Hey everybody welcome to the mere Christians podcast I'm Jordan Rayner. How does the

Gospel influence the work of mere Christians?

Those of us who aren't pastors or religious professionals, but who work as writers and speech therapists and dieticians? That's the question we explore every

week and today I'm posing it to my friend Mimi Chan. She's the head of seasonal events at Amazon Book, so if you're a reader and

Amazon devotee like I am, you're gonna love this episode. Mimi and I sat down to talk about how to speak up for the

powerless in your office. We talked about how to take a stand for God's way in a

God honoring way at work, especially when you disagree with your employer's

policies and we talked about why we need Christians rushing into secular quote unquote workplaces in order to

claim them as sacred. I loved this

is episode. is dark and growing increasingly darker, this may be the most encouraging episode of the

podcast for you we've ever produced.

Please enjoy this conversation with Mimi Chan.

Mimi Chan, so good to have you on the podcast.

Thanks for being here.

It is a delight, Jordan.

So we were just talking before we start recording.

You just got back from Israel.

How was that?

It was incredible. Is this your first time?

It was my first time to Israel and everybody tells you that it's life changing because you go and you get a walk in the same places, right?

That Jesus walked or you're in Capernum and you're reading him talk about the

bed of life while you're in a synagogue where he actually spoke it. You know, you're on the mat of olives looking down at the

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