Practical Lessons for Integrating Faith and Work, by Randy Hain

By Randy Hain, Integrated Catholic, May 27, 2021

Mr. Randy Hain is President of Serviam Partners (www.serviampartners.com) and is a sought-after executive coach and leadership consultant for business leaders and companies all over the country. …

How do we integrate our faith with our work? If you think about it, most of us will likely spend the majority of our adult (awake) lives in the workplace. A typical eight hour work day accounts for a third of the total day, with the other two-thirds devoted to sleeping, family, friends, faith, and so on. In the practice of our faith, do we consider the workplace as an opportunity to be open about our Catholic beliefs or do we ignore this vital time and only think about being Catholic the other sixteen hours a day?

I suspect many of us will agree that the workplace today is perceived as a challenging environment to be open about our Christian beliefs. Political correctness, “wokeness” and rigid company policies have led many of us to compartmentalize our faith in an unhealthy and unnatural way. I often hear people say, “I just leave my faith at the door when I get to work.” But how can we possibly separate our spiritual from our physical being? …