ICYMI

• Professor Dan Block taught us about covenants, promises, and the work of Jesus this past Tuesday. It was awesome.

Recommendations

• Lakelight speaker Collin Hansen hosted James Davison Hunter on his podcast where they discussed Hunter’s new book Democracy and Solidarity. We recommend listening to the interview, subscribing to Hansen’s podcast and reading Hunter’s book. 3 in 1.

Articles

• How to lead the 6 generation workforce, written by Good Work Summit speaker Nicholas Pearce

• On the integration of Faith and Finance

• Attention Consultants: Your Industry Is Being Disrupted and There Is Nothing You Can Do About It.

• TGC reviewed Season 2 of Rings of Power, the Amazon Prime series based in Middle Earth.

  • If you’re itching for more LOTR content, check out Mike Woodruff’s review of Season 1.

• The Princeton organizational psychologist and best-selling author Adam Grant compiled a list of 12 books to “fire up your brain this fall.”

• 3 apps to increase your productivity.

• Advice on starting and maintaining a mentoring relationship in the workplace.

Paywalled

• Ross Douthat outlines how Trump could blow it in November, while David Brooks lays out Kamala’s blueprint for implosion. (NYT)

• A 12 question quiz to ascertain the health of your brain habits. (NYT)

• Hits like The Chosen and The Jesus Revolution have convinced Hollywood to invest in Christian film & media. (WSJ)

• Younger workers and older managers don’t always see eye to eye, apparently. (Consider us shocked!) (WSJ)

  • Over a year ago, Ben Dockery outlined how leaders can leverage generational differences to boost team performance.

• The Wall Street Journal released a list of the “Best Colleges of 2025,” and Wheaton College is not on the list, so there’s at least one obvious oversight.

• “The typical American, it seems, texts a bunch of people “we should get together!” before watching TikTok alone on the couch and then passing out. That is, Americans have friends. We just never really see them.” Olga Khazan offering a fresh perspective to the oft-cited loneliness epidemic. (The Atlantic)

A Hopeful Picture

Data

• The Surgeon General has issued an advisory on the mental health and well-being of parents. (All data from this report)

  • The state of parents’ mental health: 41% of parents say that most days they are so stressed they cannot function and 48% say that most days their stress is completely overwhelming compared to other adults (20% and 26%, respectively).

  • Financial stress: In the last decade, child care prices have grown by approximately 26% in the U.S.

  • Changes in parenting expectations: time spent weekly on primary child care has increased by 40% among mothers from 8.4 hours in 1985 to 11.8 hours in 2022, and by 154% among fathers from 2.6 hours in 1985 to 6.6 hours in 2022.

  • Technology: Nearly 70% of parents say parenting is now more difficult than it was 20 years ago, because of new technology and social media.

  • The mental health epidemic happening among young people: Nearly 3-in-4 parents are extremely or somewhat worried that their child will struggle with anxiety or depression.

  • So be kind to parents. And let’s take care of one another.

One Last Thing

• Mike Woodruff released Chapter 1 of his upcoming book On The News. You can pre-order the book for free.