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January 2018

January 12, 2018

Can Anything Good Come Out of Nazareth?

Can anything good come out of backwaters? Only the salvation of the world.

January 09, 2018

Hospitality and Vocation (It’s Tricky)

How could I know what it means to be endlessly choosing out of a world...

December 2017

December 29, 2017

Life: It’s An Embodied Kind of Thing

Bodies matter. They matter at work and they matter at play.

December 23, 2017

It’s Really Hard to Say Anything About Work At This Time of the Year that Isaac Watts Didn’t Already

For all my gentle prodding of the faith and work movement, there's one thing it...

December 18, 2017

Thoughts About Being Sick

Something else to think about while you're in bed: is it you, or is it...

December 01, 2017

Second Birth

That advent is a longer one, and hard: Its carols have thorns in them, and...

November 2017

November 23, 2017

#nowthankweallourgod #thanksgiving

The goodness of the created order. Positive images of mothers. Harmony by Bach. We sang...

November 17, 2017

Yes, You Can Write Poems About Archival Files

Within the files where no one ever goes, mortality reigns.

November 10, 2017

What is Our Real Work?

What are we learning from the time when we become the impeded stream?

November 03, 2017

This is Country Music, and Explains a Lot of Other Things, Too

I grew up listening to country music. But as an adult, at least for a...

October 2017

October 27, 2017

Poetic Legacy: A poem about poets

My head is full of poems tonight: They echo in a speaking voice and tell...

October 23, 2017

Seeking Full Salvation: A Poem for Another Vocation

I would have gone the simple way if I had known my choice.

October 09, 2017

I Will Drink My Tears With My Hot Cocoa: A Response to Sarah Condon and Edwin Woodruff Tait

These things can't both be true, can they?

October 06, 2017

Craftsmanship? Or Calling?

What AM I trying to do to these people?

October 04, 2017

The Journey: Discerning a Vocation

Sometimes you cross a hilltop looking back and never understand how far you’ve come.

September 2017

September 26, 2017

The Use of Money

How we Earn, Save, and Give our money is all meant to give life to...

September 15, 2017

The Church, As it Is the Body of Christ

Small as a mustard seed and just as fair, The seeds of faith are planted...

September 13, 2017

The Frosting on the Cake, Or Why We Need Artists

By Christ John Otto, from a forthcoming book. A worldview is a way of processing...

September 10, 2017

The Sunday-Monday Connection: A Labor Day Sermon

By J. Fletcher Lowe; preached on Labor Day 2017 I have a friend named Bill...

September 07, 2017

Reflections of a Rookie Retiree

Here are my reflections from my first year of retirement and my conversations with many...

August 2017

August 25, 2017

The vocation of a librarian

Occasionally I share poetry here (either mine or from the public domain, dear copyright people.)...

August 11, 2017

Some Confessions the Gen Xer Should Make to the Millennial

Whatever else I thought I might post about today, it got elbowed out (I was...

August 05, 2017

A mother and a pastor

Today, the article you should read is over at Christianity Today, called "The Pay Gap is...

July 2017

July 28, 2017

Sexism in workplace language, or two gals in a garage and John McCain

I am, naturally, grateful that I still have health insurance this morning. I got a...

July 26, 2017

Health Insurance and Entreprenuership

I don't have much time today (because I'm busy being entrepreneurial) for anything other than...

July 14, 2017

Why Napping at Work Might Be a Good Idea

I work from home, so unless I'm on a conference call, I can take a...

July 06, 2017

Am I Different at Work and At Home?

As the wife and mother of British citizens and someone who has traveled frequently in...

June 2017

June 27, 2017

The Curse of Hard Work: Another View

So, if you've been reading this blog for long you know I have a lot...

June 16, 2017

We Have to Dare to Preach the Gospel

In this interview, the leader of the Moral Mondays movement talks about leading in the...

June 08, 2017

Why Are There So Few Mainline Celebrities?

The chilly relationship between mainline Protestantism and the popular marketplace has become a stable feature...

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