
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

Dec 15, 2021 • 46min
Steph Hubach: Living Wisely with Our Abilities and Disabilities
Steph Hubach is a Research Fellow in Disability Ministry with Covenant Seminary, author of two books on disability in the church, and formerly the director of Mission to North America's Special Needs Ministries. Steph offers a theologically robust and deeply personal vision for what the gospel tells us about disability in both its physical and social dimensions. She reminds us that we are all a mix of both the blessedness of creation and the brokenness of the fall; we all have capacities as well as vulnerabilities--and it is especially in those places of weakness that God delights to work.
Check out Stephanie Hubach's latest book, Parenting & Disabilities: Abiding in God's Presence
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Dec 8, 2021 • 46min
Dan Allender, Therapist: Engaging Trauma in a Fallen World
Dan Allender, prominent Christian therapist, author, professor, and speaker who focuses on sexual abuse, trauma recovery, and story sits down with us to discuss his calling. Allender's passion for engaging with the brokenness of this world is born out of his own palpable delight in the gospel of Jesus. The Dans discuss a whole range of topics from facing our own death, to journaling, to narcissism in the Church and workplace. There's something for everyone in here, and above all is the invitation to delight daily in the extravagant, playful, awesome goodness of Christ.
Check out Dan Allender's latest book, Redeeming Heartache: How Past Suffering Reveals Our True Calling
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Dec 1, 2021 • 48min
Governor Bill Haslam: A Faithful Presence in Politics
Whether you are finding yourself over-invested in or completely jaded by the drama of American politics, this is the episode for you. Bill Haslam is the former Mayor of Knoxville and Governor of Tennessee, and the author of Faithful Presence: The Promise and the Peril of Faith in the Public Square. For Governor Haslam, the work of the Christian in politics is to exercise faithful presence--neither withdrawing, nor assimilating with the broader culture. Haslam offers refreshing, and often surprising insights from his own experience in politics, and invites us ask "how do we [as Christians] act in a different way [in politics] so that we really are salt and light in the public square?"
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Oct 6, 2021 • 58min
Tim Persons, Physicist and Administrator: Serving the Public through Science
In this, our final episode of season 2, Dan chats with Dr. Timothy Persons, the chief scientist and one of the managing directors for the Government Accountability Office. We don't often think about this part of the US government, but they do the essential behind the scenes work of offering scientific, economic, and sociological insight, oversight and foresight into all policies and laws put forward by congress. Dr. Persons holds degrees Nuclear Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Executive Leadership and offers us an insightful look into what faithfulness looks like in the worlds of science and public policy. In this secular age, Dr. Persons reminds us that "we live in miracles... science should engender awe because it points us to something bigger."
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Sep 29, 2021 • 47min
Nancy Gruneisen, Children’s Librarian: Curating Curiosity
"Books are like windows," shares this week's guest Nancy Gruneisen, "you can see another time, another world, another culture. But they can also be mirrors. Children want to see themselves in the books they are reading." Nancy is a children's librarian at a local St. Louis elementary school and is a perfect example of how exercising quiet, yet strong faithfulness to God's kingdom in your work can bring joy and beauty to your corner (or reading nook) of the world.
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Sep 22, 2021 • 49min
Bob Yarbrough, the Lumberjack and Theologian: On Working Hard
Dr. Robert Yarbrough: author, educator, scholar, and tree feller. Bob has written many books and articles including Clash of Visions: Populism and Elitism in New Testament Theology and The Letters to Timothy and Titus. He is also a professor of both Greek and New Testament at Covenant Theological Seminary, where he is known for regaling students with stories of his lumberjack days, and gracing a lucky few with a glimpse at his axe collection. Dan and Bob chat about what it looks like, regardless of your station, to work heartily, as for the Lord. Straddling the worlds of white and blue collar vocations, Dr. Yarbrough demonstrates, both through his own experiences and his study of the new testament, a vision of work that is rooted in discipline and endurance.
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Sep 15, 2021 • 1h 1min
Rick Horton: Baseball, the Media, and Discipleship
Rick Horton is a broadcaster and color commentator for the St. Louis Cardinals and a leader in the organization Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Rick was also a pitcher in Major League Baseball himself for a number of years, and offers a perspective on the game, media, and criticism from his vantage points both on and off the field. While not many of us will know what it's like to sit in the broadcasting booth, Horton is immensely relatable and offers insights on things that are important regardless of your career field: speaking the truth in love, navigating a changing culture, as well as evangelism and discipleship in the work place.
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Sep 8, 2021 • 59min
Irwyn Ince: Race and Friendship in Church and Society
Irwyn Ince is the coordinator of the PCA's Mission to North America (MNA), a Council member of The Gospel Coalition, as well as the director of the Grace DC Institute for Cross-Cultural Mission, which offers practical training for churches and other faith based organizations on how to lead their congregations toward an intentionally multi-racial and multi-ethnic future. Ince is also the author The Beautiful Community: Unity, Diversity, and the Church at Its Best.
Listen in and hear Dan and Irwyn's candid and grace-filled conversation about race and diversity in both the church and workplace; and get a sneak peek at a project these two friends are working on together.
Get a copy of The Beautiful Community: HERE
Check out ICCM: https://gracedc.institute/
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Sep 1, 2021 • 54min
Jessica Patterson Long: Foreign Policy as Challenge and Privilege
Jessica Patterson Long is a foreign service officer in the US State Department, currently serving in Namibia. Jessica is a seminary grad, but was encouraged by her professors to pursue her godly passion for justice through global politics. Jessica has worked to mitigate the effects of the fall in her work--combating food scarcity, terrorism, and harmful leadership. We hope you will enjoy Dan and Jessica's conversation and, regardless of your work or authority level, consider how you too can endeavor to promote justice and mitigate evil in your corner of the world.
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Aug 25, 2021 • 57min
John Hendrix, Graphic Novelist: Art, Illustration, and Story
John Hendrix is a New York Times Bestselling illustrator and author of many children's books, including Shooting at the Stars, Drawing is Magic, John Brown: His Fight for Freedom, Miracle Man: The Story of Jesus, The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler. Dan and John discuss joy and struggles in the creative process, perseverance in the face of obstacles, and the clarity and mystery of art. They also spend some time on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his work subverting the Nazi regime.
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