There’s a lot of talk in faith/work circles about the idea of working for the common good - for the good of your neighbor, city, company, classmate, family member, environment and world. It’s a good idea and an integral part of a balanced vocational worldview. But I think it falls…  [more]

A recent Pew Research survey about modern parenthood revealed some interesting societal shifts. According to NPR's story on the survey: ... fathers spend three times as many hours a week on child care, and twice as much on housework, as they did in the 1960s. Sounds like a major shift,…  [more]

One of the greatest legacies left by C. Everett Koop, who died Monday at age 96, is his witness to the role of faith in public life. By the time he ended his eight years as Surgeon General of the United States in 1989, he was claimed as a saint…  [more]

"And on the 8th day God looked down on His planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker!’ So, God made a farmer." In an attempt to rekindle the buzz from their 2011 “Imported from Detroit” Super Bowl ad, Chrysler Group once again made a bold advertising move this year:…  [more]

It’s not often that I read an obituary of a celebrity and remember the exact last time I thought of that person. Especially when that time was nearly 20 years ago. But as I read of the passing of Helen Gurley Brown, the long-time editor of Cosmopolitan magazine and author…  [more]