
Working with Dan Doriani
This podcast seeks to fire the imagination of Christians who long to practice their faith at work. The podcast features interviews of people who try to practice their faith at work. Guests may be famous or unknown. They may be very successful, quietly faithful, or instructive in their woes. We typically interview mature Christians, but there are exceptions. The common thread is a desire to live by one’s faith and convictions. Guests include professional athletes, award-winning broadcasters, a librarian, a surgeon, a Harvard-educated opioid addict, politicians, and more.
Latest episodes

14 snips
Feb 14, 2024 • 55min
Brent Harriman, Pastor, Former Campus Minister
Explore the challenges of work-life balance in ministry, importance of self-care and relationships for pastors, balancing multiple roles in leadership positions, reflections on marriage and significance in ministry, embracing challenges for long-term satisfaction, and the rewards of dedicated labor and friendship.

Feb 7, 2024 • 32min
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.
To find out more about Dr. Dan Doriani and the Center for Faith and Work, or to sign up to join or lead a cohort, visit our website.
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Purchase Dan's latest book: https://www.prpbooks.com/book/work-that-makes-a-difference

Jan 31, 2024 • 52min
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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Jan 24, 2024 • 38min
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.
Purchase Rico’s book on evangelism here: Christianity Explored
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Nov 1, 2023 • 54min
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.
To find out more about Dr. Dan Doriani and the Center for Faith and Work, or to sign up to join or lead a cohort, visit our website.
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Purchase Dan's latest book: https://www.prpbooks.com/book/work-that-makes-a-difference

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Oct 25, 2023 • 40min
Katherine Alsdorf, Author, Former Executive Director of Redeemer’s Center for Faith and Work
Former Executive Director of Redeemer’s Center for Faith and Work, Katherine Alsdorf, discusses her career in hi-tech, her perspective on Faith and Work, and the challenges women face in the workplace. Topics include the intersection of faith and professional life, leadership opportunities for women in tech, the importance of speaking truth and making strategic decisions, and encouraging women in the corporate world.

Oct 18, 2023 • 56min
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/
To find out more about Dr. Dan Doriani and the Center for Faith and Work, or to sign up to join or lead a cohort, visit our website.
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Purchase Dan's latest book: https://www.prpbooks.com/book/work-that-makes-a-difference

Oct 11, 2023 • 43min
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.
Purchase Jen’s most recent work here: Teach us to Want
To find out more about Dr. Dan Doriani and the Center for Faith and Work, or to sign up to join or lead a cohort, visit our website.
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Purchase Dan's latest book: https://www.prpbooks.com/book/work-that-makes-a-difference

Oct 4, 2023 • 55min
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
Purchase Russ’ most recent work here: Rembrandt is in the Wind
To find out more about Dr. Dan Doriani and the Center for Faith and Work, or to sign up to join or lead a cohort, visit our website.
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YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCuD3xLksTdBhMX0R3lTY4gQ
Purchase Dan's latest book: https://www.prpbooks.com/book/work-that-makes-a-difference

Sep 27, 2023 • 40min
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
Purchase Collin’s most recent work here: Tim Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation
To find out more about Dr. Dan Doriani and the Center for Faith and Work, visit our website.
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