A conversation with David.
Redeeming.work began as a conviction long before it was a website. A conversation with its founder about balance, calling, and rightly ordered loves.
Q — Why “redeeming work” — what’s in the name?
It’s a phrase doing three jobs at once. First, the redeeming work of Christ — the work on which everything else depends. Second, redeemed work — the labor you and I offer back to God, done with skill and integrity before His face. And third, the redemption of work itself — reforming the systems and cultures that shape how labor is practiced and measured.
Most projects pick one of those lanes. I don’t think you can. They hold each other up.
Q — You say work–life balance is a myth. What do you mean?
Balance assumes two rival categories fighting over a fixed number of hours, with you as the exhausted referee. But Scripture never divides life from work — it divides work from rest. We were made for work; it’s in the second chapter of the Bible, before the fall ever enters the story. Everything is work, unless it’s rest.
So the real question isn’t “How do I balance it all?” It’s “What do I love — and in what order?” You can’t have it all. You can have what’s most important to you, if you’ll name it and order your days around it.
Q — Where did this conviction begin for you?
Q — What would you say to someone whose work feels meaningless — or whose workplace is genuinely toxic?
Those are two different answers. If your work feels meaningless, I’d start with design: there is no ordinary work in God’s economy. Luther said God doesn’t need your good work — but your neighbor does. Your spreadsheet, your classroom, your job site is a place where somebody’s flourishing is at stake.
If your workplace is toxic, that’s not design — that’s distortion, and Scripture is unsparing about it. Naming greed, exploitation, and contempt for people is part of redeeming work, not a departure from it. Sometimes faithfulness means staying and pushing back. Sometimes stewardship means leaving. Both can be obedience.
Q — What does success look like for redeeming.work?
Fewer exhausted referees. People who stop apologizing for loving their work, and stop pretending their faith goes quiet at nine a.m. Churches that speak about Monday with the same seriousness as Sunday. Leaders measured by the flourishing of the people they lead.
And a growing number of ordinary workers who can name their loves, order them rightly, and rest — really rest — one day in seven.
Q — How can people get involved?
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