Mere Christians

Why Jordan has decided to put the show on hiatus after 300 episodes and millions of downloads, how he thinks about what he needs to prune in order to pursue the ministry of excellence in other things, and the 10 moments of this show he’s thought about most post-recording.
Links Mentioned
Jordan Raynor on LinkedIn
Jordan Raynor on X
Jordan Raynor on Instagram
Jordan Raynor on YouTube
Jordan Raynor on Facebook
'Five Mere Christians'
Born Standing Up
Kayla Taylor on LinkedIn
Christopher Perry on LinkedIn
We Edit Podcasts
The Sacredness of Secular Work
Redeeming Your Time
The Word Before Work (Book)
The Word Before Work (Podcast)
The Word Before Work (Email List & Blog)
Episode 289: Tim Croll (LEGO Masters contestant + Director of Serious Play at Narrative.live)
Episode 247: Noah Sanders (Farmer)
Episode 140: Aarti Sequeira (Food Network Host)
Episode 130: Makoto Fujimura (Artist)
Episode 5: Horst Schulze (Co-founder of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company)
Episode 213: Anne Beiler (Founder of Auntie Anne's)
Episode 197: Sam Acho (Sports Analyst at ESPN)
Episode 258: Stephen Bargatze (Magician)
Episode 255: Jenna Barrett (Manager of Brand Advertising and Marketing at Choice Hotels)
Episode 34: Tim Keller (Founder of Redeemer Presbyterian Church)
Episode 232: Skye Jethani (Author of What If Jesus Was Serious About Heaven? + Co-host of The Holy Post)
Episode 173: Deb Liu (CEO of Ancestry.com)
Episode 206: Dave Evans (Co-founder of EA Sports + Author of Designing Your Life)
All Things New
The Will of God as a Way of Life
With
Episode 84: Candace Cameron Bure (Actress)
Episode 114: John Mark Comer (Author of Live No Lies)
Episode 269: Dr. Francis Collins (Author of The Road to Wisdom)
Episode 25: Carly Fiorina (Fmr. CEO of HP and Presidential Candidate)
Episode 151: Joni Eareckson Tada (Painter)
Episode 204: Christy Adams (Middle School Teacher)
Episode 219: Bethany Brown (Nurse Practitioner + Owner of The Aesthetics Lounge and Spa)
Episode 268: Kathy Keller (Co-author of The Meaning of Marriage)
On Birth
On Marriage
On Death
The Jesus Storybook Bible
The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness
No Rules Rules
The Road Less Stupid
Shoe Dog
When Breath Becomes Air
Episode 286: Anna Kemp (Grad Student)
Every Good Endeavor
The Redeeming Your Time Mastermind
Bonton Farms
Kayleigh Cox on LinkedIn
Jordan Raynor & Company
Mere Christians Podcast

How the advice to “follow your passions” can lead to an unbiblical sense of entitlement, how to follow “the true, good, and beautiful” today to find your calling tomorrow, and how God uses pain and trauma to steer us to our callings.
Links Mentioned:
Dr. Karen Swallow Prior
Dr. Karen Swallow Prior on X
Dr. Karen Swallow Prior on Instagram
Dr. Karen Swallow Prior on Facebook
You Have a Calling
Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More
The Priory Newsletter
Hannah More | Britannica
Moana
Moana 2
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
Master of One
Dr. Amy Wrzesniewski on LinkedIn
‘Jobs, Careers, and Callings: People's Relations to Their Work’
‘The Secret of Effective Motivation’
Why Work?
Five Mere Christians
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Makoto Fujimura
Episode 130: Makoto Fujimura (Artist)
Episode 147: Haejin Shim Fujimura (Attorney)
Kaleigh Cox on LinkedIn
Aaron Sorkin
Redeeming Your Time
Called to Create
Jordan Raynor

How Wilson came to be the shoe industry’s first Black shoe designer, how work can be a form of prayer, and why he chose Philippians 2 to be printed in his Nike shoes.
Links Mentioned:
Wilson Smith on LinkedIn
Wilson Smith on Instagram
University of Oregon | College of Design
Wilson Smith | IDSA
Nike
Five Mere Christians
Air
Tinker Hatfield
Shoe Dog
Reebok
Chariots of Fire
Bono
Bill Bowerman
Phil Knight
Designing for Diversity: Wilson Smith at TEDxUOregon
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
Questlove
The Wonder of Stevie
12 Notes: On Life and Creativity
Tobie Hatfield on LinkedIn
Episode 205: Bobo Beck (Realtor + Author of Wisdom Calling)
Jordan Raynor

How to find joy in your work—even when it sucks, how Will’s “trailhead practice” can lead you to “Spirit-led self-awareness,” and how to stop limping towards God’s throne and start running towards it.
Links Mentioned:
Will Acuff on LinkedIn
No Elevator to Everest
Corner to Corner 
BAM Global Events
Thomas Merton
The Return of the Prodigal Son Anniversary Edition
Joe Mazzulla | NBCA
Annie Dillard
Jordan Raynor

How to lead winsomely when your vocation is under attack, how the cross can “disabuse you of any sense of power” at work, and how Dr. Sethupathy practically elevates the marginalized in his office.
Links Mentioned:
Dr. Praveen Sethupathy
Dr. Praveen Sethupathy on LinkedIn
Episode 200: Dr. Francis Collins (Fmr. Director of the National Institutes of Health)
Episode 272: Dr. Francis Collins (Author of The Road to Wisdom)
Timothy Keller
The Human Genome Project
‘Science as a Christian Vocation’
Johannes Kepler
Madeleine L'Engle
Fred Rogers
National Academy of Sciences
The Myth of Certainty
What's So Amazing About Grace?
The Genius of Their Age
Dr. Ard Louis
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe
Episode 48: Dr. Katharine Hayhoe (Climate Scientist)
BioLogos
Veritas
Jordan Raynor