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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,...

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...

October 2017

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 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...

October 2016

October 12, 2016

My First Eucharist

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace. Hebrews 4:16...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

In praise of ordinary work

Here's a chapel talk by Chris Armstrong, director of "Opus: The Art of Work" at...

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...

November 2015

November 19, 2015

When I’m 85: A Journey With Dr. John Perkins

By David Spickard: published at the Jobs for Life blog on 11 On an unseasonably...

November 02, 2015

4 Radical Ideas About Evangelism

By Bill Peel (read Bill's debate with Progressive Christian Channel blogger John Shore here.) When...

October 2015

October 07, 2015

Don’t Search for Purpose: You Will Fail

That's what a recent article in the New Republic had to say about our desire...

September 2015

September 25, 2015

Don’t Let Unemployment Undo Your Identity

Let's face it. Our identity and work are closely aligned--and rightly so because God made us...

July 2015

July 08, 2015

How should I choose a career?

Today most career counselors and well-meaning friends would respond to this question with: What...

May 2015

May 13, 2015

Coltrane and calling: a message for jazz appreciation month

By Caroline Cross April in the District of Columbia is a magical time of year....

April 2015

April 25, 2015

Your job is NOT a vocation

By Malcolm B. Yarnell III Today we use words like “calling” and “vocation” in association...

April 24, 2015

From the archives: [VIDEO] God’s good plan

How does the message of Genesis inform how we engage with the modern world?

April 01, 2015

“I Don’t Have a Job, I Have a Higher Calling:” Responses to the #WSJ article

By Bill Peel In “I Don’t Have a Job. I Have a Higher Calling” (WSJ,...

March 2015

March 17, 2015

From the archives: [VIDEO] How is failure part of life?

What happens when your journey takes you to unexpected places?

March 15, 2015

From the archives: Vocation, the holy grail of corporate America

Five hundred billion dollars. That’s how much economists estimate the US economy loses every year...

March 11, 2015

God is in all of life: #1 of a series

Today we're starting a series of posts on Luther, Lutherans, and calling by Lutheran pastor...

February 2015

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...

January 2015

January 15, 2015

Martin Luther King Jr. on the Blueprint of Life

“What is your life’s blueprint?” Six months before he was murdered, Martin Luther King delivered...

January 14, 2015

Following a distinctive call

This interview with Greg Forster is part of a symposium on vocation between the Patheos Faith and...

January 09, 2015

From the archives: Blooming where you are planted

"You can “bloom” whether you work in a secular or Christian setting. It’s imperative that...

December 2014

December 03, 2014

Vocation and Jobs

By Dr. Frederick W. Schmidt, Jr. I’ve been through two employment crises. Three if you...

November 2014

November 17, 2014

WEEKLY ROUNDUP: News to challenge and encourage about faith and work

So many great articles are crossing my desk that your humble scribe doesn't have time...

November 07, 2014

Seeing purpose in the mundane

By Emily Ann Higginbotham Being an intern at a financial firm has given me incredible...

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...