What Is Homesteading? A Conversation with Rory Groves

The Walk

February 10, 2022

One thing this current pandemic has done for us is to cause us to examine carefully just how fulfilling our life’s work is. Today, a high number of people have reevaluated their lives and concluded that it just isn’t good enough.

Maybe you’re searching for something real right now—a totally different kind of life that matches all those dreams you used to have.

That’s the way it was for today’s guest, Rory Groves. He examined hundreds of occupations that have survived at least 230 years since America’s founding, scoring them according to their stability, family-centeredness, income, and other factors. He then ranked these professions from most durable to least.

All this is in his unique book, Durable Trades. Rory is with us today to talk about his book and his own journey from the high tech industry to homesteading.

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John I. Snyder

John I. Snyder: Born and raised in California, John is an international pastor, conference speaker, and bestselling author of Who Does Not Fight Has Already Lost: Why and How to Be a Christian Now, A Series of Fortunate Events: A Christmas Devotional, and Sheltered With God: Finding God’s Peace in a World of Fear from Theology Mix, Resenting God: Escape the Downward Spiral of Blame from Abingdon Press and Your 100 Day Prayer: The Transforming Power of Actively Waiting on God from Thomas Nelson Publishers. John received his Master of Theology and Master of Divinity degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey, and he received his Doctor of Theology degree magna cum laude in New Testament Studies from the University of Basel, Switzerland. He has pastored and planted churches in California, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and Switzerland, training pastors and leaders in evangelism, prayer, outreach, and building healthy churches. John has been featured on Focus on the Family, Moody Radio, Fox News, Faith Radio Network, Cru, American Family Radio Network, In the Market with Janet Parshall, The Bottom Line with Roger Marsh, Miracle Channel, Bill Martinez Live, and many more. John is host of the podcast The Walk. The Walk is about our faith walk and how we live out our faith in our daily lives. It brings together conversations of faith from all aspects with writers, pastors, friends, musicians, entrepreneurs, and others. Inspiring guests include George Barna, Rev. Anthony Thompson, Dr. John Lennox, Rev. Percy McCray, Deb Wolfe, Ty Manns, and many more.

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