna Meyer talks with Lisa Slayton, a career coach, about rebuilding self-confidence and trusting […]

S9E1: The Changing World of Work

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary How has the pandemic affected they way we work? What broader economic changes have taken place and how should the church respond? Jeff and Joanna tackle these questions around the changing world of work.  Highlights […]