Disagreeing Without Losing Your Soul: Gavin Ortlund, Apologist and Podcaster

Wheaton College's Denise Daniels draws on research with thousands of American workers to help us have a more holistic vision of how our work matters to us, to our neighbors, to our families, and to God.

Dan Doriani and Mark Vroegop talk about the work Christians do and why our Sunday morning worship should prepare us to love our neighbors and serve the common good Monday through Saturday.

Dan Doriani and Mark Vroegop talk with Christians from a wide range of professions about how biblical wisdom shapes the way we work, lead, serve, and live faithfully in our corner of the world.

Dr. Lydia Dugdale is a medical ethicist who wants us to rethink the way that we die. From her interests in medicine and religion, she's revived the "Ars Moriendi" (literature on the art of dying) for the modern age. She joins Dan on this episode to discuss her book and why living well means preparing to die well. Buy Dr. Dugdale's Book: The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom: Dugdale, L.S.: 9780062932648: Amazon.com: Books

Longtime pastor and author Scotty Smith — founding pastor of Christ Community Church in Franklin, TN, and author of the daily prayer blog Heavenward — joins Dan for a conversation that starts with grace and ends up somewhere more personal. They dig into what Dan calls "horizontal legalism": the subtle habit of keeping a mental ledger of the good we've done for others, and quietly expecting it to be repaid in favor, attention, or love. From there the conversation moves into what that looks like at work (bosses, firing, being "the boss God gave you") and at home (grandkids, marriage, aging out of a leadership role), before Scotty opens up about growing up as what he calls an "emotional orphan" and how that shaped the way he — and many high-performing leaders — chase approval without realizing it.