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January 2016

January 06, 2016

The Way the World’s Supposed to Be

The way the world’s supposed to be. Is there a world like that? Do we...

November 2015

November 25, 2015

Thankful for Good Neighbors

Neighbors by choice. There is nothing magic about it, though I am sure there are...

November 04, 2015

A Glimpse into The Gathering

The most beautiful, and the most broken, all together— making sense of both is the...

October 2015

October 28, 2015

The Good Work of the Praxis Labs

What makes good work good? A lot could be said, and has. But it’s a...

October 21, 2015

Conversations with Consequences

Conversations with consequences. A few weeks ago I was staying up on Lookout Mountain, a rangy...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

The Way We See, and Why

“When we describe, we do so as active agents whose intentions and moral character pervade...

September 23, 2015

Our Questions, Our Callings, Our Committments

It was a Donegal year.Before 1972 I’m sure that I never heard the name, but...

September 09, 2015

A Prayer for Labor Day

A prayer for labor, for the loves and the longings woven into the very work...

September 02, 2015

Head and Heart and Hands

“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We...

August 2015

August 26, 2015

Remarkable Joy, Remarkable Sadness

Sadness and joy. Sometimes we read something, and it simply jumps off of the page....

August 20, 2015

Longing for Something More

Some evenings simply mean more. Like one from a few weeks ago when Meg and...

August 12, 2015

Over the Shoulder, Through the Heart

Over the shoulder, through the heart. For most of my life I have thought about the...

August 05, 2015

Seeing Ourselves As Implicated

“It would’ve been easier to join the garden club.” Not that she has anything against...

March 2015

March 15, 2015

For the sake of the world: A Lenten mediation

Is it possible to have contemplative lives amidst the crowds, in the middle of the...

March 04, 2015

What makes the difference?

This excerpt from Steve Garber’s book Visions of Vocation is reprinted here with the kind permission...

October 2014

October 02, 2014

Caritas and the common good

Originally published at the Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation, and Culture. “What is the common...

September 2014

September 23, 2014

Assuming coherence

Conceptual congruity. Recently I spent a couple hours in a Google Hangout with several people...

August 2014

August 17, 2014

Praxis: where belief becomes behavior

Remember your Creator during your youth: when all possibilities lie open before you and you...

August 05, 2014

Hints of hope, again

“We are not great shots across the bow of history; rather by simple grace, we...

July 2014

July 29, 2014

“Come and See”

Recently some members of the Patheos Faith and Work Channel staff attended the Washington Institute's...

July 19, 2014

Making sense of things

“I’ve come to believe that war, as terrible as it is, is very clarifying for...

July 15, 2014

Vocation needs no justification

Further up and further in. Recently I spent several hours with a learning cohort of...

July 03, 2014

Whatever is, is right

“Altogether, the Old Bailey, at that date, was a choice illustration of the precept, that...

June 2014

June 29, 2014

On the power to convene

Washington DC is a strange and wonderful place. For years I have seen it...

June 24, 2014

The covenantal cosmos

Common grace for the common good. Recently I gave the commencement address at Covenant Theological...

June 14, 2014

Dear Steve: How do I find work that matters–and pays?

From: Deanna Subject: "Work" versus a paying Job I am always busy doing something. It...

June 11, 2014

Charlie Peacock and his muses

(Originally posted January 2014) Even Charlie Peacock needs a muse, the artist’s artist that he...

June 04, 2014

What is education all about, anyway?

(Originally posted December 2013) Lewis and Clark. An expedition but also a college, and yesterday...

June 01, 2014

Integral, not incidental

(Originally published in May 2014.) Integral, not incidental. I think most of us want coherent...

May 2014

May 28, 2014

Have mercy upon us

I do love a good story. And it’s not always apparent on the first page....