Michaela O’Donnell on the Sound of the Genuine Podcast
Michaela O’Donnell joined Patrick B. Reyes of the Forum for Theological Education on his Sound of the Genuine podcast. Michaela spoke with Patrick about the role of context and constraints in helping her integrate her faith into her life, work, and leadership.
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Resources for When Work Is Difficult
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, it felt like we slipped from relative calm into utter chaos overnight. On Thursday evening, I met my best friend for coffee at our favorite local spot. The next morning, we received a notice from my boys’ school that at-home learning would begin that day.
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Meryl Herr on the Viral Jesus Podcast
Meryl Herr joined Heather Thompson Day, host of the Viral Jesus podcast, for the show’s Hashtag Blessed segment to talk about our mentoring research.
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Meet the Team: What’s On Our Shelves and Playlists
At the De Pree Center, we have an amazing staff. When we interview candidates for job openings, they often ask the hiring committee what they love about their jobs, and we can’t not talk about our team.
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Resources for Lent
In the early church, some Christians began observing a special season to help them prepare for Good Friday and Easter. For forty days, not counting Sundays, Jesus’ followers focused on repentance and turning to God in faith.
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The Weary Worker Rejoices
I am weary and so are you. I learned why from a treasured mentor. “The pandemic was not one crisis,” he explained, “it was four crises. We experienced a health crisis, an economic crisis, a racial crisis, and a political crisis all at the same time.” The crises washed over us like waves.
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Teach Us How to Pray: A List of Prayer Collections
Healthy marketplace leaders know how to pray. And they do it often. When we interviewed exemplary Christian marketplace leaders for our research study, they…
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Lament in the Time of Layoffs
Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, Lyft, Vimeo, Wayfair, Stitch Fix, and Goldman Sachs. Hasbro, Dow, IBM, 3M, and Spotify. All of them are recognizable, reputable brands making headlines in early 2023 for announcing layoffs. Some of these companies are letting go of up to 10% of their employees.
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Relationships and “The Good Life”
“If you had to make one life choice, right now, to set yourself on the path to future health and happiness, what would it be?”
So, how would you answer that question? What one choice could you make right now that would point you in the direction of a fruitful and fulfilling life?
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The Benefit (and Risk) of Leading with Care
For the last 18 months, I’ve been enamored by the question: What does it look like to lead in a distinctively Christian way? I’m curious partly because of my work at the De Pree Center. Partly because I believe that faith ought to play out in an embodied way in my own work.
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Solid Lessons for Being a Good Leader
1.3 billion. That’s the number of results Google returned when I searched “how to be a better leader at work” in December 2022.
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The Daily Practice: A Tool to Help You Apply the Bible to Your Life, Work, And Leadership
This four-step process, modeled off the practice of Lectio Divina, will help you prayerfully reflect on how the Bible relates to your life, work, and leadership.
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New Year, New Intentions Sticky Note Exercise
At the De Pree Center, we’re big fans of sticky notes. We’ve created this sticky note exercise to help you reflect on the past year and set some intentions for the next.
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Advent and Intergenerational Hope
Recently, I was working my way through the Psalms, looking for passages that address the Advent themes of hoping and waiting. I came upon a fascinating passage in Psalm 78. It’s one I’d read many times before, but never from the perspective of Advent. Moreover, with my deep interest in things related to the third third of life, I saw truths in this passage I had never seen before.
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New Year, New Intentions
I’ve never liked making New Year’s Resolutions. It’s probably because I’m terrible at keeping them.
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