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Finding God at Work
Join Chris Easley, founder of Mission Central, as he explores the often complicated relationship between faith and work in this engaging podcast. Drawing from his experiences in both ministry and the marketplace, Chris delves into how to integrate our life with God and our everyday work. When we not only believe in Jesus but also experience him with us on the job, he transforms our understanding of work. He moves us beyond the limiting stories about work that we often live inside of and moves…
Episodes
- Finding God at Work
2: Four Myths About Callings
The language and idea of "calling" sometimes gets thrown around a lot in Christian circles. Not everything we tend to think or say about calling in our…
- Finding God at Work
1: Making Work Meaningful
We kick off a new series with this episode—Meaningful Work: Calling, Formation, Service, and Love. Work often feels meaningless. So what can we do both to find…
- Finding God at Work
Bonus: Taking Jesus to Work with Melissa McCormick
Chris interviews executive coach and author Melissa McCormick about her unexpected career journey. In her years as a leader at the Taylor Company, Melissa was…
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23: When Your Dream Comes Back to Life (with Katie Walter Easley)
Chris and Katie wrap up the Divine Disappointments series by sharing how God has brought them through a season of desolation and confusion into a place of hope…
- Finding God at Work
22: When Your Dream Dies Again (with Katie Walter Easley)
Chris and Katie continue to reflect on how the life of Joseph provides a paradigm for their own "journey through the desert" of work and health challenges…
- Finding God at Work
21: When Your Dream Dies (with Katie Walter Easley)
Chris and Katie continue to reflect on the life of Joseph and their own vocational journey. Joseph's dream looked dead when he was sold into slavery in Egypt…
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20: When God Gives You a Dream for Your Work
To wrap up our Divine Disappointments series, we're doing a four-episode look at the life of Joseph in the book of Genesis, with Chris (and Katie!) sharing how…
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19: When God Meets You After You Quit Working for Him (Ben Kraker)
Chris interviews Ben Kraker about his vocational journey from youth ministry to tech sales to managed IT and app development, and how he grew closer to God…
- Finding God at Work
18: When You Realize Your Industry Is Harming People
Every industry has negative externalities—some way that in the course of getting business done, the world around the business is negatively affected. As…
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17: When You're Not Making Enough Money
Sometimes the most stressful part of work is how little it pays. It can feel like you're doing everything you know how to do, and you still come up short. When…
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16: When Your Job Is a Dumpster Fire (Evelea Solgos)
Chris interviews Evelea Solgos about her harrowing first year working as a teacher, why she stuck it out even though it wasn't what she signed up for, and what…
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15: When You're Facing Burnout at Work
Henri Nouwen calls burnout "a convenient psychological translation for a spiritual death." Sometimes work feels more like death than life. When you're facing…
- Finding God at Work
14: When You're Bored at Work
Work isn't always bursting with excitement. Is there a way to find meaning in the boring moments? Take the course at FindingGodAtWork.org. Quadrants Visual…
- Finding God at Work
13: When You're Facing Racial Injustice at Work (Dr. Luke Bobo)
Chris interviews Dr. Luke Bobo about his 2019 book, Race, Economics, and Apologetics: Is There a Connection?. Hear about how previous policies like redlining…
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12: When Work Feels Empty
Sometimes work feels pointless. We get stuck in the comparison/competition trap, never achieving enough to be content. We get enslaved to our work, sacrificing…
- Finding God at Work
11: When You're Disillusioned About a Leader You Respected
One of the most painful forms of disappointment at work is disappointment in a leader. Sometimes you're excited to work for a specific team or a specific…
- Finding God at Work
10: When Sex Interrupts Your Work Day (Drew Boa)
Chris interviews Drew Boa about his new book, Outgrow Porn: Find Lasting Freedom Without Fighting an Exhausting Battle. We come to work as whole human beings…
- Finding God at Work
9: When You Need to Fire Someone
Firing someone is always an instance of disappointment, right? Whether you hired that person or someone else did, somebody had hopes that this person would…
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8: When You Feel Called to Change Careers
Chris interviews Clare VanderWeele about her decision to leave a relatively cushy gig as a marketing executive in order to become a birth doula and to…
- Finding God at Work
7: When You're Resigned About Your Career
What can you do when the fire has gone out in your career? When you're bruised by injustice or burned missed opportunity, it can feel like the deck is stacked…
- Finding God at Work
6: When You're Bitter About Your Career
"This isn't what I signed up for." Have you ever had that thought about your career? When our careers don't go the way we dreamed or planned, it's easy to slip…
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5: When You're In a Toxic Workplace (Dr. Meryl Herr)
Chris interviews Dr. Meryl Herr about her new book, When Work Hurts: Building Resilience When You're Beat Up or Burnt Out. Hear about how the biblical story of…
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4: When Your Boss Underestimates You
It's so frustrating to be underestimated by your boss. It can be demoralizing, even humiliating. But there's also spiritual opportunity there: opportunity for…
- Finding God at Work
3: When You're Stuck In a Job Below Your Skillset
Our careers don't always keep pace with our capacities. After years of developing a specific skillset, we sometimes find ourselves stuck in a job that doesn't…
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2: When You Lose Your Job
Losing your job can be one of the most miserable experiences of adult life. But could it also be a moment of spiritual opportunity? Sources: Romans 12:15 (NIV)…
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1: Divine Disappointments
We kick off a new series with this episode—Divine Disappointments: Facing Pain and Sorrow at Work. Work isn't just hard. Often, it hurts. It hurts when we're…
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12: More Resources on Faith and Politics
If you want to engage the conversation about faith and politics more deeply, check out these thinkers and leaders. Sources: Proverbs 3:33-34 (ESV) Bonnie…
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11: Witness: Food Insecurity
Can you articulate a commitment to a Gospel value while also charitably presenting the political viewpoint that is opposite to your own? Food insecurity—lack…
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10: Witness: Abortion
What does it look like to bring compassion and conviction together in conversations about abortion? Often, the cultural debate focuses on the question of law…
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9: Witness: Immigration
Migration is part of the story that God is telling in the world. Often, when the topic of immigration comes up, we think about how to defend "our turf." But…
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8: Love and Political Power
"True integration will be achieved by men who are willingly obedient to unenforceable obligations." – Martin Luther King, Jr. Sources: Proverbs 29:4,7,14 (NIV)…
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7: Hope and Political Visions of the Future
Political campaigns are always about the future. From "Let Us Have Peace" (U.S. Grant's 1868 slogan) to FDR's "Happy Days Are Here Again" (1932) to "Change We…
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6: Faith and Political Allegiance
What does it mean to give Jesus our allegiance? When the chips are down and we have to make a choice between loyalty to Jesus and loyalty to country, party, or…
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5: Courageous Political Conversations
When is it right to speak up about a political issue in the workplace? We need discernment. Spouting off every opinion we happen to have is not the same as…
- Finding God at Work
4: Gentle Political Conversations
What adjectives would you use to describe political conversations you've had throughout your life? Awkward? Loaded? Angry? What about . . . gentle? We have…
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3: Thoughtful Political Conversations
When it comes to politics, our personality shapes how we want to engage—or disengage. Maybe you're an armchair pundit, always reading the news and staying…
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2: Prayerful Political Conversations
In the story of Hannah, we see someone coming to God in a moment of profound personal grief. In her "deep anguish," Hannah turns to prayer (1 Samuel 1:10 NIV)…
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1: Take A Stand - Faithful Political Witness at Work
We kick off a new series with this episode—Take A Stand: Faithful Political Witness at Work. Politics this year in the United States and around the world is…
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Monk on a Mission: Abbot Dan Nobles on Contemplative Prayer
Chris interviews Abbot Dan Nobles of Christ Mission Anglican Benedictines and Wandering Monk Hikes. Abbot Dan talks about how he unexpectedly became a monk…
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19: In All Our Inadequacies
We don't just need good teachings or ideas about human nature and mental health. We need a vision of human life and love and work as it's meant to be. When we…
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18: Unlearning Learned Helplessness
Can work be a place of healing? Certain workplaces are traumatizing in themselves. But at its best, work is an ennobling experience. It confirms our sense of…
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17: Trauma
According to the University of Toronto Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), trauma is "the lasting emotional response that often results from living…
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16: Neurodiversity
Every brain is different. That's what "neurodiversity" means. Neuro = brain; diversity = different. Neurodiversity is a feature of human experience, not a bug…
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15: Recovery
The recovery mindset is, "I want to find out where life really is." It's admitting the problem and committing to radical change. It's saying, like David, "For…
- Finding God at Work
14: Addiction
"'I'll quit tomorrow,' I would say to myself—but tomorrow never came." That's how Bob Poznanovich describes his experience of addiction. Have you ever told…
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13: Anxiety
Anxiety is part of human experience for everyone. At the same time, some people experience more intense or persistent anxiety than others. For most of us…
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12: Depression and the Soul
Your soul is a relater, meant to connect with God and other people. Your soul is a receiver, meant to take beauty in. Your soul is an integrator, meant to put…
- Finding God at Work
11: Depression and Will
When you're depressed, it affects all aspects of your life and personality, including your will. Depression can make it harder to choose, to make decisions…
- Finding God at Work
10: Depression and Weakness
According to a 2023 Gallup survey, one in three U.S. adults have been diagnosed with depression at some point in their lifetimes. I'm one of those adults…
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9: Soul as Receiver
"Beauty points the way home." That's scholar Gregory E. Ganssle's way of putting it. When we stop to pay attention, we notice that "there's something there"…
- Finding God at Work
7: Soul as Relater
So many workplace interactions are soulless: transactional, manipulative, self-interested. You can smell other people's "commission breath"; they're after…
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6: Body
Your body is always with you when you're at work. You can't do your work without it. Scripture teaches us that the body is a gift. All of our work depends on…
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5: Heart
Each of us has within us a center that gives us life and determines the direction of our life: our heart. Your heart can turn one way or the other. It's your…
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4: Freedom from Resentment
Our thoughts and our feelings can inform each other rather than compete with each other. When we're emotionally self-aware in the workplace, it actually helps…
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3: Feelings
Spiritual director Alice Fryling calls our feelings "the spontaneous response we give to our interpretation of an event." Often, our immediate emotional…
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2: Thoughts
What does it mean to "love the Lord your God with all your mind" while doing your daily job? Often, it means embracing the pain of thinking hard about things…
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1: Whole-Hearted
We kick off a new series with this episode—Whole-Hearted: Becoming Healthier Christians at Work. If you're like me, your work and your mental health influence…
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Bonus: We Tell Something Good
A couple months back, Chris got to preach this sermon at his home church, City of Light. Its focus is Jesus' call of the first disciples: Jesus tenderly…
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23: Sharing the Good News of the Beauty of Jesus
After the episode, hear from Chris about the Finding God at Work online course! Evangelism at its best is helping people catch a vision of just how beautiful…