Expanding Our Reach

We are proud to serve Denver and the Rocky Mountain region through our events and the 5280 Fellowship, and technology like podcasts and online courses amplify our message throughout the country and around the world. In addition to the thousands of podcast listeners and Scatter users engaging with content, DIFW carried the faith and work […]

Discipling for Change

One of the most common points of feedback we receive from our community is the desire to better understand how their faith informs their work. While all DIFW programming is built to equip believers to live out their faith in their workplace as a way to love God and serve our neighbors, our media and […]

Challenging the Status Quo

In 2019, we fostered conversations around critical issues facing our economy, our churches, and our communities. Jay Jakub, author of Completing Capitalism, challenged us to consider that the public good is not incompatible with a positive balance sheet at “Business for the Common Good.” Dr.s Matthew Hoehner and Ellen Bartling helped educators understand their opportunity […]

Equipping Future Leaders

Since 2016, more than 75 Fellows have completed the nine-month spiritual formation and professional development experience that helps Christians integrate their career and their calling to love God and serve their neighbors. We often say that the 5280 Fellowship is meant to equip participants for a life with God, through work, for the world.As adult […]

Ryan Tafilowski
Recovering Lament: What Should We Do With Unresolved Pain?

What does COVID-19 mean? Well, it depends on who you ask. Before I came to my senses and stopped reading Twitter, I came across a range of answers—from both the political Right and the Left. For some, this mysterious virus is the earth’s way of healing itself by driving the surplus human population to extinction. […]

Olivia Duncan
6 Ways to Reframe the Time: Family Intentionality During a Pandemic

Over the past couple of weeks, many of us have felt the tension of doing our jobs well at home while having your child, a spouse, or even roommates barge into the new “office.” My husband and I have been navigating the awkwardness of both working from home in our one-bedroom apartment. We are constantly […]

Jeff Haanen
God of the Second Shift

The following is the cover story for the October 2018 print issue of Christianity Today. To access the full article, please consider subscribing to Christianity Today to support their work. Here’s an excerpt of the story. Our group was white, college-educated, and passionate about helping people find meaning in their careers. We looked at Josué “Mambo” De León, pastor of […]

Jeff Haanen
Being a Christian Teacher in Public Education

Dr. Mary Poplin, Professor of Education at Claremont Graduate University, joined Denver Institute for our forum on education in 2016. With her wisdom, we had the chance to see and hear what it means to follow Christ as a public school teacher in America today. She fluidly moved between her research on highly effective teachers […]

Nathan Hoag
“Can We Climb That One?”

“Can we climb that one?” I asked my grandfather as we looked up at the undulating trees and towers of Estes Park’s Lumpy Ridge. “Let’s go take a look and find out!” he replied, and we began our trudge up the trail to the base of the monolith. This was neither our first nor our […]

Jessica Schroeder
Does Worship Matter for Our Work?

 At Denver Institute’s 2018 Annual Celebration, we welcomed singer-songwriter Sandra McCracken, who will perform several songs from a recent album that is the first of its kind.Work Songs, produced by the Porter’s Gate Worship Project, offers to the Church thirteen songs aimed at preparing us for and accompanying us through our daily work.But does this […]

Laura Bernero
Pursuing Your Dream in the Face of Adversity

Blythe Scott, a 5280 Fellow in the 2016-2017 session, has a passion to advocate for the most vulnerable in society through politics, policy and the church, believing in the power of God’s people to join him in the “renewal of all things.”Her passions for faith and politics became more and more integrated during the Fellowship, […]

The Way We Categorize People

Many business owners wonder about how to broach the topic of religion in their companies, which have people of many faiths. In this guest post from our friends at Agile Partnering, here is one company’s approach. Co-founding my first company last year was the fulfillment of a dream 13 years in the making.When my obsession to […]