Sing a New Song (Beauty and Brokenness Pt 3)

Summary For the fortieth episode of Teach Us To Pray I discuss the first few verses of Psalm 40, one of my favorites, and also one of the best U2 songs ever. Prayer is about waiting, and about God stooping to hear us, and about God putting a new song in us that we can […]

How Did We Miss This? It’s Patronizingly Clear. (Union Pt 2)

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes and Spotify. Summary Rob Kelly is the Founder & CEO of the FORCLT Network which connects pastors for personal, church, and city renewal. Rob is also co-founder of the City Leaders Collective which connects and equips city network leaders […]

Beauty and Brokenness # 2: Because the Night

Summary In part 2 of this series, I return to the Jesus and Peter conversation on the beach scene, and raise the question of how God might want to talk about painful memories, the idolatry of work, and using our wounds to heal others – but don’t worry, this episode is merrier than you might […]

Jesus Doesn’t Want a Relationship With You (Union Part 1)

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes and Spotify. Summary Dave and Monica Hickman are entrepreneurs whose leadership has been marked by believing that Jesus doesn’t want a relationship with us; he wants to be one with us. The Hickmans founded SocialHub, a business in North […]

Beauty and Brokenness # 1: Questions and Charcoal

Summary This is the first of three episodes on the convergence of beauty and brokenness as found in Scripture, and how we might learn to pray about God’s redemptive activity in our lives. In this episode, I explore the famous conversation between Jesus and Peter on the shore of lake Galilee, examining how Jesus might […]

How to Trust God When You Have a Quota to Meet

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes and Spotify. Summary Ben Nussbaum, VP of Sales at OnCenter and associate director of Faith & Work Chicago, opens up about what it’s really like to stay true to your faith in the ups and downs of a sales […]

God Loves Work #4: Scarcity, Imagination, and Work

Summary Are you ever frustrated by not having enough information, foresight, and understanding, particularly in your work? Do you ever wish that things were just more clear? What if this lack, this scarcity, is by design? What if it could fuel your imagination for how God wishes to use you in your work? In this […]

Whole-Life Stewardship with Murdock Trust CEO Romanita Hairston

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes and Spotify. Summary Romanita Hairston, CEO of the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, delivers a powerful reflection on leadership, faith, and purpose. She reveals how her journey through nonprofits, tech, and philanthropy is deeply intertwined with her identity as a […]

God Loves Work #3: Our Work as Making, not just Producing

Summary How surprising that the very first human mentioned in the Bible as being indwelled by God’s Spirit is a craftsman! In this episode we address what this might mean for our work, inviting a prayerful focus on human flourishing. Episode 36: God Loves Work #3: Our Work as Making, not just Producing (Exodus 31:1-11) […]

Navigating Change in a World of Flux

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes and Spotify. Summary Author Bruce Feiler claims that people experience 30 to 40 disruptors in their lives, which is about one every 12 to 18 months (Source). In todays conversation, we hear from authors Lisa Pratt Slayton and Michaela […]

God Loves Work #2: How Work Goes Wrong

Summary The Tower of Babel is a story about how our work can go wrong, including using technology thoughtlessly, and working so as to “make a name for ourselves.” The only antidote for these work mistakes (and others) is prayer. Episode 35: God Loves Work #2: How Work Goes Wrong (Genesis 11) Hosted by Jeff […]

How One Cartoonist’s Imagination Can Inspire Your Work

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes and Spotify. Summary On this episode of the Faith & Work Podcast, we learn about cultivating creativity and imagination from cartoonist Mike Maihack. Mike is best known for his series Cleopatra in Space, originally published by Scholastic and later […]