Is Your Faith More Intellectual, Emotional, or Practical?
At The Collaborative we are always talking about connections. How do we remind ourselves and help others to better understand the relationship that ought to exist between our faith and our work. Another way to consider this, is how do...
Happiness Is Not the Goal: Contentment Is
Gisle Sorli has no doubt seen his share of the pursuit of happiness through the accumulations of things or the running blindly after lifelong "dreams" in his role as a Certified Financial Planner and CPA. In the article below he...
Vocations, Vacations, and Politics in Public
Here is a great challenge for all of us to consider if not specifically, as Stephen Lazarus suggests, at least conceptually. In the article below Stephen, a member of the Cardus team that publishes Comment Magazine and who is passionate...
There’s Nothing Ordinary About You
“I’m useless. I don’t have any gifts or talents to offer,” sadly this sentiment is strangely familiar for too many of us. Not everyone says it out loud, but we have all thought it at one time another. We are...
Common Ground—Possibility or Pipe Dream?
Forty percent of Americans believe that those with opposing political views pose a threat to the nation. In many ways, we are more divided than ever before: from race, to women’s rights, to conservative and liberal policies. But when we...
The Vital Role of Work in Raising an American Adult
On several occasions we have mentioned and even recommended Ben Sasse's new book The Vanishing American Adult. Hugh Whelchel in his article below gives us another reason this book should be on our summer reading list. There are important ideas...
An Old Fashioned Ribbing
Jason Gay wrote in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal about the Congressional Baseball game going forward in spite of the horrific act of terror the day before in which a gunman shot Rep. Steve Scalise (R., La.) and three others. The...
Social Justice Isn’t What You Think It Is
One of the fruits of our cultural demise is that words lose their meaning or certain segments of the population co-op and skew the meaning. This is an extremely dangerous trait of the society we live in today. The phrase...
Why Going to Church Reduces Stress
You might be wondering what does this particular blog have to do with The Collaborative or at the very least thinking this article seems to be a little out of our mainstream. At first glance you would be correct, however,...
When Is Water-Cooler Chit Chat Gossip?
While we all have vastly different workplace experiences, I hope and pray you have not seen the devastating effects of gossip that I have witnessed. The crushing power of gossip has the ability to destroy people and entities. Like so...
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