Working with Dan Doriani
By Center for Faith and Work
Working with Dan DorianiMay 18, 2022
Jim Fiala and Mike Duffy, Restaurateurs
We are fascinated by restaurant culture; from celebrity chef’s, to cooking competitions, to fancy food photography, or finding out the latest hottest place to open in our neighborhood. But behind the facade is the hard day to day work of running a restaurant, managing people, and perhaps most importantly offering true hospitality. Today, Dan talks with two restaurateurs from St. Louis, Jim Fiala and Mike Duffy. They run quite different styles of establishments, one fine dining, the other a casual sports pub. Despite the difference in their establishments, they are both informed and shaped by their faith. Join us and listen to today’s fascinating conversation.
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Brent Harriman, Pastor, Former Campus Minister
What is work life balance? Is it something to strive for, or is it merely something we have been inculturated to? In today’s podcast, Dan talks with Brent Harriman, the founding pastor of Resurrection Presbyterian Church in Knoxville and former campus minister with RUF about the specific challenges of ministry life. What are the expectations towards those in ministry as it relates to work, and how can those in ministry rightly challenge their own community. Dan and Brent talk openly about their own experiences, from their own unique perspectives; we think you will enjoy this candid conversation, so please join us.
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Matt Darr, Owner of Darr Tutors and Peggy Demetri, Executive Director
Building and maintaining work culture is one of the most challenging, yet important, facets of running a successful business. Both today’s guests, Matt Darr and Peggy Demetri have years of experience in doing exactly that. They share insights and lessons learned on how best to cultivate the kind of healthy work environment that allows employees to thrive. Join us today as Dan talks with Matt and Peggy, and explores workplace culture, building a team and how their faith makes them better leaders.
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Tyler Stephens and Sarah Doriani, Architect, Designer
Can the shape of a building, the design, use of materials, even the play of light in its corridors and rooms actually shape us as people? Can it influence our mood? Can it create a sense of awe? Point us toward worship? In today’s conversation with Tyler and Sarah, Dan explores how architecture and design can express personality, advance cultural goals, even impact and build relationships. At the heart of it though, is how their faith informs their work. Join us for this fascinating conversation, we hope you are both challenged and informed by it.
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Rico Tice, Anglican Clergyman, Evangelist
In today’s podcast Dan interviews Rico Tice, an Anglican evangelist and perhaps best known for his book, Christianity Explored. Mr. Tice was born in Chile, raised in Uganda, and educated in England. He joined All Souls church in London, under the leadership of John Stott in 1994. Dan and Rico discuss why evangelism is so hard, the courage it takes to remain faithful to the gospel, and how reading scripture together with non-believers helps to create a pathway for conversation and conversion.
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Steven Garber, former Professor of Marketplace Theology and Leadership, Regent College
Mentorship is much like planting a seed and nurturing it’s growth, tending to it until it bears fruit. As Steven Garber says, mentorship is the act of bringing one into vocation over the course of their life. As part of the burden of mentorship there is a deeper recognition that all of life falls under the Lordship of Christ. Dan and Steven acknowledge their influences from Lesslie Newbigin to Michael Polyani to Abraham Kuyper, and along the way they discuss everything from marketing, to knowing, hiking, politics, and their aesthetic sensibilities. Join us as we conclude season 7 with this profound and stimulating conversation on faith and work.
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Katherine Alsdorf, Author, Former Executive Director of Redeemer’s Center for Faith and Work
Katherine Alsdorf has been at the forefront of the Faith and Work movement since she joined Redeemer’s Center for Faith and Work in 2002. Prior to her work for Redeemer, she spent years leading various firms in tech and entrepreneurial spaces in Silicon Valley and New York City. She co-authored Every Good Endeavor with Tim Keller in 2012. In today’s episode, Katherine joins Dan to discuss her career in hi-tech, her perspective on Faith and Work, and some of the unique challenges women face in the workplace.
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Elliott Kellner, Research Scientist
Elliot Kellner was “gifted” a love of the outdoors by a childhood spent exploring his family’s Appalachian farm with siblings and cousins. Those early impactful years shaped him into an adult with a profound love of creation, and also for the people who inhabit creation. Dr. Kellner has been a youth pastor, a professor at the University of West Virginia, and is now director of commercial innovation at the Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis. Dan talks with Elliott about trees, water, creation care, and how in his current role at the Danforth Center Elliott brings together his academic discipline with practical application.
Also, check out the brief interview at the end with Zac Waggener, a recent participant in one of CFW’s cohorts and how his experience helped him to make a difference in his corner of the world.
Read more about Dr. Kellner’s position with the Danforth Center here: https://www.danforthcenter.org/news/danforth-center-expands-innovation-team/
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Jen Pollack Michel, Author
To be human is to desire, and that capacity can be directed toward things both sinful and holy. Jen Pollack Michel says desire “can bring us most honestly and vulnerably into the presence of God, and He is the one who rightly orders our desires.” In this wonderfully vulnerable discussion, Dan and guest host Abby Karsten discuss the nature of desire, how God shapes and orders the longings of our heart, and what it means when even our rightly ordered desires are not granted.
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Russ Ramsey, Pastor, Author
It thrills us, challenges us, moves us, frightens us, fills us with awe, wonder and hope: art. The creative impulse is a vibrant and wonderful thing, fully mysterious in the ways in which it has inhabited individuals throughout human history. On this week’s episode of Working w. Dan Doriani, Dan talks with pastor and noted author Russ Ramsey about his latest book, Rembrandt is in the Wind. Russ addresses the transcendence of art, but also the vulnerability of the wounded humans behind our great masterpieces. What does art, and the broken lives of artists, tell us about the world? More fully, how can we see the gospel threaded through the miasma of their pain?
To see the artwork discussed on this podcast, click here: Art
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Collin Hansen, Journalist, Author, Biographer.
Collin Hansen has been chronicling the modern evangelical church for the better part of the last two decades. He is perhaps best known for his 2008 work on New Calvinism, entitled Young, Restless and Reformed. Collin most recently published a biography of the late Tim Keller, and currently is vice president for content and editor in chief for the Gospel Coalition. He also hosts the podcast, Gospelbound.
In this episode Dan talks with Collin about his work, historical movements within the American church, and the legacy of Tim Keller.
This episode was recorded prior to Tim Keller’s passing.
Listen to Collin’s Podast, Gospelbound
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Sandra McCracken, singer/songwriter
Music has the ability to comfort, to inspire, to bring us to a place of worship. Sandra McCracken has been making music that does all of that for several decades. Sandra has had a successful solo career and has been a member of several influential and well-known groups. Perhaps best known for her recent work crafting songs from the Psalms intended for congregational singing, Sandra and Dan discuss the nature of songcraft in this episode. How does inspiration strike – or does it? And why the Psalms are such fertile ground to compose modern hymns.
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Kelly Kapic, professor of Theology at Covenant College, author
“Our creativity is better with seasons of rest,” says Kelly Kapic, author of You’re Only Human: How your limits reflect God’s Design and Why That’s Good News and today's guest on Working with Dan Doriani. Rest is a reflection of our limitations, and limitations are more broadly a sign of our humanness. God made us finite, with boundaries to what we can accomplish. Our creatureliness, our dependency, and our finitude lead us toward humility, or at least it ought to. Dan and Kelly work through all the implications of being human in this illuminating conversation.
We’re giving away a few copies of Kelly’s book—click here to enter for the opportunity to win You’re Only Human, provided by Brazos Press.
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Tim Challies, author, book reviewer
Suffering is at the core of the Christian story, yet our experience of suffering as Christians creates all kinds of cognitive, spiritual, and emotional dissonance. Tim Challies, Dan's guest on this episode of Working with Dan Doriani, explicitly identifies this tension when he asks: "When we faced this time of tragedy, it was the time to ask: what is all this theology going to do for you? In your moment of need, are you going to turn away from it, or are you going to go deeper into it?"
Not only did Tim go deeper into it, but he also channeled his grief through his work. The resulting product was his book Seasons of Sorrow. Listen as Dan and Tim discuss the death of Tim's son, the gospel hope behind the sorrow of that loss, and how work – particularly writing – was Tim's way of processing and publicly healing.
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Lisa Nichols, CEO and co-owner of Technology Partners
What are the challenges that female executives face in today's business climate? What is the likelihood of female entrepreneurs finding the funding they need to start their businesses? Is it possible to lead a business when your partner is also your spouse? Lisa Nichols, Dan's guest on Working with Dan Doriani, addresses these questions and more. Her experience leading Technology Partners over the last 30 years has given her incredible insight and understanding into a believer's role in shaping the workplace culture and providing much-needed mentorship to women in business.
Listen to Lisa’s podcast, Something Extra
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Michael Kruger, Scholar, professor, author, and president of Charlotte RTS
The stories always come out afterward: churches fall apart, ministries fail, and congregants carry hurt with them for years. The issue of spiritual abuse in the church is both deeply painful but also relevant. We have heard the stories, listened to the podcasts, and seen or experienced the damage ourselves. In this episode of Working with Dan Doriani, Dan talks with Michael Kruger, author of the recently published Bully Pulpit: Confronting the Problem of Spiritual Abuse in the Church. They discuss the book, the nature of abuse in churches, and what there is to be done about it. For instance, could it be possible to prevent abuse before it even begins by writing job descriptions featuring firm accountability and deep transparency and emphasizing servanthood over power and humility over stardom?
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Dr. Nii Addy, professor, researcher: Neurobiology of addiction
Addiction has a pervasive impact on our culture, ranging from legally available opioids and alcohol to illicit narcotics; addiction even manifests itself in mundane areas of our lives as well.
The challenge to overcome and conquer addiction can seem overwhelming to those held captive by it. And it is too often the case that relapse is experienced as an all-encompassing failure. In this episode of Working with Dan Doriani, Dan talks with Dr. Nii Addy, a professor at Yale and an expert in the neurobiology of addiction. On a hopeful note, Dr. Addy argues that relapse is but one step along the way to success; in fact, repeated attempts are the greatest indicator of success in breaking addiction. Listen as Dan and Nii discuss our brain's role in addiction, recovery, and the healing power of prayer.
Listen to Dr. Addy’s podcast Addy Hour.
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Marvin Olasky, author and long-time chief of World magazine
Olasky explains the world of publishing and offers his definition of conservatism. The author of many books about faith and politics revisits the concept of compassionate conservatism, which he championed for decades.
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Ryan Watson, appellate lawyer.
Watson practices law for a large firm litigating judicial decisions that seem both mistaken and strategic enough to challenge. Watson explains how his firm decides to take up a case and how they work to reverse judicial mistakes in areas like free speech and the so-called wall between church and state.
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Josh Borgmeyer, physical therapist
With degrees and mentoring in traditional physical therapy, in treating chronic pain, and in “manual training,” Josh Borgmyer is one of the go-to therapists in his region. Josh marvels at the design of the human body and aims to work with God’s design to help many people regain muscular and skeletal health without surgery. He also reflects on the experience of seeing things about the body that no one else sees (yet).
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Matt Pierson, Nashville musician.
Matt Pierson has played bass on over a thousand studio albums and for countless
concerts, often with essentially no time to prepare. Matt tells us how that is
possible, how things really work in a recording studio and how years of experience
shape his skills. He explains how his faith shapes his musicianship and enabled
him to recover from a catastrophic injury to his hand.
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Dr. Karen Swallow Prior, professor, author: Reading and public theology
As a professor of English, Karen Swallow Prior argues that reading both shapes character and requires character, including patience, prudence, and love. Dr. Prior offers Christian perspectives on events for the New York Times and the Atlantic, taking up the role of public theologian. Although she never sought one, she has a "platform" – and explains why it is ill-advised to seek a platform.
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Dr. Julius Kim, President of TGC: Making sense of the world from a biblical perspective.
Julius Kim is the man chosen to lead The Gospel Coalition after Tim Keller and Don Carson. Dr. Kim directs one of the largest Christian media platforms. Under his leadership, TGC has expanded to every inhabited continent and is available on almost any device. Julius's textbook on preaching offers a fount of information for new preachers and a tune-up for experienced speakers.
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Dave Jump, Entrepreneur: Redemptive Stewardship
Dave Jump, President of American Milling, is an entrepreneur with a reputation for nurturing successful businesses. Though Dave primarily works, very successfully, to transfer grain up and down the Mississippi River, his eye for business and heart for his workers has made him successful at most things he’s set his hand to—from his revitalization of St. Louis’s beloved City Museum to the emergency production of much needed ventilators during the Covid-19 pandemic. Through his creativity, hard work and dignifying care for and compensation of his employees, Dave is an excellent model for what it looks like to use your God given talents, treasure, and position for the glory of God and good of neighbor.
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Ray Cortese, Pastor: Holy Ambition
On this episode our guest is Ray Cortese, the self-professed “unspiritual” pastor who has spent over 40 years at the same small town church in Florida. Ray shares his own story of his life and call to ministry, and through it offers a candid testimony to all of us about the power of the God to transform human ambition for his own purposes. Whether you are a minister, church worker, or have ever struggled to know the right role of godly ambition in your own work, this is a great episode for you! Connect with us! Our website: https://www.faithandworkstl.org/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faithandworkstlInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/faithandwor...YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCuD3xLksTdBhMX0R...Purchase Dan's latest book: https://www.prpbooks.com/book/work-th...
Tom Nelson, President of MTF: Work that Flourishes
Our guest on this episode is Tom Nelson. The subject of faith and work is very near and dear to Tom's heart. He is president of the faith and work organization Made to Flourish, a pastor, and the author of several books including: “Work Matters”, “The Economics of Neighborly Love”, and, most recently, “The Flourishing Pastor”. In this episode Tom and Dan discuss the world of faith and work, and Tom's profound, lifelong commitment to bridging, what he calls, the Sunday to Monday gap. Tom’s most recent book, the flourishing pastor, offers a framework for ministry leaders to get out from the crushing burden of stress and crisis. Whether you are are a pastor yourself or simply a faithful believer ministering to a weary world through your daily work--issues of over commitment and burn out, along with the need for accountability and discipleship are nearly ubiquitous. Who are you leading? Who is leading you? As you listen, I invite you consider what flourishing leadership might look like in your life.
The Flourishing Pastor: https://www.amazon.com/Flourishing-Pastor-Recovering-Leadership-Resources/dp/1514001322/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=Cj0KCQjw-daUBhCIARIsALbkjSaFOhjuWRJpdX-vAgb_SB29_i8MdumjNSCCtsJP9ZQETG6fXDD2ErkaAuiLEALw_wcB&hvadid=558582329959&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=1019379&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=2157699979659963738&hvtargid=kwd-1459587962795&hydadcr=22165_9764347&keywords=the+flourishing+pastor&qid=1654050731&sr=8-1
Made to Flourish: https://www.madetoflourish.org/
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Lance Acree, Aeronautical Engineer: Teamwork
What does a cargo plane have in common with an operating room? You’ll find in this episode, an interview with Mr. Lance Acree. Lance is an aeronautical engineer and pilot turned healthcare consultant. His rare and strategic set of gifts give him a very special insight into what it takes for a group of people working together to succeed. Whether you are a team leader or team member, this episode will offer insights on how to cultivate collaboration, character, and creative problem solving in your workplace for the glory of God. The adage stands: teamwork makes the dream work!
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Abby Karsten and Chris Gordon, Women's Ministry: The Body at Work
In this episode, Dan sits down with Abby Karsten and Chris Gordon. Abby is the Women's Ministry Leader of the Kirk of the Hills Church in St. Louis, and Christine (Chris) is an author of Bible studies for women and co-founder of At His Feet. They talk a bit about their work in their churches and on writing bible study curriculum, but spend most of the conversation on a subject, quite literally, close to all our hearts: the body. Our bodies are not incidental, "we are integrated, spiritual and physical beings" Chris insists. Our bodies are how we experience the goodness of God's creation: watching the dawn break, hearing Beethoven's 5th, eating Indian food, holding a baby. And yet they can also be the location, and often the source of profound pain, shame, and longing. None of this is foreign to our incarnate savior, the trio reminds us. Jesus took on a body, was DEPENDENT on the body of his mother, worked with his body, and yes, probably sometimes got splinters.
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at his feet studies: https://www.athisfeetstudies.com/
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Abram Van Engen, Professor: Origin Stories
Abram Van Engen is a professor of English at Washington University in STL, Executive Director of the Carver Project, and the author of 2 books. The second and most well-known is titled "City on a Hill, a history of American exceptionalism". By way of disclaimer, Abram and Dan both wrote theses on the Puritans, and nerd out about that on this episode from time to time. They also talk in depth about Abram's book "City on a Hill" and this idea of American exceptionalism, which may not immediately feel like it has bearing on your own vocation or work. But as you listen, we invite you to take note of the idea of an "origin story." Consider how you think about your own history. What "origin story" do you tell about your own career, and how does that shape the way you see yourself and your work?
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The Carver Project: https://www.carverstl.org/
Abram's poetry podcast--"Poetry for All": https://poetryforall.fireside.fm/
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Tony Bancroft, Animator: Godly Entertainment
Tony Bancroft is the animator and director who has brought you some of your favorite childhood characters like Pumba and Kronk! Dan and Tony talk Disney, disappointment, and seeing God, even in the midst of your failure.
"There's a romantic idea of being creative. Shut the door and create. But creating is communal."
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Scott Sauls, Author and Pastor: The Vulnerable Leader
In this, our last episode of season 3, Dan sits down with pastor and author Scott Sauls to talk about the role of leaders in these unprecedented times. Sauls encourages us to fix our eyes, not on our enemies or the controversy of our day, but on Jesus. Reflecting on excerpts from Scott's book A Gentle Answer, he and Dan discuss media, outrage, politics, criticism, and the importance of vulnerable leadership.
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John Kramer, CEO: Creating a Healthy Business
John Kramer, Chairman and CEO of Cambridge Air Solutions, has made it his mission restore glory and dignity to the manufacturing industry. He does this through a genuine, palpable care for his employees that manifests itself through both unconditional love and high expectations. He and Dan talk leadership, environmentalism, and how business people can cultivate healthy, sustainable systems and organizations.
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David Karandish, A.I.: The Future of Intelligence
This week Dan sits down with CEO and artificial intelligence expert David Karandish. Karandish answers all our pressing questions about A.I. like: when do we need to start fearing the rise of the machines? Is A.I. just human beings playing god? How will A.I. affect job displacement? And how can we best please our robot overlords? (Just kidding, we're all going to be fine.) David offers a window into the fascinating beauty of technology and how it fits within the creation mandate to be fruitful, multiply, and fill, gently subdue, and cultivate the earth.
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Steph Hubach: Living Wisely with Our Abilities and Disabilities
Steph Hubach is a Research Fellow in Disability Ministry with Covenant Seminary, author of two books on disability in the church, and formerly the director of Mission to North America's Special Needs Ministries. Steph offers a theologically robust and deeply personal vision for what the gospel tells us about disability in both its physical and social dimensions. She reminds us that we are all a mix of both the blessedness of creation and the brokenness of the fall; we all have capacities as well as vulnerabilities--and it is especially in those places of weakness that God delights to work.
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Dan Allender, Therapist: Engaging Trauma in a Fallen World
Dan Allender, prominent Christian therapist, author, professor, and speaker who focuses on sexual abuse, trauma recovery, and story sits down with us to discuss his calling. Allender's passion for engaging with the brokenness of this world is born out of his own palpable delight in the gospel of Jesus. The Dans discuss a whole range of topics from facing our own death, to journaling, to narcissism in the Church and workplace. There's something for everyone in here, and above all is the invitation to delight daily in the extravagant, playful, awesome goodness of Christ.
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Governor Bill Haslam: A Faithful Presence in Politics
Whether you are finding yourself over-invested in or completely jaded by the drama of American politics, this is the episode for you. Bill Haslam is the former Mayor of Knoxville and Governor of Tennessee, and the author of Faithful Presence: The Promise and the Peril of Faith in the Public Square. For Governor Haslam, the work of the Christian in politics is to exercise faithful presence--neither withdrawing, nor assimilating with the broader culture. Haslam offers refreshing, and often surprising insights from his own experience in politics, and invites us ask "how do we [as Christians] act in a different way [in politics] so that we really are salt and light in the public square?"
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Tim Persons, Physicist and Administrator: Serving the Public through Science
In this, our final episode of season 2, Dan chats with Dr. Timothy Persons, the chief scientist and one of the managing directors for the Government Accountability Office. We don't often think about this part of the US government, but they do the essential behind the scenes work of offering scientific, economic, and sociological insight, oversight and foresight into all policies and laws put forward by congress. Dr. Persons holds degrees Nuclear Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Executive Leadership and offers us an insightful look into what faithfulness looks like in the worlds of science and public policy. In this secular age, Dr. Persons reminds us that "we live in miracles... science should engender awe because it points us to something bigger."
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Nancy Gruneisen, Children’s Librarian: Curating Curiosity
"Books are like windows," shares this week's guest Nancy Gruneisen, "you can see another time, another world, another culture. But they can also be mirrors. Children want to see themselves in the books they are reading." Nancy is a children's librarian at a local St. Louis elementary school and is a perfect example of how exercising quiet, yet strong faithfulness to God's kingdom in your work can bring joy and beauty to your corner (or reading nook) of the world.
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Bob Yarbrough, the Lumberjack and Theologian: On Working Hard
Dr. Robert Yarbrough: author, educator, scholar, and tree feller. Bob has written many books and articles including Clash of Visions: Populism and Elitism in New Testament Theology and The Letters to Timothy and Titus. He is also a professor of both Greek and New Testament at Covenant Theological Seminary, where he is known for regaling students with stories of his lumberjack days, and gracing a lucky few with a glimpse at his axe collection. Dan and Bob chat about what it looks like, regardless of your station, to work heartily, as for the Lord. Straddling the worlds of white and blue collar vocations, Dr. Yarbrough demonstrates, both through his own experiences and his study of the new testament, a vision of work that is rooted in discipline and endurance.
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Rick Horton: Baseball, the Media, and Discipleship
Rick Horton is a broadcaster and color commentator for the St. Louis Cardinals and a leader in the organization Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Rick was also a pitcher in Major League Baseball himself for a number of years, and offers a perspective on the game, media, and criticism from his vantage points both on and off the field. While not many of us will know what it's like to sit in the broadcasting booth, Horton is immensely relatable and offers insights on things that are important regardless of your career field: speaking the truth in love, navigating a changing culture, as well as evangelism and discipleship in the work place.
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Irwyn Ince: Race and Friendship in Church and Society
Irwyn Ince is the coordinator of the PCA's Mission to North America (MNA), a Council member of The Gospel Coalition, as well as the director of the Grace DC Institute for Cross-Cultural Mission, which offers practical training for churches and other faith based organizations on how to lead their congregations toward an intentionally multi-racial and multi-ethnic future. Ince is also the author The Beautiful Community: Unity, Diversity, and the Church at Its Best.
Listen in and hear Dan and Irwyn's candid and grace-filled conversation about race and diversity in both the church and workplace; and get a sneak peek at a project these two friends are working on together.
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Jessica Patterson Long: Foreign Policy as Challenge and Privilege
Jessica Patterson Long is a foreign service officer in the US State Department, currently serving in Namibia. Jessica is a seminary grad, but was encouraged by her professors to pursue her godly passion for justice through global politics. Jessica has worked to mitigate the effects of the fall in her work--combating food scarcity, terrorism, and harmful leadership. We hope you will enjoy Dan and Jessica's conversation and, regardless of your work or authority level, consider how you too can endeavor to promote justice and mitigate evil in your corner of the world.
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John Hendrix, Graphic Novelist: Art, Illustration, and Story
John Hendrix is a New York Times Bestselling illustrator and author of many children's books, including Shooting at the Stars, Drawing is Magic, John Brown: His Fight for Freedom, Miracle Man: The Story of Jesus, The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler. Dan and John discuss joy and struggles in the creative process, perseverance in the face of obstacles, and the clarity and mystery of art. They also spend some time on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his work subverting the Nazi regime.
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Shelley Milligan: Qualifying the Called
Shelley Milligan is the Managing Director of the Carver Institute, an organization geared towards empowering Christian faculty and students (particularly at secular universities) to serve and connect university, church, and society. She previously served as Associate Provost at Washington University in St. Louis and as the Assistant Head of School at Westminster Christian Academy. Shelley shares her own career journey, where at times she was stepping outside her realm of qualification, and at other times she seemed to move backward in the "success" hierarchy. Shelley helps us explore how ambition, qualification, and competence function in God's upside-down kingdom where it is often the foolish, weak, and powerless who are called to positions of authority and responsibility.
Some reflection questions: Have you had the experience of God calling you outside your comfort or qualification zone? What was that like? What do you think of Shelley's point that with privilege comes both opportunities and responsibilities?
Jim Talent pt. 2: Exercising Our Democratic Authority
In this second segment of our two-part interview with former American Senator Jim Talent, Senator Talent and Dr. Doriani talk more broadly about the American political system, the role of citizens in a democracy, and what Christians ought to expect from their elected representatives. He encourages believers to remember that Jesus didn't come to reform people or systems but to make new people and new systems, and that to put too much hope in politics is to put "new wine in old wineskins", and yet we all bear divine authority and responsibility which we must exercise thoughtfully and humbly.
Some questions for further reflections on this episode:
- Having listened to Senator Talent, what do you think Christians should expect from politicians? If you are in a position of authority, what can people expect from you in the way you conduct your work?
- Senator Talent makes the point that, in a democracy, each individual exercises a bit of sovereign authority. How do you navigate this responsibility without putting disproportionate hope in politics?
Jim Talent pt. 1: Serving the Public with Wisdom and Honesty
In this episode, Dan and former Senator Jim Talent discuss the timely questions: what are the responsibilities of a politician to the people they govern? What role does faith play in a Christian politician's work? How should we adapt to the changing political landscape we find ourselves in? Senator Talent navigates these big questions with wisdom, honesty, and grace. He says that in politics, as in all things, the Lord cares both for the ends and the means.
Some questions for further reflection:
- In your work, how do you navigate the tension between loyalty to outcome and loyalty to an institution? Put another way, which do you prioritize: process or result?
- Do you ever have to do or say unpopular things in your work? What does that look like?
Skip Ryan: Embracing the End of Success
The gospel is the anti-success message” - Dr. Joseph “Skip” Ryan. On our podcast we often get to hear stories of people who have had a lot of success in their work. While Dr. Ryan has had many successes in his work as a pastor and a professor, he has also experienced some significant set backs. Skip’s career was majorly detoured when he became addicted to narcotics, but in his failure he discovered a renewed love for the grace of God. If you find yourself struggling with perfectionism, shame, or the burdens of leadership in your work, this will be well worth a listen.
Phil Ryken: Living with Dual Callings
Dan sits down with Phil Ryken - president of one of the most prestigious colleges in the country, author of over 50 books, and formerly a long-time pastor. They dive into some of the questions Christians frequently ask about their work: how do I know whether or not I'm called to this particular career? How do I know when it's time to leave? And is full-time ministry the best/only way to serve? Additionally, they explore the world of academia.
Joe Buck: Announcing Sports with Humanity
Dan sits down with seven-time Emmy award-winning sportscaster Joe Buck and talks family, legacy, charity, the perils of social media, and of course — sports. If you enjoyed this podcast, check out our Facebook page: Center for Faith and Work, STL to join in the conversation.
How does the idea of a legacy from parents or grandparents impact the way you view your work? What do you think of Joe's critique of social media? Do you ever talk on social media in a way you would not in person? Are there things we can do to use social media more ethically?
Dr. Bruce Haughey: Healing with Grace and Knowledge
Dan speaks with world-renowned surgeon and pioneering medical researcher, Dr. Bruce Haughey. During his career, Dr. Haughey has made enormous strides in the field of Otolaryngology (that is, surgery on the head and neck)—finessing techniques and procedures that have saved numerous lives and improved the quality of life for countless more. He shares his perspective on God's good design—both his design for the human body and his design in gifting and calling Dr. Haughey himself in a particular way. If you enjoyed this podcast, check out our Facebook page at the Center for Faith and Work, STL to join in the discussion!
What is your highest and rarest (or most strategic) gift? Do you feel a responsibility to use your gifts, as Dr. Haughey does, for the good of your neighbor? or for humanity? How does your faith affect the way you approach your work? What special insights does it give you? (Think of Bruce talking about the color coding of certain nerves.)