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October 2012

October 11, 2012

Is the purpose of work leisure?

The New York Times published an online column arguing that the purpose of work is...

September 2012

September 24, 2012

The boundary between work and home

A growing number of companies are telling employees to stop using electronics to work even...

September 03, 2012

Vocation Day reading

Happy Vocation Day! It was formerly known as Labor Day, but this blog has crusaded...

August 2012

August 20, 2012

A security guard fulfills his vocation

Joe Carter, who used to work for the Family Research Center, looks at the security...

July 2012

July 06, 2012

Lucas Cranach, cover story

The cover of Books & Culture, the Christian culture journal, features Lucas Cranach, and the...

June 2012

June 12, 2012

Luther the detective: Getting your hands dirty

Luther is the acclaimed British crime drama now available to Americans on BBC America. Here...

June 11, 2012

Luther the detective: Vocation

There is a TV show on BBC called Luther about a British police investigator, a...

April 2012

April 04, 2012

That eye-on-the-object look

W. H. Auden--another major poet who converted to Christianity--has written perceptively about vocation. This is...

April 03, 2012

Luther and the Euro crisis

From Lutheranism to its depths to Lutheranism in its shallows. . . The BBC, of...

March 2012

March 26, 2012

Are some vocations off-limits for Christians?

We discussed David Brooks's column wondering if Christians should ever be professional athletes as did...

March 19, 2012

Can sports be a vocation?

David Brooks argues that the nature of competitive sports is in conflict with Christianity and,...

March 15, 2012

C. S. Lewis on Vocation

Have you read C. S. Lewis's "Learning in Wartime"? It's an address to students at...

February 2012

February 21, 2012

Do-it-yourself repair shop

In Vancouver, British Columbia, there is a motorcycle repair shop that lets you use their...

January 2012

January 19, 2012

The two kinds of warriors: Hector & Achilles

University of Virginia English professor Mark Edmundson has written a fascinating essay entitled "Do Sports...

December 2011

December 22, 2011

Vocation & economic productivity

Greg Forster, in the context of a discussion about Europe's economic woes, makes some fascinating...

November 2011

November 10, 2011

Happy (belated) Gustavus Adolphus Day!

November 6 was the commemoration day for one of my heroes, the Swedish king Gustavus...

October 2011

October 04, 2011

You’ve been saved. Now what?

Michael Baruzzini at First Things has a thoughtful discussion of novelist Walker Percy, bourbon, and...

September 2011

September 05, 2011

Vocation Day

This blog has, for a number of years, been engaged in a crusade to co-opt...

September 05, 2011

Pleasure in toil as God’s gift to man

Your theme for Labor Day, I mean, Vocation Day: What gain has the worker from...

August 2011

August 19, 2011

Make a good shoe

A while ago I blogged about Tullian Tchividjian--Billy Graham's grandson and the successor to William...

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...

May 2011

May 25, 2011

Mollie Hemingway on her faith

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

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,...

April 2011

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

Let us now praise the internet

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

January 2011

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...