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October 2014

October 15, 2014

Saint Fred

Who doesn't love, and miss, Mr. Rogers? At The Curator, Vesper Stamper writes about the beloved...

October 06, 2014

Vocational Liturgies

Over at The High Calling, James K.A. Smith explores what it might mean to develop rituals...

September 2014

September 29, 2014

Learning to Love Your Job

Over at The High Calling today, Bob Smietana writes about learning to love your job, in...

August 2014

August 12, 2014

Philosophy, PB & J’s, and Bogotá

Over at Fieldnotes, Jamaica Abare reflects on what changed when her vocation grew to include...

July 2014

July 21, 2014

Marriage — for the Common Good?

In Comment, James K.A. Smith looks at marriage from a different perspective: This romantic picture is...

June 2014

June 19, 2014

Don’t Do What You Love

Wait, what? Don't do what you love? No, argues Charlotte Lieberman in Harvard Business Review -- just...

June 05, 2014

Can Corporate Profits Help Communities Thrive?

As a professor at a Christian college, I often encounter students who are wondering if...

May 2014

May 27, 2014

Ascension and Vocation

Over at the Washington Institute, Laura Merzig Fabrycky writes about Christ's ascension, and what it...

May 08, 2014

Living in Obscurity

My dear friend Katie is wise, and wrote a great little blog post about choosing...

May 07, 2014

Constraint and Consent

My friend Kate Harris wrote a wonderful article about "Constraint and Consent, Career and Motherhood"...

April 2014

April 07, 2014

A Seamless Calling

Over at the InterVarsity website "The Well," my Christianity Today colleague Katelyn Beaty wrote a...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

Sports for the Glory of God

March Madness is upon us, and with it, all things basketball are important once again....

February 2014

February 10, 2014

Writing (And Other) Routines

I thought this blog post by Ben Sherman was really interesting. In it, he talks...

February 07, 2014

Practical Ideas for Church Leaders Encouraging Vocational Faithfulness

There's a lot of talk about vocation these days. The church is waking up to...

February 04, 2014

Some Thoughts on Philip Seymour Hoffman

The actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died this weekend of an apparent drug overdose - a...

October 2013

October 16, 2013

Why We Shouldn’t Try To Be Awesome

At the new magazine In Earnest, which launched yesterday, Emily Schatz wrote about why young...

September 2013

September 12, 2013

Identity and Belonging – At Work?

Over at Fieldnotes, Gideon Strauss is recounting some of his own remarkable vocational history - starting...

September 10, 2013

A Fisherman’s Personality Profile

Over at The High Calling, Jen Hanno Sandbulte reminds us that the disciples weren't in...

July 2013

July 26, 2013

Business Imitates God

This via The High Calling: the theologian Wayne Grudem helps us understand some of the...

May 2013

May 24, 2013

You Can’t Think Your Way To God

Christianity Today has published an interview with my friend James K.A. Smith, the philosopher, editor of...

May 14, 2013

Redemption in Angola Prison

Over at Comment Magazine, John Rottman has an interesting piece on the astounding transformation at...

May 13, 2013

Boomers, Millennials, and Wisdom

There's a great piece on mentorship in The High Calling this week--an interview with Christine...

May 08, 2013

Letting Gravity Do Its Work

Mike Metzger has a terrific reflection over at The High Calling on God's plan for...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

Primary Callings

Over at The High Calling last week, Bob Robinson offered some simple, foundational thoughts on...

April 10, 2013

The Long View

Hello, everyone! I'm delighted to be contributing here, and grateful to Mark for asking me...

September 2011

September 05, 2011

Motherhood as Vocation – Excellent Discussion for Labor Day by Kate Harris

If you are a mother, if you know any mothers, if you have a mother,...