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May 2015

May 22, 2015

Encouraging ALL calls to ministry!

This post was originally written for an audience of Methodists in Indiana but we here...

May 18, 2015

Exposing college students to vocation: a case study

By Elaine Bernius An exploration of God’s calling on everyone’s life was at the center...

May 16, 2015

Let your life speak: how to understand your vocational call

How do you discern your vocational path? How do you decide what your contribution to...

May 05, 2015

A slow leak

By Mike Coyner Recently the left rear tire on my car starting losing air. My...

April 2015

April 06, 2015

The most important step to finding your calling

By Dan Cumberland She was burnt out. I could see the pain in her eyes...

April 03, 2015

More disciples, not more members: #6 in a series

Last in a series of posts on Luther, Lutherans, and calling by Lutheran pastor Adam...

March 2015

March 28, 2015

Moving the pastor out of the center: #5 in a series

Fifth in a series of posts on Luther, Lutherans, and calling by Lutheran pastor Adam...

March 24, 2015

The sacrifice to which all Christians are called: #4 in a series

Fourth in a series of posts on Luther, Lutherans, and calling by Lutheran pastor Adam...

March 20, 2015

God is abundantly everywhere: #3 in a series

Third in a series of posts on Luther, Lutherans, and calling by Lutheran pastor Adam...

March 16, 2015

No super-Christians: #2 in a series

Second in a series of posts on Luther, Lutherans, and calling by Lutheran pastor Adam...

February 2015

February 27, 2015

Pick your palm tree

This post comes to us from The Well. Thanks, folks! By Heather Ardrey There are...

February 18, 2015

Does the perfect job exist? A Lenten thought

Madison Perry of the Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation, and Culture has been wondering that...

February 05, 2015

Going on vocation. Yes, Google, I said “vocation”

Work is no vacation, right? We have some good friends at Christian History Institute, as...

January 2015

January 13, 2015

God’s will is as large as a big barn door

This post is part of a symposium on vocation between the Patheos Faith and Work Channel and...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

New Year’s Eve: Eugene Peterson on Vocation

On New Years Eve, 1868, Andrew Carnegie sat alone in his room in the St....

December 30, 2014

From the archives: The top ten pain points people face at work

These come to us from Doug Spada at WorkLife.org. You can read more about them...

November 2014

November 02, 2014

Can you follow your calling by standing still?

By Medi Volpe I should be writing about tenderness. (Apologies @NDLiturgyCenter…) Or I should be...

October 2014

October 19, 2014

From the archives: How to choose a career: Advice from a Puritan pastor

Just because there’s a market for a particular line of work doesn’t mean we should...

October 15, 2014

A 1949 guide to doing what you love

This channel's been home recently to some musings on the "Do What You Love" school...

September 2014

September 27, 2014

Made for more, part 2

Following up on our post a couple days ago about fathers quitting work to spend...

August 2014

August 09, 2014

God has many kinds of servants (says Martin Luther)

This is one more excerpt from our friends at Christian History Institute and their great new issue of Christian...

August 07, 2014

“Have I no harvest but a thorn to let me blood?”

Since our last poem in this space turned out to be surprisingly popular, here's another...

August 03, 2014

Jobs you couldn’t do in the early church. Really.

This comes via our friends at Christian History Institute and their great new issue of Christian...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

How does God guide college students?

Much of this recent blog post by Stephen Rankin, the chaplain at Southern Methodist University,...

July 16, 2014

Why work?

Yes, I wonder about that question too. :-) One of the most famous musings on...

July 11, 2014

Dear God, please help me choose a major

I remembered my own struggles with that very question when I read a recent article...

June 2014

June 27, 2014

What’s wrong with “do what you love?”

We’ve said it for so long to graduating college seniors it’s become almost gospel. Do...

June 25, 2014

Does blue-collar work have any meaning?

Today guest contributor Larry Saunders writes about moving from the white-collar to the blue-collar workplace—and...

June 23, 2014

Three strategies to align your talents and your dreams

We love our friends at The High Calling here on the Patheos Faith and Work...

June 20, 2014

Are you a Monday morning atheist?

Doug Spada of WorkLife.org sends us that probing question, and a whole lot of others,...