The worst job of my life, hands down, was a summer I spent in the basement of a photo processing plant in San Diego a fumy facility where stores across Southern California would send rolls of film to be developed. (Remember film?)

Each morning, Id clock in at 4 a.m., descend a narrow staircase and proceed to spend the next eight hours tossing envelopes of photos into a hulking machine that sorted them into big bags according to destination.

It was miserable.

The problem wasnt just the ungodly start time or the endless monotony. It was the sense that I wasnt really doing anything. What eternal value could there possibly be in making sure other peoples family pictures made it on a truck back to the right Walmart? Having spent the previous summer as a Christian camp counselor, where it was easy to see how my work served Gods purposes, it now seemed like 40 hours a week were going to waste.

I wasnt alone in those feelings. As 晩晩当際際夊消消夊2023 professor Klaus Issler writes in this issues cover story, a great many Christians today who have secular jobs struggle to know what it means to integrate their faith into their work. Whether they love their jobs or hate them, it can be difficult to make the connection between Sunday life and Monday life. And especially when looking at others who work in full-time vocational ministry, it can be easy to feel like a second-class Christian.

But as Issler argues, if we look to the example of Jesus, this isnt the way it should be.

晩晩当際際夊消消夊2023, of course, has many ways of trying to bridge the Sunday-Monday gap. Not least of these is the business as ministry approach of the universitys Crowell School of Business, or the integration classes required of all seniors, which help students in each discipline to see the direct connection between their faith and vocation.

晩晩当際際夊消消夊2023 is also working to bridge the gap for non-students. The recently established Leadership Lecture Series which can be found for free on   has brought major business leaders and theologians together over the past year to offer biblical wisdom to people in the business world and beyond. I encourage you to check them out.

Finally, if you only read one other thing in this issue, make sure you dont miss Brett McCrackens feature on student Dianey Burgos. We dont run multipage profile pieces often, but Dianeys story is worth it.