Bob Robinson
Bob is the Executive Director of Reintegrate. View his full bio here.
Bob is the Executive Director of Reintegrate. View his full bio here.
How do we invite God into our everyday work lives? We spend most of our time not at church or in a quiet place, but at work! How do we find God there? In a new book, Working in the Presence of God: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Work (Hendrickson Publishers in partnership with the Theology of Work Project, 2019), co-authors Denise Daniels and Shannon Vandewarker help us to create practices within our work-a-day lives to see where God is already present in our work environment. If we want to be transformed into Christ’s likeness, the great place for that to happen is where we spend so much of our time and energy: Our work.
In this episode, we interview one of the authors of this book. Denise Daniels, Ph.D., was recently appointed the Hudson T. Harrison Professor of Entrepreneurship at Wheaton College.
Are you a recent college graduate, or an upper-classman in college, or have a loved one in that stage of life? It is an anxious time, transitioning out of college. New careers, new places to live, new relationships. A lot is changing. Today’s guest has lots of practical wisdom and tools to help with the transition.
Erica Young Reitz is the principal and founder of After College Transition. She has several years of college ministry experience working for the CCO and directing a program at Penn State University called Senior EXIT, which prepares students for life after college. She is the author of After College: Navigating Transitions, Relationships and Faith (InterVarsity Press) and you can find articles by her in Christianity Today, Relevant Magazine, The Gospel Coalition, and Collegiate Collective.
What does it take for Christians to pursue “shalom” in every corner of society? How can churches be a blessing to their communities in practical ways to actually make life better for those who live there?
Our guest is Dr. Amy Sherman, the author of several books, manuals, and over 80 articles and essays. Her last book, Kingdom Calling: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good from InterVarsity Press, won Christianity Today’s 2013 Book of the Year in the Christian Living category.
We discuss how churches can make positive impacts in six areas: (1) The True, (2) The Good, (3) The Beautiful, (4) The Prosperous, (5) The Just and Well-Ordered, and (6) The Sustainable.
Matthew Kaemingk (co-author, with Calvin Seminary professor Cory Willson, of Work and Worship: Reconnecting Our Labor and Liturgy) tells us that faith and work are best reintegrated through gathered worship. Sunday worship that is “vocationally conversant” purposefully invites Christians to bring our work into the church gathering where we can engage God with it. The rituals of Sunday worship should strengthen our spiritual muscles so that we can do good work for God’s glory. Sunday worship is meant to gather us in order to disperse us, called to serve others in our work and proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ.
Dr. Matthew Kaemingk serves as associate dean and assistant professor of Christian Ethics at the Texas campus of Fuller Theological Seminary.
What does it look like to be a Christian at work? How can we be healthy and whole people who are better able to contribute? What is our mission in the workplace? How can we be agents of justice in and through our work?
Our guest on this episode of the Reintegrate Podcast is Lisa Slayton. Lisa is the founder of Tamim Partners where she comes alongside leaders and their teams to grow in wholeness and cohesion as they seek to serve their organizations for the common good and for the flourishing of their city and the world. She is also the Director of CityGate, a new initiative of the Denver Institute for Faith and Work, which is creating a community of workers, leaders, thinkers, and makers committed to both personal transformation and bringing healing change to their cities through holistic expressions of the gospel.
What is the greatest need for Christians who have leadership roles in their companies or institutions? Our guest today is Suzi Lantz, a senior consultant with GiANT Worldwide, training leaders to increase their leadership skills, communicate effectively, and excel at work (and life). Suzi believes that the greatest need is for leaders to become healthy themselves, to know themselves to lead themselves, for the sake of loving those they lead to become all God wants them to be.
Are you experiencing loneliness? We drive to work. We drive back home from work. We watch some TV. When we have some free time, we are scrolling through something on our smartphones. No wonder we’re so lonely! We’ve been set up to not be connected to our neighbors.
This episode features Dr. Eric O. Jacobsen. Eric is the senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Tacoma, Washington, and received his Ph.D. from Fuller Theological Seminary. His latest book is Three Pieces of Glass: Why We Feel Lonely in a World Mediated by Screens (Brazos Press, 2020). As the subtitle suggests, we are experiencing loneliness because we spend so much time not walking among people so that we can have authentic relationships. Rather, our world is mediated through our windshields, our televisions, and our smartphones.
How and why should we read the Bible? Why is evil a bad reason to not believe in God? Why is evil the best reason to believe in Jesus? What does the Bible teach about slavery?
These are the questions we ask Dr. Michael Wittmer, Professor of Theology at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary and the Director of the Christian Worldview Center at Cornerstone University. His latest book is The Bible Explainer: Questions and Answers on Origins, the Old Testament, Jesus, the End Times, and More (Barbour Books, 2020). We ask only a handful of the 251 questions asked and explained in this book.
Insurrectionists storming the Capitol and Senator Josh Hawley, who supported those who stormed the Capitol, invoking the name of Abraham Kuyper. How can white evangelicals learn from this ugly chapter on America’s history? What can we do, as we seek to follow the Lord Jesus Christ, to move forward? As a Black man and an evangelical theological scholar, Dr. Vincent Bacote is able to help white Christians better navigate the nexus of evangelical culture, politics, theology, and race. Vincent Bacote, PhD, is Associate Professor of Theology and the Director of Center for Applied Christian Ethics at Wheaton College. He is the author of Reckoning with Race and Performing the Good News: In Search of a Better Evangelical Theology.
Our guest on this episode of the Reintegrate Podcast is Sam Van Eman, author of Disruptive Discipleship: The Power of Breaking Routine to Kickstart Your Faith (InterVarsity Press, 2017). As a specialist with the CCO’s Experiential Designs team, Sam creates disruptive and transformational experiences that are designed to jolt us and reorient people so that they can grow in discipleship to Jesus Christ. In this episode, Sam provides insights into how we can get our faith unstuck by intentionally creating space for spiritual growth.
We are blessed to have Sam Van Eman, author of Disruptive Discipleship: The Power of Breaking Routine to Kickstart Your Faith (InterVarsity Press, 2017) on for two episodes. Here, right before Christmas, Sam shares with Bob and Brendan ways we can ignite Christmas hope in the midst of hardship. How can hope be defined by adaptability so that our days are full of Christmas wonder? Sam sparks our imaginations as to how we can do things out of the ordinary for those around us.
What are we saved for?
God’s inviting us to join his mission to reconcile all things back to himself. JR Rozko helps Bob and Brendan understand the connections between salvation, discipleship, and mission. Salvation is the embodied experience of participating in what God is now doing in the world. “Discipleship is less about me trying to be like Jesus, and more about me trying to live my life as though Jesus were me.” JR is the Executive Director of The Telos Collective, a national church leadership training organization of the Anglican Church in North America.