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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 […]
Forever 21: Quite the Opposite of Faith/Work Integration

At Denver Institute for Faith & Work, we spend quite a bit of time talking about faith/work integration. But what does faith/work disintegration look like? Disintegrate: To separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness, break up or deteriorate.  Here’s an example. Forever 21 is a clothing store focused on teens. If you look closely […]
Banks Benitez
Connecting the Invisible Spirit of God with the Work of Our Hands

I’m an entrepreneur and I help lead a secular organization based in Five Points here in Denver called Uncharted. We help entrepreneurs scale for-profit businesses that are addressing major social and environmental issues.Uncharted matches entrepreneurs with mentors and leads workshops on topics like sales, marketing, and financial modeling. We invest in the companies and do everything […]
Drew Yancey
The Entrepreneur’s Most Important Parable

Lean. Agile. Scale. Strategic speed. Continuous iteration. Fail fast, learn fast, grow fast… And on and on and on. These are just some of the buzzwords that dominate entrepreneurial culture, and they are an indication of just how blistering the pace of work is for many organizations. So I want to pose a question: Does […]
Tim Weinhold
Church, Culture… And Business

Twenty years ago Michael Novak, in his book Business as a Calling, provided this snapshot of a particularly prominent Christian business leader: [The] chairman and chief executive of the largest natural gas company in the United States… some time ago announced publicly his company’s vision: “To become… the most innovating and reliable provider of clean […]
Jeff Haanen
Calling – What, How, Why

“Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation to be a person – to be fully and deeply human in Christ Jesus.” – Brennan Manning Christians often allude to a sense of calling that guides their lives, but they may mean different things […]
Productivity and Grace

This post was first published on our blog in June, 2013. We are re-sharing it today as a way of thanking Blender Products for hosting our annual fundraiser, “Work Makes the World.”  There’s a simple reason why manual laborers are called “blue-collar”: The color blue, it turns out, hides dirt better than the white seen in office […]
Jill Anschutz
A Conversation about Rap, Race & Faith

As 2016 closed out, I spent time reflecting on the major headlines of the year – not just the headlines written by major news outlets, but the themes that captured my attention and would stick with me in the new year.One of those headlines went like this: “I Still Have a Lot to Learn About […]
Faith/Work Resources for Women

While we were anticipating Denver Institute’s past event “Equipping the Women in Your Congregation for Their Role in God’s Mission,” we have collected a few women’s resources that we’ve previously created that may be of interest to your staff or your congregants. These DIFW resources will give you an idea of the content and feel of our […]
Jeff Haanen
That “Eye-On-the-Object” Look

The world is a distracting place. Email, Facebook, open office spaces, iPhones, and insanity-inducing apps with red pop-up bubbles demanding attention. What would the opposite of a distracted work day look like? Check out this statement by W.H. Auden: “You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you […]
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