What Does Advent Have to Do with Work?
At first glance, Advent doesn’t seem to have anything to do with work. Advent, after all, is a special season in the Christian year,…
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Ruth the Faithful: A Survival Story
As I was recently re-reading the book of Ruth, I found myself remembering similar stories I have encountered in my own life. I thought…
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Why Passion Isn’t the Holy Grail of Work
I graduated seminary in 2011, on the heels of the Great Recession. Very few companies were hiring. In fact, many were laying people off….
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Truth in the Workplace: A Story of Resistance
When I was the Senior Pastor of Irvine Presbyterian Church, a woman from my congregation – I’ll call her Rochelle – made an appointment…
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Sheroes of the Faith: What We Can Learn About Creative Resistance
“But the Midwives feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them.” (Ex. 1: 17) Two women face an ethical…
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Gender Discrimination at Work: Faithful Resistance
I was on a panel recently that opened up with this question: As a woman, what are some of the ways you’ve been discriminated…
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Let’s Change How We Ask About Calling
I hate icebreakers. Maybe it’s the introvert in me. Or maybe it’s because I’m Irish and my face heats up every time I’m put…
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Failing Well, Not Fast
Someone asked me once, “Why are you afraid to fail?” I remember wading through a bunch of half sentences until I admitted, “I don’t…
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Addressing Entrepreneurial Anxiety
1. Describe the anxiety that comes with your role as an entrepreneur. “Entrepreneurship is an uphill battle. It’s filled with roadblocks, pitfalls, and detours….
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Learning Agility
The world will reward agility, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Every manager and entrepreneur recognizes this. But our educational system does not yet prepare people for…
Read PostLiberty Sessions: Finding Hope in Another Woman’s Story
I recently went back home to the Midwest to visit family. While there I visited the coolest nail salon I had ever been to….
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Was Jesus an Entrepreneur?
I feel a little sheepish asking this question. I am not eager to join the club of writers who claim Jesus for their particular…
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Zooming In and Zooming Out
Together, my husband and I own a creative agency. Separately, I work as a practical theologian and he is a filmmaker. Like many of…
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Calling All Deborahs
Calling for Deborah: Investing and encouraging women leaders in the workplace It had been twenty years. Twenty years of Canaanite oppression Twenty years that…
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Women at Work: a Round Table Conversation
Michaela: What I would love to try to have here are the conversations that I feel like I’m having naturally with people everywhere right…
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