Shelly Milligan is the Managing Director of the Carver Institute, an organization geared towards empowering Christian faculty and students (particularly at secular universities) to serve and connect university, church, and society. She previously served as Associate Provost at Washington University in St. Louis and as the Assistant Head of School at Westminster Christian Academy. Shelley shares her own career journey, where at times she was stepping outside her realm of qualification, and at other times she seemed to move backward in the “success” hierarchy. Shelley helps us explore how ambition, qualification, and competence function in God’s upside-down kingdom where it is often the foolish, weak, and powerless who are called to positions of authority and responsibility.
Some reflection questions: Have you had the experience of God calling you outside your comfort or qualification zone? What was that like? What do you think of Shelley’s point that with privilege comes both opportunities and responsibilities?
Dan Allender, a 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.
In this episode Dan and former Senator Jim Talent discuss the timely questions: what are the responsibilities of a politician to the people they govern?
“Our creativity is better with seasons of rest,” says Kelly Kapic, author of “You’re Only Human: How Your Limits Reflect God’s Design and Why That’s Good News” and today’s guest on Working with Dan Doriani. Rest is a reflection of our limitations, and limitations are more broadly a sign of our humanness. God made us finite, with boundaries to what we can accomplish. Our creatureliness, our dependency, and our finitude lead us toward humility, or at least it ought to. Dan and Kelly work through all the implications of being human in this illuminating conversation.
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 and the Peril of Faith in the Public Square.”
John Kramer, Chairman, and CEO of Cambridge Air Solutions has made it his mission to restore glory and dignity to the manufacturing industry. He does this through genuine, palpable care for his employees that manifests itself through both unconditional love and high expectations.
On this episode our guest is Ray Cortese, the self-professed “unspiritual” pastor who has spent over 40 years at the same small town church in Florida. Ray shares his own story of his life and call to ministry, and through it offers a candid testimony to all of us about the power of God to transform human ambition for His own purposes.
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