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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 […]
Jeff Haanen
Why I Started Denver Institute

Dear friends,I am often asked by friends and donors why I started Denver Institute for Faith & Work (DIFW) back in 2013. Seems like a strange (“esoteric” I’ve heard!) thing to do in the evenings while working a full-time job.I generally answer, “I started DIFW because of three growing convictions in my heart about the […]
Should Companies Aspire to Be “Good”?

“There is one and only one social responsibility of business — to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.” Milton Friedman, 1970“We do things for other reasons than profit motives… We do things because they are right and just and that is who we are. That’s who we are as […]
Jeff Haanen
We All Proselytize

“Kelly, what does proselytize mean?”“Evangelize, but with negative connotations.”I had to ask my wife one Sunday night because the word came up in a discussion with a local Christian business leader.I’ll paraphrase what he said: “In my company, we believe in the power of entrepreneurship to create flourishing communities. And I’m very open about my […]
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