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Dustin Moody
Lisa Slayton Joins Denver Institute to Lead the Expansion of the 5280 Fellowship

Lisa Slayton, former CEO of the Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation, has joined Denver Institute to help expand the 5280 Fellowship to new cities. The 5280 Fellowship is a nine month intensive program in spiritual formation, professional development, and civic leadership for early to mid-career professionals. The new initiative will be called CityGate, the Old Testament center […]
Joanna Meyer
Image & Identity

Recently I discovered an Instagram account that has become the most horrifying, life-giving part of my day. @danaemercer is a journalist and eating disorder survivor whose goal is to “help people feel normal” by reminding women why they should never compare themselves to someone online. Mercer reveals the tricks social media influencers use to create […]
Ryan Tafilowski
Politics at Twilight

The quest for ideological purity is badly disrupting our common life, in part because it is feeding our rapidly accelerating trend toward polarization. The demand is now not simply general support of a party platform, perhaps with some qualms, but total and pristine ideology—and that goes for both the Right and the Left. This is […]
Joanna Meyer
Worthy: DIFW Book Club September 2020

This September, join us for a virtual book club as we read and explore Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women. Elyse Fitzpatrick and Eric Schumacher highlight the role of women throughout Scripture, from the Creation story in Genesis through the growth of the church in the New Testament to the gifts women bring to life […]
Jeff Haanen
How Should Christians Think About Politics? 11 Insights from Reinhold Niebuhr

It’s hard to find the right metaphor for our current political moment. Are we in an echo chamber with megaphones? Are we, like a nuclear reaction, splitting atoms and roasting all our opponents? Or perhaps we’re more like vikings on social media: we land ashore, pillage and plunder all who oppose us, and then sail […]
Bill Haslam
Public Office as a Spiritual Discipline

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on Jan. 11, 2019 in Comment, a publication of CARDUS: www.cardus.ca. Read the full version in Comment.Today, many Christians on both sides of the aisle seem to have come to the conclusion that Machiavelli was right. They’ve concluded we have to choose between being faithful and being political. As […]
Jeff Haanen
Race and the Gospel

The week after George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis, I got on the phone to call several of my Black friends to see how they were doing. One of our alumni from the 5280 Fellowship, a Black woman working for the state of Colorado, shared her devastation. “I’m not sure how to describe how I’m […]
Fred Smith
A Permanent Enemy

Editor’s note: “A Permanent Enemy originally appeared at The Gathering.In his documentary film, “Korengal,“ author and director Sebastian Junger recounts the stories of a platoon of American soldiers deployed to a tiny and dangerous outpost in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. The “grinding boredom gives way to bowel-emptying fear, followed sometimes by episodes of nearly psychedelic blood lust […]
Joanna Meyer
What COVID-19 Lays Bare: Implications for Women’s Work

Have you seen the ad Microsoft Teams created for Mothers’ Day that shows moms juggling childcare and work-related web calls during the quarantine? Kids sword fight in the background and brush mom’s hair while these harried professionals fight to keep their composure in front of their colleagues. Maybe you can relate to this feeling of […]
Jeff Haanen
Share the Stimulus: A Movement of Generosity

With more than 22 million people unemployed in the U.S., many of us are asking what we can do to help.Millions of Americans are receiving stimulus checks from the federal government. Some will need this money greatly, but many of us know people in our churches, communities, and businesses with far greater needs than our […]
Chris Horst
To Our Heroes Wearing Trucker Caps

A big rig rolled past our family bike caravan. The driver delighted our kids by laying on his air horn as we waved to him. With four kids under age ten in quarantine, we seek and savor all our outdoor moments. Our family bike rides these days make us look at the traffic all around us in a […]
Drew Yancey
Faith and Work After Covid-19: A Gelassenheit Way Forward

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared at Patheos. Drew Yancey serves as vice president for Leadership Partners at Denver Institute for Faith & Work.Gelassenheit. The word struck my soul as soon as I saw it. I was early in my PhD program in religion and theology, pouring through the history of early Anabaptism. My research […]
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