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Faith • Biblical Reflections

A Meditation on Excess Productivity: Great Gifts, Stewarded Badly

Katelyn Kuck | 4 min read

Genesis 3: 14-20 describes the curse that befalls creation after Adam and Eve have disobeyed God in the garden. We then hear the stories of their descendants and the story of the Flood before we end up at the tower of Babel in the eleventh chapter. Very quickly, these stories set up the narrative of...

Vocation • On Daily Work

Living the Blame Game

Scott Phillips | 3 min read

I live in the midst of the blame game – I work for a general contractor. In the construction industry, you exist in this middleman role between the owner and architect who hire you to build a building and the subcontractors who actually build it. The general contractor (us) is like the drill sergeant or...

Vocation • On Daily Work

The Ethics of Buying Squash

Katelyn Kuck | 4 min read

We are privileged in terms of being fed – as Americans, we spend a smaller percentage of our incomes on food than citizens of any other developed country. We are blessed with a government that funds research into improving food production and better understanding nutrition and health. We are blessed with a more stable food...

Faith • Biblical Reflections

The Babel-onians and the American Dream

Emily Balint | 3 min read

In a strange way, reading about the Tower of Babel reminds me of the American Dream. Those builders in the land of Shinar had a twofold goal as they began their tower: they wanted to make a name for themselves and to prevent themselves from being scattered across the world. That sounds a lot like...

Vocation • On Daily Work

On the Nature of Goodness and Work

Cara Brown | 3 min read

Among mankind, there are few things that tend to cause more dissatisfaction, apathy, and bitterness than work. Work is viewed as a means to an end, namely money, and is, therefore, a necessary evil. Seldom do people refer to labor as inherently good, but instead refer to a good living or making a good wage. ...

Culture • Vocation • On Daily Work

Manipulable is Disposable

John Kyle | 3 min read

Genesis 1:26 gives a foundational characteristic of all people – we are made in the image of God: “Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over...

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