Reintegrate

03/11/2026

N. T. Wright is perhaps the most influential New Testament scholar of our generation. He is the author of over seventy books, many of which are highly regarded as top academic scholarship. But his influence on regular run-of-the-mill Christians is greatest through his many books written at a more popular level, including the three books "Simply Christian," "Simply Jesus," "After You Believe," and, of course, "Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church."

In "Surprised by Hope," Tom Wright dismantled the narrative we all assumed was the gospel story: that we are saved in order to go to heaven. He wrote that our hope for the future is our physical resurrection to live with God in the New Heavens and New Earth.

This new book, "God’s Homecoming: The Forgotten Promise of Future Renewal" (HarperOne, 2025), almost serves as a sequel to that. He returns to the grand narrative of the Bible and explains that God’s promise has always been that he would dwell with humans in a renewed creation.

In this podcast episode, we discuss how God’s home has been, and always will be, with us. We go through several scripture passages that seem to say we go off to Heaven to live forever, instead of God coming to Earth to live with US forever. What a great conversation.

03/03/2026

“The way we are, we are members of each other. All of us. Everything. The difference ain’t in who is a member and who is not, but who knows it and who don’t. “
- Wendell Berry

01/08/2026

The Joy and Challenges of Today's Work (podcast) with Dr. Chip Roper.
God did not create work to be drudgery, but due to the effects of the Fall and our sinfulness, work can definitely not be what it should be. But that does not mean that work is all bad.

In fact, work is where we often find purpose and joy.

Dr. Chip Roper is the Founder and President of the VOCA Center. The VOCA Center is a faith-based organization that brings God's wisdom to your work through teaching, coaching, and leadership development.

It recently partnered with the Barna Group to conduct a research survey to discover what brings joy and what brings challenges in the contemporary workplace.

Our conversation with Chip:
> We discuss practical strategies to increase joy at work for both workers and leaders.
> The study discovered that the majority of U.S. adult workers (7 out of 10) say that they experience joy more than half the time they’re at work.
> What brings us joy at work includes (1) work relationships, (2) our achievements and purpose, and (3) helping others and making a difference.
> Workers who derive their primary satisfaction from helping others are nearly 3 times more likely to experience high levels of joy compared to those motivated primarily by financial rewards.
> Gen Z and Millennial workers seek meaning beyond the paycheck and find joy in helping others in and through their work.
> While relationships with people bring joy at work, what’s ironic is that this is the same category that scored high on what creates challenges at work.

https://open.substack.com/pub/bobrobinsonre/p/the-joy-and-challenges-of-todays?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

President of the VOCA Center.

12/01/2025

Some people are lucky enough to get paid to do what they love. But many are not.

In her book, "You Have a Calling: Finding Your Vocation in the True, Good, and Beautiful" ( Brazos Press, 2025), award-winning author Karen Swallow Prior has encouraging news: If you pursue the good, true, and beautiful in all your work, you will find your greatest fulfillment.

In our podcast conversation, we discuss:
> The difference between passion and calling. How does this help us make vocational decisions?
> What are the various callings we have, not just in our 9-to-5, but in all of life?
> How does our context determine our callings, including when and where we live, who is in our lives, and what needs arise?
> How are our callings from outside ourselves, often in the service to others?
> How can we find meaning in every role, regardless of what our career is?
> How can we reintegrate our vocational lives through truth, goodness, and beauty?

Our discussion will help anyone and everyone who wants to know that our daily work, ordinary though it may be, can fulfill a higher calling to God. You will gain a renewed sense of purpose, knowing you are created for virtue in all that you do.

Vocations, Passions, and Living the Reintegrated Life

10/14/2025

We are experiencing increased suspicion and animosity in our churches, our workplaces, and even our families. It has also led to a false sense that our options are limited to choosing only one side. Is there a better way? Are Christians called to be peacemakers and bridgebuilders? And can they do that without jettisoning our core convictions?

Into the fray comes Dr. Mullen and her new book, Claiming the Courageous Middle: Daring to Live and Work Together for a More Hopeful Future (Baker Academic, 2024).

https://bobrobinsonre.substack.com/p/do-you-dare-to-be-in-the-courageous

The murder of Charlie Kirk has shaken both the political and faith communities. It is fortunate that we interviewed Shirley Mullen a couple of months ago. We are glad to provide that interview now. She encourages us to take up the courageous middle in the midst of the kind of polarization that has led to this kind of violence.

Reintegrate Podcast with David Allen Loughney and Bob Robinson .

https://bakeracademic.com/p/Claiming-the-Courageous-Middle-Shirley-A-Mullen/542817

Author of "Claiming the Courageous Middle: Daring to Live and Work Together for a More Hopeful Future."

08/11/2025

Do you feel that our isolating individualism, nonstop injustices, consumerist lifestyles, or everyday monotony are suffocating your soul?
Our guest, Wesley Vander Lugt, believes what breathes life into us is something that we can easily miss or dismiss: BEAUTY.
His new book is "Beauty Is Oxygen: Finding a Faith That Breathes" (Eerdmans, 2024). Here is not your ivory-tower theologian; his PhD is in Theology, Imagination, and the Arts. Wes shows how beauty can break us out of self-centered malaise, promote healing and hope for our broken world, and re-enchant our lives. Wes believes that Beauty is as essential to our souls as oxygen is to our bodies.
Check it out on your favorite podcast app! Links to them all and to the podcast can be found at https://bobrobinsonre.substack.com/p/re-enchant-your-faith-by-perceiving
with co-host David Allen Loughney

Author of "Beauty Is Oxygen: Finding a Faith That Breathes."

05/20/2025

For this episode, we have one of our favorite guests: Jordan Raynor. His energy and passion are contagious as he discusses reintegrating our work with our faith!

Watch of listen:
https://bobrobinsonre.substack.com/p/your-secular-work-is-sacred-video

His latest book is "The Sacredness of Secular Work: 4 Ways Your Job Matters for Eternity (Even When You're Not Sharing the Gospel)" (Waterbrook Press, 2024)

At Reintegrate, we often discuss overcoming the false dualism between the sacred and the secular. I love how Jordan Raynor plays with those words in the title. We might want to call it “secular work,” but God calls the work of normal everyday workers, not just overseas missionaries or pastors, sacred work.

A must listen!

05/08/2025

We know that quiet is an essential aspect of the spiritual life, that we need to leave the craziness of our hurried and frenzied lives and find the deep peace of being in God’s presence. But in our busy lives of deadlines and distractions, of screens at work and at play, this seems abstract and impossible.

Our guest on this episode of the Reintegrate Podcast s Sarah Clarkson. Her latest book is "Reclaiming Quiet: Cultivating a Life of Holy Attention" (Baker, 2024). Listen to the podcast to hear her story of trying to overcome anxiety and hurry by cultivating a life of holy attention, an inner quiet of paying attention to God in the everyday aspects of life.
With David Allen Loughney

Author of "Reclaiming Quiet: Cultivating a Life of Holy Attention."

03/15/2025

Studying history is not as simple as watching a documentary, a biopic, or reading a bestselling narrative history. We need to be aware of how historians actually do their craft, and use those same tools as we watch and read.

Some use history to advance their political agendas, while others just echo ideas that are not substantiated by historical scholarship. Armchair historians can often get it very wrong.

How should Christians study history? Christians are a people of the Truth, so how do we know what is legitimate history?

How do we reintegrate our faith with our understanding of the past?

Our guest on this episode of the Reintegrate Podcast is Dr. John Fea, Distinguished Professor of American History at Messiah University in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. He has recently released the second edition of his book, Why Study History?: Reflecting on the Importance of the Past (Baker Academic, 2024). In this book, he talks about what historians do, what bad history looks like, and how studying history can be a form of spiritual formation.

https://bobrobinsonre.substack.com/p/why-study-history-podcast-with-dr

10/28/2024

Do you want to become a WISE leader? Uli Chi is the person you need to hear. And we have him on the Reintegrate Podcast!

He has deep insights based on decades of leadership experience, and his book, The Wise Leader, is receiving widespread praise.

He is an award-winning technological entrepreneur as the founder of Chi-LLC, a software company that develops 3-D virtual reality space planning and visualization software.

He now chairs the Virginia Mason Franciscan Health System board and lends his expertise to the advisory boards for the Benaroya Research Institute and the Virginia Mason Institute. He teaches for Regent College’s Master of Arts in Leadership, Theology, and Society and Fuller Seminary’s Doctorate of Global Leadership. He also serves as a senior fellow and vice chair at the Max De Pree Center for Leadership at Fuller Seminary.

LISTEN to this man!
https://bobrobinsonre.substack.com/p/becoming-a-wise-leader-with-uli-chi

10/27/2024

We have a wealth of information at our fingertips, but information is not the same as wisdom. Whether in business, spiritual life, or everyday decisions, we need wisdom’s guidance to lead with purpose and meaning.

We would do well to learn over their shoulders and through their hearts from those with real-life experience and deep resources for wisdom. With decades of leadership experience in business, nonprofits, and Christian higher education, Uli Chi is just such a person.

Uli Chi is an award-winning technological entrepreneur who founded Chi-LLC, a software company that develops 3-D virtual reality space planning and visualization software. He teaches for Regent College’s Master of Arts in Leadership, Theology, and Society and Fuller Seminary’s Doctorate of Global Leadership. He also serves as a senior fellow and the vice chair at the Max De Pree Center for Leadership at Fuller Seminary.

In his new book, "The Wise Leader" (Eerdmans, 2024), Uli shares what he has discovered in Scripture, through personal experience, as well as from art and literature: That the nature of wisdom is fundamentally relational and other-centered and that wise leadership is a righteous blend of power and humility.

Follow this link to listen and to link to your favorite podcast app:
https://bobrobinsonre.substack.com/p/becoming-a-wise-leader-with-uli-chi

With David Allen Loughney