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June 2011

June 23, 2011

A conversation with one of my critics #3

In which we conclude the "battle of the books" between my God at Work: Your...

June 22, 2011

A conversation with one of my critics #2

More of my debate with Ken Witherington, author of Work: A Kingdom Perspective on Labor, which...

June 21, 2011

A conversation with one of my critics #1

Someone asks me a few weeks ago if anyone ever disagreed with what I have...

June 20, 2011

End of the professional/personal divide

An article on how the Navy has been sacking commanding officers for personal misconduct ends...

June 16, 2011

Counterfeit SEALS

Two interesting phenomena: Men who falsely claim to be ex-SEALS and men who go to...

June 10, 2011

The legacy of Dr. Death

Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a.k.a. "Dr. Death," died the other day, of natural causes and not...

May 2011

May 27, 2011

Updating myself at Redeemed Reader

J. B. Cheaney writes for World and for children. With fellow children's lit author Emily Whitten, she...

May 25, 2011

Mollie Hemingway on her faith

The Washington Examiner has a series in which they interview people about their faith. (They...

May 24, 2011

Entitlement behavior

Ruth Marcus has a column on entitlement behavior: By entitlement behavior, I mean the apparent...

May 19, 2011

Starbucks and vocation

Blogger Matt Perman wrote a good post entitled "Starbucks, Vocation, and The Meaning of the...

May 05, 2011

The vocation of the warrior

Paul McCain quotes Martin Luther's treatise Can Soldiers Too Be Saved?: …In the same way,...

May 04, 2011

How should Christians react to bin Laden’s death?

Rev. Jacob Ehrhard offers nine points for reflection on how Christians should react to the...

April 2011

April 28, 2011

You’ve got to read this book

For Lent I took up once again John Kleinig's Grace Upon Grace: Spirituality for Today....

April 19, 2011

Tiger Mothers vs. Vocation

One of the best things I've read on the Tiger Mother controversy is this column...

April 04, 2011

Nuclear heroes

The Fukushima 50 are the fifty workers who are trying desperately to prevent a nuclear...

March 2011

March 02, 2011

Preaching “the King’s speech”

I was glad that The King's Speech took all of the top prizes at the...

March 02, 2011

Let us now praise the internet

A new study has found that young people who are active on the internet are...

February 2011

February 14, 2011

Romantic love and marriage

For St. Valentine's Day. . . . Did you realize that romantic love, as it...

January 2011

January 25, 2011

What an organist learned

Lynette Tedlund, a.k.a. the commenter on this blog known as "Booklover," wrote a piece for...

January 13, 2011

Frodo & Vocation

The Lord of the Rings is another tale about vocation, as John Ortberg realizes: My...

January 12, 2011

Vocation gone wild

This is from a couple of years ago, but Carl Vehse just found it and...

December 2010

December 28, 2010

Vocation vs. Churchianity

I love to see what happens when people discover Luther's doctrine of vocation. Here Chaplain...

December 15, 2010

Raising children so they will go to church as adults

This has been out for awhile, but I just came across it in the course...

November 2010

November 29, 2010

Saying grace

The Religious News Service reports on a study about how many Americans have a prayer...

November 18, 2010

News we can choose

Old school journalist Ted Koppel lambastes both MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and Fox News's Bill O'Reilly,...

November 11, 2010

The Vocation of Military Service

In honor of Veterans' Day and to salute those who served in the military, I...

October 2010

October 27, 2010

Bringing the Reformation to Protestantism

The original Reformation, whose anniversary we mark on October 31, began in 1517 as an...

October 21, 2010

Vindicating middle management

As we saw in the mortgage foreclosure fiasco, paperwork is necessary. And, according to some...

October 18, 2010

Happy belated Cranach day!

Saturday, October 16, was the day the patron of this blog, Lucas Cranach, the artist...

October 08, 2010

Maslow’s hierarchy has a new pinnacle of human achievement

Maslow's hierarchy of needs has been a landmark of psychology, used in education and even...