Ryan Tafilowski
Hope for Crooked Timber: The Manger and The Cross

Have you ever tried to read the Bible straight through? The story starts out well enough. Genesis is full of engaging and wild stories. Exodus recounts the dramatic tale of God’s deliverance of his people from slavery in Egypt, through the wilderness, and into the promised land.But then it gets brutal. Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy […]

S8E5: Nancy Duarte on Faith, Communication, & Leadership

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary What can Scripture teach us about the power of storytelling? How can leaders be resilient through tough times? What unique challenges do female leaders face in their organizations and communities? Joanna talks with Nancy Duarte […]

S8E4: Rich Villodas on The Deeply Formed Life
Hilary Masell Oswald
Giving Where You’re Growing

To hear Doug and Cindy Smith talk about their long life together—they’ll celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in the spring of 2021—is to be reminded that human flourishing happens, over and over again, at the intersection of faith and work. Doug, a longtime engineering executive who is now the associate dean of the University of […]

Ryan Tafilowski
Breaking the Spell of Consumption

One of the most jarring literary characters I’ve ever encountered is Prince Mishkin, the protagonist of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s masterful novel, The Idiot. The story follows the bumbling Mishkin, whom we meet in the first pages fresh out of a sanitarium in Switzerland, as he travels through the elegant parlors of 19th-century St. Petersburg’s aristocracy. To […]

S8E3: Soul Care for Anxious Times

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary Between the pandemic, the U.S. election, and the normal stressors of life, many of us are experiencing anxiety in our work and our relationships. On this episode of The Faith & Work Podcast, the Denver […]

Ryan Tafilowski
A Study on Calling

What am I supposed to do with my life? It’s a common question these days. And it’s a uniquely modern question.In his book The Courage to Be, theologian Paul Tillich argued that people of all ages have dealt with anxiety — the sense of being haunted by death or guilt, for example — but what […]

S8E1: Donna Harris on Faith & Entrepreneurship

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary What role does faith play in the life and work of Christian entrepreneurs? What unique challenges do female entrepreneurs face in the workplace and the church? Joanna Meyer and Dustin Moody talk with Donna Harris, […]

Watch Now: The Politics of Neighborly Love

Recent election cycles have left many Christians feeling discouraged, disillusioned, and dejected. America’s two-party system has left many believers feeling politically homeless when casting a vote feels like compromising values. Tweet storms and partisan bickering have replaced constructive dialogue and keep us from asking deeper questions about what it means to be citizens and followers […]

S7E7: Faith & Work Discipleship in Churches

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary It’s no secret that the faith and work movement has a bit of a class problem. While many individuals who are curious about integrating their faith and work have white collar or professional jobs, this […]

Ryan Tafilowski
Politics at Twilight

The quest for ideological purity is badly disrupting our common life, in part because it is feeding our rapidly accelerating trend toward polarization. The demand is now not simply general support of a party platform, perhaps with some qualms, but total and pristine ideology—and that goes for both the Right and the Left. This is […]