Finding God at Work

In a couple words, how would you describe the best coworker you've ever had? Maybe kind , honest or hard-working . Now, how about the worst coworker you've ever had? Those words might be harder to come by. We don't tend...

Chris interviews Bonnie Kristian, author and deputy editor at Christianity Today , on her new book In Defense of Evangelicalism: A Response to Its Cultured Despisers . The book addresses the intersection of faith and...

Have you ever made a fantastic investment? Maybe it's your retirement savings, a mutual fund, or a beautiful set of Cutco knives. When Chris was a little kid, he asked his dad to buy him stock in a company called World...

When you receive a birthday or anniversary card, you often see two sets of writing: the elegantly worded section from the author at the card company, and a personal, handwritten note from the person giving you the card...

What do you think you'll do on a normal workday 10,000 years from now? In the new heavens and the new earth, we'll be working. We often think of the new heavens and the new earth as a setting of rest and celebration...

Have you ever had to slow down to keep pace with someone else? In this episode of Finding God at Work, Chris considers when love requires us to put on the brakes. Drawing on Pope Leo XIV's recent encyclical, Magnifica...

When we evaluate the vitality of a local church, we typically count heads in pews, measure annual giving, or analyze Sunday volunteer teams. But what happens when a pastor steps back and realizes that his congregation...

When preparing to lay the brick and mortar for a new business facility, the engineers and architects make sure the foundation is structurally secure. But when FONA International built its headquarters in Geneva...

For many driven professionals, the cultural prescription for career success is simple: push harder, move faster, and accumulate more. We wrap our identities in our productivity, white-knuckling our way through demanding...

Few things crush a professional ego faster than throwing your entire heart into a project, only to watch it completely flop. Chris knows that feeling! In the early days of Mission Central, he spent weeks making phone...

How would you explain the meaning of a kiss to an alien who had never seen one? You could describe it anatomically, of course, or define it abstractly as a symbol of romantic affection. But a kiss isn't experienced as a...

Many of us look at the word entrepreneur and picture a distinct archetype: a natural risk-taker, someone driven by economic opportunities and a lifelong dream of building an enterprise from the ground up. But what...

Have you ever been sitting in a church service, looked down at the bulletin to see the morning's scripture reading, and internally gasped, "Oh no, not that passage?" Whether it is a dense theological directive on...

We have a habit of building beautiful, sacred structures and then assuming they will take care of themselves. In our excitement to build the "new, shiny thing," we frequently forget the quiet, unglamorous work of taking...

Not long ago, Chris and his wife Katie—a hospice nurse practitioner—were watching an intense emergency room drama called The Pitt . In one scene, the doctors run a series of lab tests on a critical patient and one of...