Podcast Meets Purpose

The books, movies and podcasts we're engaging with that inspire a more purposeful way of thinking about vocation, calling and work. Ali and Thais share their favorites.

This episode features interviews with Steve Lehmann, a 2009 Valpo Mechanical Engineering graduate who is now the Assistant Director of the University of Chicago Innovation Fund, and Rev. Pam Fickenscher, a 1990 Valpo graduate who is now Senior Pastor at St. John Lutheran Church in Northfield, MN and founding pastor of Spirit Garage, one of the first emergent church start-ups designed to reach younger generations. Whether it's a sudden change in plan or a shifting sense of call, these conversations explore how we approach our plans for engaging meaningful work - and how we handle it when things don't go as expected.

This episode features interviews with Bishop Emeritus Munib Younan, who served as the acting Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Jordan and the Holy Land from December 1998 to January 2018, and Dr. Mitri Raheb, Founder and President of Dar al-Kalima University College of Arts and Culture in Bethlehem. These conversations explore questions of ministry, peacemaking, reconciliation, and hope. Facebook | facebook.com/leadserve Instagram | ilasatvalpo YouTube | youtube.com/channel/UCkGzIe-LP7nbHI2DyYkK85A Intro and Outro theme by Hooksounds Music.

This episode features excerpts from interviews with Evva Kraikul, Executive Director of GLITCH; and Nate Marshall, poet, MC, author and Director of National Programs for the Louder Than A Bomb Youth Poetry Festival. We explore questions of how to self-identify as someone ready to lead and how to help young people to see that potential in themselves.

An interview with 2018 Valparaiso University Alumni Award Winner Jason Hallman '06, a mechanical engineering major who now serves as a Team Leader for Safety Research at Toyota.