The episode you're about to listen to was released back when the mere Christians podcast was called the call to mastery

Now if you love mere Christians, you're still going to love these older episodes because the majority of each

conversation focuses on how the gospel influences the work of our guests. With that disclaimer out of the way, please enjoy the episode. Hey everybody welcome to the call to mastery. I'm Jordan Rayner. This is a

podcast for Christians who want to do exceptional work, world-class work for the

glory of God and the good of others.

Every week I'm bringing you a conversation with somebody who is following Christ but also pursuing world-class

mastery of their crafts. We're talking about their path to

mastery, we're talking about their daily habits, and how their faith influences

their work. Today's guest needs no introduction for most of you. I'm talking with Ruth Chow Simons today.

She's the founder of Grace Laced. She's best known as the best-selling author of the book with the same title, as well as a book called Beholding

and Becoming.

Now listen, I personally judge books by Goodreads ratings.

I find that they are extraordinarily rare to find a book with a 4.5

average rating or above. Ruth's books crush it on that platform consistently

being rated over 4.75 with hundreds of

ratings she's an exceptional writer but she's also an unbelievably talented

artist and is coming into her own as an entrepreneur building a really significant company

around her beautiful gospel-centric products. Ruth and I recently sat down, we talked about

what is good, righteous, gospel-centric ambition look like in our work.

We talked about how the simple creative connection between theological depth and artistic beauty allowed Ruth to bring to market some really unique

products and we talked about how to think about our work as a generous gift to the

world. You're going to find tremendous rest, tremendous joy in this conversation.

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