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October 2025

October 08, 2025

Why Beth Felker Jones is Protestant

I am wrestling with the fact that I am wrestling with this book.

May 2024

May 29, 2024

Every Vocation Everywhere All At Once

What is a vocation? How does it endure through the years? Can it change? How...

July 2022

July 16, 2022

Not Made for the Harbo(u)r

This post is just a quick announcement: I love this song, I love this cartoon...

September 2021

September 27, 2021

Songs of Praise – and Vocation

I've recently been watching previous episodes of the famous BBC TV program (I should...

August 2021

August 11, 2021

Use the Breath: On What Music Teaches Us About Life

Written in 2014 to honor the first anniversary of the death of a beloved college...

December 2020

December 06, 2020

The Story of Dog

This has not much to do with money or economics. It has something to do...

March 2019

March 07, 2019

All the Tiny Little Pieces

Take one boss and imagine him or her setting a course for the next few...

January 2019

January 15, 2019

New Year, New Me? Rest and Burnout

I made two New Years' resolutions this year: to start blogging here again, and to...

April 2018

April 10, 2018

Being From a Long Line of People Outstanding in Their Field….

....means you may end up contemplating Neville Longbottom and writing this poem. "Of your charity,...

March 2018

March 29, 2018

It’s Opening Day. Here’s a Poem About the Vocation of Baseball.

The game may falter, but does not forget.

March 24, 2018

Top 10 Things I Hate About Being the Poster Child for the Gig Economy

Did I mention doing taxes?

January 2018

January 09, 2018

Hospitality and Vocation (It’s Tricky)

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

November 2017

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?

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.

March 2017

March 08, 2017

Millennial Women Are Burning Out

So says an article in Fast Company: Two years ago, Michelle* was a thriving real...

March 04, 2017

What if a university was designed to only produce workers?

I ran into an interesting post by Rhett Allain at Wired wondering about that question. Administrators...

March 02, 2017

A man putting fatherhood first

I like all sorts of things about this interview with Andy Crouch, but one that...

February 2017

February 26, 2017

Christian faith at Deutsche Telekom

...as outlined in this profile at Seedbed of Andrea Baare, a corporate chaplain: As a...

February 08, 2017

Why we need a new theology of work

Excellent points about work and faith made by Jonathan Malesic here recently: American workers put in...

January 2017

January 03, 2017

Taking a detour off the career path to live Jesuit values

A bit late to the party with noticing this (file that under "need better work-life...

October 2016

October 16, 2016

The Little Jobs Who Won’t Sing

Reprinted from The Green Room. A few months ago, I attended the Acton Institute (you...

May 2016

May 08, 2016

Chasing problems is a key to social innovation

What fuels the minds of people pursuing innovations to make the world a better, more...

February 2016

February 21, 2016

What the Image of God Means for Our Dignity and Work

By Art Lindsley The number one fear of the millennial generation is living a meaningless...

December 2015

December 03, 2015

NEWS: ReFrame Goes Global

We just got this nice news from the folks at ReFrame about new foreign-language versions...

November 2015

November 30, 2015

Watch GOING ON VOCATION documentary for free!

Right now, the first section of Vision Video's great new Going on Vocation: Exploring Work...