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The Journey to Full Employment

This is the second post in a three-part series about the power of business to transform the lives of the poor. Read the first and third posts here.  This series is related to our past event, Creating Good Jobs for Our Community. Aside from the occasional babysitting gig, my first job was working at Paul’s Place, a now-defunct […]
Jeff Haanen
The Expendable Worker: Looking for Hope in the On-Demand Economy

“Low, low prices.” With that motto, a generation ago Walmart took over the world of retail. For years Walmart seemed untouchable; they could consume any competitor with volume, price and efficiency. Yet in the past several years, some have questioned whether the Walmart empire has a gaping hole in the center. Forbes reported in 2014 […]
“Single Mom, Unemployed, Anything Helps”

This is the first post in a three-part series about the power of business to transform the lives of the poor. Read the second and third posts here. This series is related to our past event, Creating Good Jobs for Our Community.One of my neighbors spends her days at the corner of 6th Avenue and York Street holding a […]
Is Our Criminal Justice System Broken?

The Atlantic asks this question in a short video interview of law enforcement professionals, academics, and people on the receiving end of enforcement. While the question is broad, the responses focus on two key components of the system: policing and incarceration. The arguments among criminal justice professionals are essentially that policing is over-militarized and that […]
Helen Young Hayes, Mom / Former Investment Fund Manager (Video)

At the height of her career in investment management, Helen Hayes was responsible to 1,000,000 shareholders. Many women will identify with the tension between working full time in the professional world and longing to spend time with her kids that she describes in this video. A member at New Denver Church, Helen sought God’s guidance […]
Chad Hamilton
A Hope-Based Approach to Financial Planning

Good financial planners know that effective financial planning is comprehensive in scope and the components are interdependent. Like pieces of a puzzle that fit together in a particular way to form a complete picture, financial decisions are interrelated and contingent on one another. For example, the way investments are allocated impacts the amount of income taxes that […]
Jeff Haanen
Why Work Is at the Heart of God’s Mission

Almost every Sunday morning at church, as we finish the final songs and benediction (and I prepare to pick up my crew of girls from Sunday School – now four!), I find myself asking the same question: What is the Church sent into the world to do?This is a question that my friends in pastoral […]
Jeff Haanen
What Mary Poplin Taught Us About Being a Christian Teacher in Public Education

In a previous post, I summarized an interview I did with Dr. Mary Poplin, Professor of Education at Claremont Graduate University. In the previous post, Poplin challenged constructivism, shared her findings with highly effective teachers, and encouraged teachers to teach about religion in public schools in a way that is fair and truthful to each […]
Jeff Haanen
What it Means to Follow Christ as a Public School Teacher

Being a public school teacher is tough — especially as a committed Christian. My mother was a 2nd and 3rd grade teacher for 35 years, my sister a middle school math teacher, and my wife has taught Spanish (and now young children) for nearly a decade. Over the years, the challenges for them have been […]
Jeff Haanen
Discovering the Soul of Education

An old saying suggests that educators teach their pupils “reading, writing and ‘rithmatic,” but the work they do, in thousands of classrooms every day, has deeper implications for the hearts and minds of our nation’s students.In addition to parents, teachers often serve as the strongest intellectual and moral influence in a young person’s life. The […]
The DIFW Guiding Principles: A Theology for Your Work

Recently I was challenged by another leader to make our organization’s core values more succinct and memorable. After taking a look at them, I realized I had trouble remembering my own nonprofit’s guiding principles! The key, I started to realize, was that if they were to become anything more than nice phrases, we needed to make […]
Learning Vocational Holiness from “The Pastor”

By Andrew Arndt Eighteen months ago, some friends and I sat in a restaurant dreaming together. “If we were trying to help Christians in Denver think more clearly about how the work of our hands and faith in Christ intersect, and we could bring one person out to Denver to speak on this, who would […]
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