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In our hyper-connected workplaces with our busy schedules, many of us struggle to find the time and the space to consider how our faith and our work intersect. We long for community and value ideas, but we often lack a clear way to put those ideas into action.We know the feeling. After all, Denver Institute […]

Greg Lernihan
Stewarding His Resources

Editor’s note: This content was originally published for the Christian Economic Forum’s 2019 Global Event. This content is shared with Denver Institute for Faith & Work with consent from CEF. Greg Lernihan is a speaker at “Business for the Common Good” on Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. In God’s Perfect Timing Everyone has life changing experiences. One of […]

Richard Lackey
Capitalism 2.0: The Benevolent Hand

Editor’s note: This content was originally published for the Christian Economic Forum’s 2019 Global Event. This content is shared with Denver Institute for Faith & Work with consent from CEF. Richard Lackey is a speaker at “Business for the Common Good” on Friday, Jan. 31, 2020.At America’s inception God’s hand was evident in many ways. In 1776, […]

Jesus Sampedro
Catching the Entrepreneurial Wave to Reconfigure the Spiritual Capital of a Nation

Editor’s note: This content was originally published for the Christian Economic Forum’s 2019 Global Event. This content is shared with Denver Institute for Faith & Work with consent from CEF. Jesus Sampedro is a speaker at “Business for the Common Good” on Friday, Jan. 31, 2020.The idea of redeeming societies though innovation and entrepreneurial ventures is at […]

David Park
On the Road Again

Editor’s note: This content was originally published for the Christian Economic Forum’s 2019 Global Event. This content is shared with Denver Institute for Faith & Work with consent from CEF. David Park is a speaker at “Business for the Common Good” on Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. Waking Up I woke with a start. It was 2:30am and […]

Aimee Minnich
The Biblical Concept of Gleaning and its Implications for Faith-Driven Investing

Editor’s note: This content was originally published for the Christian Economic Forum’s 2019 Global Event. This content is shared with Denver Institute for Faith & Work with consent from CEF. Aimee Minnich is a speaker at “Business for the Common Good” on Friday, Jan. 31, 2020.As faith-driven impact investing grows, so too does the confusion about how […]

Jeff Haanen
5 Things We’re Celebrating from 2019

As another year comes to an end, it’s easy to hustle through the holidays and focus on plans for the year ahead. While we’re busy looking forward to 2020, we also want to celebrate the work accomplished this year. Here are five things we’re celebrating from 2019: 11,450 Downloads of The Faith & Work Podcast […]

Becker Polverini
Privacy’s Deathblow: 5G, AI, and the Believer’s Response

Editor’s note: This content was originally published for the Christian Economic Forum’s 2019 Global Event. This content is shared with Denver Institute for Faith & Work with consent from CEF.Artificial intelligence (AI) stands in the midst of a renaissance. Once underfunded and haunted by failed, grandiose claims of all-powerful machines,1 AI has transformed into the hot technology […]

Luke Rousch
Creative Destruction and Work as Transformation

Editor’s note: This content was originally published for the Christian Economic Forum’s 2019 Global Event. This content is shared with Denver Institute for Faith & Work with consent from CEF.Joseph Schumpeter, a prominent economist in the mid-20th century, devoted his life work to the study of capitalism. According to Schumpeter, the “gale of creative destruction” describes the […]

Jeff Haanen
Reimagining Retirement

Editor’s note: This article was original published by The Lausanne Movement. It is shared with permission.Greg Haanen recently turned 65 and retired from a career selling print advertising. For over 14 years, he lived in Minneapolis, while his wife Gayle ran Interlachen Inn, a small restaurant in Alexandria, Minnesota. Having lived apart from her for […]

Katherine Leary Alsdorf
Work: A Way to Love Our Neighbor

Editor’s note: This content was originally published for the Christian Economic Forum’s 2019 Global Event. This content is shared with Denver Institute for Faith & Work with consent from CEF.In Every Good Endeavor, Keller and Alsdorf talk about work as an act of loving your neighbor.1 Drawing on the insights of Luther, Sayers, De Koster, […]

Jeff Haanen
NPR Isn’t the Only Place to Donate Your Car

I arrived at the car repair shop hopeful, only to get the dire news. The total repair for my 2006 Subaru Forester would cost $3,300. The Kelley Blue Book value? Well, let’s say that the cost of repairs far exceeded the total value of my beloved Subaru.What to do? As I started shopping for a new […]