Phil Ryken: Living with Dual Callings

Addiction has a pervasive impact on our culture, ranging from legally available opioids and alcohol to illicit narcotics; addiction even manifests itself in mundane areas of our lives as well.

Suffering is at the core of the Christian story, yet our experience of suffering as Christians creates all kinds of cognitive, spiritual, and emotional dissonance. Tim Challies, Dan’s guest on this episode of Working with Dan Doriani, explicitly identifies this tension when he asks: “When we faced this time of tragedy, it was the time to ask: what is all this theology going to do for you? In your moment of need, are you going to turn away from it, or are you going to go deeper into it?”

Jessica Patterson Long is a foreign service officer in the US State Department who works to mitigate the effects of the fall in her work — combating food scarcity, terrorism, and harmful leadership.

This week Dan sits down with CEO and artificial intelligence expert David Karandish. Karandish answers all our pressing questions about A.I. like: when do we need to start fearing the rise of the machines?

Dan sits down with seven-time Emmy award winning sportscaster Joe Buck and talks family, legacy, charity, the perils of social media, and of course — sports.

“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.”