Advocate and Witness: What It Means to Be a Christian When Your Job Doesn’t Make It Easy (Conscience at Work)

You do not get to step away from responsibility.The work keeps coming. The decisions do not wait. And often, the hardest part is not knowing what the law allows. It is knowing what you should do when the law allows more than your conscience can carry.Advocate and Witness is about that space.Not theory. Not faith kept safely apart from work. But the lived reality of making decisions when someone else is relying on you, when the right answer costs something, and when no one is watching except you.Written by a practicing attorney with more than thirty-six years of experience, this book reflects on the moments inside the work that rarely appear in the file:– the client who does not pay– the mistake you could have used– the pressure to stretch the bill– the case you could take but should not– the silence that is not technically wrong, but is not right– the victory that still leaves a woundEach chapter stands in the tension between what is permitted and what remains afterward.This is not a book about easy answers.It is not a book about appearing righteous.It is a book about responsibility, conscience, faith, and the quiet decisions that shape a life.For lawyers, professionals, and anyone who carries real responsibility in their work, Advocate and Witness asks a simple question:When the file closes, can you live with what you became while handling it? Read more