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May 2014

May 22, 2014

A song about vocation–or is it?

Thanks to Dan Kempin for alerting me to this song "Do Everything" by Contemporary Christian...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

Do Your Duty

I published an article in Tabletalk Magazine about the concept of "duty," tying it via...

April 17, 2014

The vocation of a movie critic

Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday "came out," as they say, as a Christian, writing...

April 09, 2014

George Herbert’s struggles with his vocation

We've blogged about Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, who wrote in the London Guardian that the poetry of...

February 2014

February 03, 2014

Lutheranism is not boring–vocation is

For me, growing up in perhaps the blandest version of mainline liberal Protestantism, Lutheranism, far...

December 2013

December 25, 2013

Christmas giving and Christmas receiving

Merry Christmas, everyone! Consider that receiving gifts is a sign of the Gospel. And giving...

December 11, 2013

Working on Sunday

Daniel A. Siedell relates the Sabbath, the Gospel, and Vocation: Amazon has just announced that...

November 2013

November 07, 2013

A children’s book on vocation

My daughter, Deaconness Mary Moerbe, has just published a children's book on vocation! Luther was...

November 01, 2013

Becoming the LeBron James of welding

Tip of the hat to my former student Nathan Martin, who is involved with this...

October 2013

October 28, 2013

Holy Communion, Culture, & Vocation

We often talk about how God works through material elements in the sacraments to convey...

October 28, 2013

What the crises in health care and higher education have in common

Patrick J. Deneen writes about the similarities between the current crises in health care and...

October 11, 2013

Duty and Vocation

Reflecting on the beards of the Red Sox made me think about the Victorians and...

September 2013

September 02, 2013

The Protestant work ethic

Our post in honor of Vocation Day, which used to be called Labor Day. ....

July 2013

July 24, 2013

Books on Faith and Work

The doctrine of vocation, though neglected for a long time, is coming back in force. ...

July 02, 2013

The Lutheran Theology of Culture

On the LCMS website, looking for an address, I saw prominently featured an article or...

June 2013

June 14, 2013

A great conversation about vocation

A Lutheran, a Calvinist, and a Baptist walk into a bar. . . and start...

May 2013

May 07, 2013

Journalism & vocation

Mollie Hemingway, who shamed the mainstream press into covering the Kermit Gosnell abortion mill murder...

May 03, 2013

“Radical,” “missional” Christianity as the new legalism

The esteemed Anthony Bradley describes a "new legalism" stemming from the vogue of so-called "radical"...

April 2013

April 25, 2013

Lutherans, Calvinists, & Evangelicals on vocation

Tim Keller, the well-respected pastor of Redeemer Prebyterian Church in New York, City, has written...

April 17, 2013

Easter and Vocation

In the sermon for the third Sunday of Easter, based on John 21:1-19, in which...

April 11, 2013

Sanctification and Vocation

The estimable Anthony Sacramone has been carrying on a fascinating and helpful discussion (in two...

April 05, 2013

Finding Your Vocation in College

Anthony Sacramone asked me to write something on "How to Find Your Vocation in College"...

April 03, 2013

The vocation of garbage collectors

I have always admired garbage collectors. Their work is hard and dirty, but essential, and...

March 2013

March 22, 2013

Morality and economics

Economist Steven Pearlstein has published an article in the Washington Post entitled "Is capitalism moral?" ...

March 19, 2013

Satan’s ordinary attacks

We often think of the Christian life in terms of spectacular events and experiences, but...

March 14, 2013

Lent and Vocation

Daniel Siedell, in the course of discussing the Russian film The Passion of Andrei Rublev...

March 08, 2013

Leaving a vocation

In yesterday's post about some cardinals complaining about Pope Benedict XVI leaving his calling, I...

February 2013

February 08, 2013

Your boring job

The blogger who goes by the name of Josephus Flavius quotes the 20th century Orthodox...

January 2013

January 23, 2013

“Public displays” of faith

Mollie Hemingway writes about the way the media addresses the late Stan Musial's religion. Most...

October 2012

October 22, 2012

Vocation as sacramental

A paragraph from a piece by Peter Berger, via Anthony Sacramone: The Lutheran understanding of...