Re-integrate

Our work situations, family and friendships, and everything around us always change. How do we navigate through the fog of not knowing what will happen next and where we are ultimately going? This episode features two guests who can help us navigate a life that is always in flux. Leadership, career, and vocation experts Michaela O'Donnell and Lisa Pratt Slayton teach the practical skills needed to...

We have a wealth of information at our fingertips, but information is not the same as wisdom. Whether in business, spiritual life, or everyday decisions, we need wisdom’s guidance to lead with purpose and meaning.  We would do well to learn over their shoulders and through their hearts from those with real-life experience and deep resources for wisdom.  With decades of leadership experience in bus...

The Letter of Paul to the Ephesians is filled with excellent teachings to guide us theologically and practically. We have invited Lynn H. Cohick, PhD, to discuss Ephesians based on her new commentary in the New International Commentary on the New Testament (Eerdmans, 2020) . Scroll down to learn more about Dr. Lynn Cohick. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app! Dr. Lynn H. Cohick Dr. Cohick is Di...

To help us, as Christians, have a clear understanding of modern-day Israel, and how it relates to the Bible, we have asked one of the nation’s foremost authorities on the subject onto the podcast. Dr. Gary Burge (Ph. D., from King’s College at the University of Aberdeen, and M.Div., from Fuller Theological Seminary) is a New Testament scholar, professor, author, and ordained minister. After 25 yea...

There was a time, back in the 70s and early 80s, when the study of Revelation, with speculations about the end times and being “left behind,” was in vogue. But today, most Christians stay away from Revelation. Preachers either ignore it or choose to teach from the safer passages, like chapters 2 through 4, or about the New Heavens and New Earth in the final two chapters. The reason is that so many...

Here at Reintegrate, we believe that through your day-to-day work, you are on the frontlines of ministry, serving others – your customers or clients, your suppliers, your co-workers, and the community in which you work. Women now have professional opportunities beyond those of previous generations. But sadly, as women have seen their roles grow at work, the church's vision for women's work and cal...

Yes, we should reintegrate the Christian faith with science. But what if that means that we should look for the creator God in every aspect of God’s creation? What if the Bible and science are meant not only to coexist but actually to inform one another? John Van Sloten has written God Speaks Science: What Neurons, Giant Squid, and Supernovae Reveal about Our Creator (Moody, 2023), in which he div...

“The Great Commission” ( Matthew 28:16-20 ) is the central driving mission for God’s people. But here is a question to consider: How does this commission that churches have for people relate to the mission that God has for every aspect of life? Before we know what our mission is, we must first know what God’s mission is.  Scroll down to read more about this episode. Subscribe on your favorite podc...

We love to talk movies on the Re-integrate Podcast. Why? Because we want to reintegrate our enjoyment of pop culture with our Christian faith. Our guest on this episode is film critic Josh Larsen . He is co-host of the WBEZ (Chicago’s NPR station) radio show Filmspotting , which is also one of the top movie podcasts. Josh is also the editor and producer for Think Christian , a website and podcast...

Scroll down to read the episode description. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app! Episode Description: Many Christians must deal with some sort of mental or emotional suffering. While life is a good creation from a loving God, in a fallen and broken world, normal human life can be really difficult. While we have made tremendous advancements in therapy and psychiatry, the burden of living still...

Scroll down to read the episode description. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app! Episode Description: What does it mean to be human? We live in an age of many voices trying to shape our understanding of who we are and what we are supposed to do.  Our guest on this episode is Dr. Carmen Joy Imes (PhD, Wheaton). She is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Biola University and the author of Be...

Scroll down to read the episode description. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app! Episode Description: For many American Christians, the presumptive next big event in redemptive history will be the Rapture. Many believers have been influenced by the fictional stories of the  Left Behind novels and movies which depict military conflict in Israel, the Rapture in which all true believers are taken...

There have been Christians throughout history who God has called to societal activism on behalf of the poor and oppressed. And the power in which they did so was found in their inner faith practices that connected them intimately with God through Christ and His Spirit. Mae Elise Cannon is the author of Just Spirituality: How Faith Practices Fuel Social Action (IVPress, 2013). As both a historian a...

What would you say if you were completely honest with yourself and with God? Jennifer Dukes Lee leads David and Bob (and you!) on a journey of telling truths, some fun and some painful, through her new book, Stuff I’d Only Tell God: A Guided Journal of Courageous Honesty, Obsessive Truth-Telling, and Beautifully Ruthless Self-Discovery (Bethany House, 2023). With daring questions, provocative list...

This episode of the Reintegrate Podcast is a little different in that we live-streamed it in conjunction with the Logos Daily Circle . Our guest is Jason Stone, the founder of the Logos Daily Circle. This is the first of what we are hoping will be a new joint venture between Reintegrate and Logos Daily to feature our guests to the huge community in the Logos Daily Circle.  TIME STAMPS What we disc...

Michaela O'Donnell , PhD, is the Executive Director of the Max De Pree Center for Leadership at Fuller Seminary, which helps leaders respond faithfully to God in all seasons of their life, work, and leadership. Her book, Make Work Matter : Your Guide to Meaningful Work in a Changing World (Baker, 2021) is based on her deep research and is filled with stories and insights from faithful entrepreneur...

Have you ever had a profound experience while watching a movie? When you were so overwhelmed by emotion that you could call it spiritual? In his book Seeing Is Believing: The Revelation of God Through Film (IVP, 2022), theologian Richard Vance Goodwin argues that such experiences may sometimes be encounters with God. He explores how certain films use various visual strategies to invite viewers to...

How are you at managing your time? Perhaps the problem is that you are trying to "manage" your time when you are called to "redeem" your time. In this episode, we discuss with Jordan Raynor some principles to reintegrate our faith with our work (and all of life) so that we become more like Jesus Christ in his time on earth: purposeful, productive, and present. Jordan Raynor is a leading voice in t...

We all are fascinated with the End Times. What is our final destiny? This is eschatology . If we were to take a random survey of Christians in North America, we would hear something like this: Our destiny is heaven. When we die, we go off to our home with Jesus, worshiping God for all eternity in an otherworldly existence. We will finally shed this earthly life and live as God wants us to live, wi...

The world’s most outspoken atheist, Richard Dawkins, wrote in his book, The God Delusion ,  “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadom...

Does the American evangelical church need a wake-up call? Have we become unaware of our blind spots? Our guest on this episode is Matthew Soerens. Matthew is the U.S. Director of Church Mobilization for World Relief , where he helps evangelical churches understand the realities of refugees and immigration and to respond in ways guided by biblical values. He is also the national coordinator of the...

For Christians who work in engineering and developing technology, it's not always clear how their faith and work integrate. How can designing and using technology actually be a way of loving God and our neighbors?   On this episode, we interview three veteran engineers to understand how that particular vocation can be reintegrated with the mission of God.   Our guests have co-written a truly uniqu...

There is a crisis of knowledge that we are all experiencing. It seems that nobody trusts what anybody else is saying. In politics and in the media, on social networks, there has been an increasing inability to discern truth.  What causes us to explore conspiracy theories?  How can we know when someone is telling a half-truth for political ends?  What is the way forward for Christians as we try to...

You're not supposed to “let God take control” of your life and work. You're not supposed to “hear God’s voice in your heart.” And, you're not supposed to be guided by God’s Holy Spirit by inner feelings of peace, intuitions, or impressions. These are three things believers have recently come to believe as being essential to being Christian. But according to our guest Phillip Cary, they are not fou...

How do I navigate the work world as a Christian? My work matters but should I get my identity from what I do? How can I live with integrity, doing good work while also being authentic in who I am? Denise Lee Yohn is a keynote speaker, consultant, and writer on brand leadership . She has led seminars at such places as Facebook, Lexus, the NFL, and more. When she started her professional career, Den...