Dustin Moody
Shaping Student Character

Julia Mauro is an elementary school teacher at a Title 1 school in the Adams-12 school district, and a recent 5280 Fellowship alumna. We talked with her about the 5280 Fellowship professional project: identifying an area of brokenness in her field or industry, and developing a plan to address it. For her professional project, Julia […]

Catherine Sandgren
Highlights from Work + Worship

On Wednesday, June 16th, 2021, Denver Institute and Park Church hosted Work + Worship: An Interactive Worship Experience. Guest speaker Dr. Matthew Kaemingk presented the findings from his most recent book, Work & Worship: Reconnecting Our Labor and Liturgy, and provided practical tools for integrating our daily work into our Sunday worship.  On Thursday, June […]

Dustin Moody
Listening Well and Looking Ahead

For the past nine years, Denver Institute has served a faithful and growing community of believers who are loving God, their neighbors, and society through their work. Even though much has changed over the past decade, our guiding principles and central questions remain the same:What does it look like to be a Christian in a […]

How to Have Humble Confidence in the Age of the Personal Brand

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary How can Christians promote their skills and experience to employers in a thoughtful and confident way? In this episode, Joanna Meyer talks with Jena Viviano Denay, a career strategist, who founded Recruit the Employer. Together […]

How to Overcome the Limiting Beliefs about Your Work

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary What are limiting beliefs and how do they affect my work? In this episode, Joanna Meyer talks with Charlena Ortiz, a life & business coach, writer, and the founder of Grit & Virtue. Together they […]

The Work of Fathering

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary What does it look like to lean into the work of fathering? This important work of parenting often eludes the public eye, but its impact is immeasurable. In this episode, Joanna Meyer and Dustin Moody […]

Jeff Haanen
The Pearl of Vocation: Why I Bring My Whole Self to Work, Including My Faith

When I was in elementary school, my mother took my older sister and I to Lake Itasca State Park for summer vacation, located in the cool northern woods of Minnesota. A life-long teacher, she would glory in making the outdoor visit into a lesson: spotting the diving loons in search of breakfast, explaining the history […]

Hilary Masell Oswald
Loving Indianapolis by Feeding Hungry Kids: One Circle City Fellow’s Story

One evening last spring, in the early weeks of the COVID-19 lockdowns, a small group of faithful men and women in Indianapolis were chatting over Zoom. Part of the inaugural Circle City Fellows—a professional development and spiritual formation fellowship designed for early-career adults in Indianapolis—the small cohort had grown accustomed to lively, rich conversation about […]

Catherine Sandgren
5 Ways to Integrate Our Faith & Work

The Christian life is one of constantly receiving and returning, and from this exchange we are deeply formed. One touchpoint where we encounter this exchange is in places of corporate worship. In Matt Kaemingk’s most recent book, Work and Worship: Reconnecting Our Labor and Liturgy, Kaemingk discusses the concept of bringing to the communion table […]

Ryan Tafilowski
“Weekending” for the Work: Connecting Work and Worship

What makes a human being a human being? Is it that we are homo sapiens — sophisticated animals with the capacity for abstract reasoning and complex language? Or are we homo faber — creators of culture, builders of civilizations and empires?Yes. No. Both.It’s not that these characterizations of human beings are wrong, exactly, but they […]

The Science & Spirit of Calling

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary What do Christians mean when they talk about “calling”? How do we discern what ours is and how do we implement it into our lives? In today’s conversation, Joanna Meyer and Brian Gray talk with […]

Brian Gray
Your Turn: Giving Thanks

I will give thanks to you, LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds. PSALM 9:1 Start listening to conversations between friends and coworkers about their work. Are those conversations more characterized by frustration and complaining or celebration and gratitude? For most, we’ll more quickly see and lament what is […]