Joanna Meyer
Women & Ambition: Going For The Gold

Carolyn McCulley, is unashamed of her ambitions. As an award-winning producer/director/editor at Citygate Films, a nonfiction film company she founded in 2009, she’s passionate about telling stories that lead to social change. She’s a woman on a mission, yet she understands how complicated it can be for women to navigate professional goals, relational commitments, and their […]

Brian Gray
Life-Giving Purpose

Candice Whitley has always loved working with kids, and she felt her passion deepen as she pursued multiple degrees in education. As she navigated the field of teaching and discovered her strengths in serving students, she felt a strong desire to learn about the greater purposes of work, and God’s vision for that sphere of […]

Carolyn McCulley
Do Women Suffer From an “Ambition Gap?”

Editor’s note: In 2012, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg caught the world’s attention when she claimed women suffer from an “ambition gap.” As one of the most powerful professionals and working moms in the world, Sandberg’s words rattled many women —in the struggle to balance conflicting priorities and desires, was lack of ambition really the problem? […]

Laura Bernero
As A Christian, Why Should I Care About _?

As a Christian, why should I care about _?How would you fill in the blank to reflect the questions you’re wrestling with today? For you, is it race? Societal trends? Pop culture? Politics? These are the kinds of topics that thoughtful Christian rap artist Amisho “Sho” Baraka engages through his music, speaking engagements, and public […]

Grace in Silence

A note from the blog editor: In a recent New York Times article, Catholic writer Paul Elie said about the legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese, “Scorsese approaches filmmaking as ‘a priestly avocation, a set of spiritual exercises embedded in technical problems.’” Scoresese’s latest film Silence is based on the 1950s novel by Shusako Endo about 17th […]

Mark Zuckerberg’s Workplace Secret: Trust

In a competitive world, keeping information close to the vest is viewed as a business imperative. Products, strategies and tactics fall under the tent of “Intellectual Property” and are closeted until just the right time. For example, Apple is famous for secrecy. Prototypes, plans and ideas are carefully stove-piped so no one working on them […]

Joanna Meyer
When a Platform Becomes a Pulpit: Three Reasons I Trust a Rapper for Spiritual Insight

As someone who loves to learn, I battle a seemingly unending flow of information into my life. The list of books and blogs I aspire to read has grown so long, I doubt I will exhaust it in my lifetime. But every so often, an artist’s work cuts through this cluttered list and demands my […]

Tim Weinhold
It’s What Works

A few years back, Matt Levine was working crazy hours as a young attorney at a premier New York law firm.1 On more than a few occasions he would work until 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning, slide under his desk for a couple hours of sleep, then be right back at it come 6:00 […]

Kingdom Movement In The Business World

After initially setting out to be an attorney, Grant Stone worked at a bank in college and identified logical thinking and analysis as two of his strengths. He chose to pursue a career in finance. However, as his interest and involvement in the field progressed, he struggled to integrate his deepening Christian faith into his […]

Jeff Haanen
Care About Refugees? This Greek Yogurt CEO is Hiring Hundreds of Them

Hamdi Ulukaya, the CEO of Greek yogurt brand Chobani, is showing the world – including Christians – how to treat refugees. Since 2007, he has hired hundreds of refugees from all over the world, and currently employs over 300 refugees across his company. In a cultural moment when more refugees are drowning in the Mediterranean […]

Trevor Lee
Rocket Science

Matt Donovan, a member of our church, is a rocket engineer – his work actually is rocket science. A couple months ago, he sent me a link to a video with this message: “We talk a lot about connecting vocation with God’s mission in the world and I thought I’d share a really cool story […]

Rachel Moran
Bringing Light to the Darkness

I grew up as a white child raised by middle-class parents in a suburb so idyllic that it was named the safest city in America for three years running during my elementary and middle school years. After I graduated from high school, I went to a small Christian college in an area so rural and […]