It’s not until you’ve been royally screwed over by someone that you realize how impossible it is to forgive. It’s downright unnatural, like taking a bath with your cat. For Christians, most of us believe it is our obligation and duty to rush headlong into forgiveness the moment we are betrayed, as Jesus modeled for us in the gospels.

Bradley J. Moore on money, ambition, hard work, prosperity, responsibility and honoring God no matter what.

And what if, in the middle of all this hard work, your ship comes in? What then? Howard Morrison reflects on the temptations of wealth.

In the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown, Martin Marty recalls a panel with his former colleague at the University of Chicago, the economist Milton Friedman, and reflects on the finite limits of human virtue, knowledge, power, and security.

A few weeks back, InsideWork's Al Lunsford received an article on the economy that was making the rounds via email. Instead of just passing it along, Al asked several friends for a quick reaction. The article turned out to be inconsequential but some of the responses Al got were not. Here's the part two of one of those responses.

What do you do with pain inflicted by others? How do you process it? What do your colleagues and family learn from watching how you behave when you're in the hot seat? Howard Morrison measures the size of his own heart against the poetry of Psalm 69.

From 50 Cent to Dallas Willard to an encounter with Jesus, Solomon West tracks the dangers of greed unchecked.

Garry Wills put his finger right on the bruise in his New York Times Op-Ed, Christ Among the Partisans. Jim Hancock writes about learning to live that out in the world of commerce.

It is too soon to know how this recession-depression will work out for religious institutions and ideas. While watching and waiting, Historian Martin Marty decided to do what so many do: compare today to the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Bradley J. Moore has an encounter with a young woman that is at once so random and so revealing, he has to wonder, "Why did she choose me? Was it a message from God? Could she have been an angel?" Or is that sometimes people just show up?

2009 was what it was. Today we reboot. Tomorrow we get on with our work. Godspeed as you pursue your part with energy, imagination, endurance and hope in 2010. Happy New Year!