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March 2016
March 23, 2016
As I left Pittsburgh the other day, I decided to leave slowly, lingering through some of...
February 2016
February 10, 2016
Our Moral Responsibility to Pay Attention
Pay attention. I have been teaching for a long time, and I confess that while I...
January 2016
January 27, 2016
Commonwealth is an unusual word in the modern world. Still used in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky...
December 2015
December 30, 2015
“If these shadows remain unaltered by the future….” Of all the scenes in A Christmas Carol, the...
December 16, 2015
“What are the Japanese peasants looking for in me? These people who live and work...
November 2015
November 18, 2015
Falling, falling, falling…. and finally, he fell. When the clock struck 9:30 pm or so,...
November 11, 2015
Editors' Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Consumerism Gone Wild....
October 2015
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
“When we describe, we do so as active agents whose intentions and moral character pervade...
September 09, 2015
A prayer for labor, for the loves and the longings woven into the very work...
September 02, 2015
“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
Some evenings simply mean more. Like one from a few weeks ago when Meg and...
August 05, 2015
Seeing Ourselves As Implicated
“It would’ve been easier to join the garden club.” Not that she has anything against...
June 2015
June 10, 2015
The pilgrimage that takes you home
This excerpt from Steve Garber’s book Visions of Vocation is reprinted here with the kind permission...
May 2015
May 27, 2015
This excerpt from Steve Garber’s book Visions of Vocation is reprinted here with the kind permission...
May 13, 2015
Knowing what you know, what are you going to do?
This excerpt from Steve Garber’s book Visions of Vocation is reprinted here with the kind permission...
April 2015
April 29, 2015
C. S. Lewis and the tears of God
This excerpt from Steve Garber’s book Visions of Vocation is reprinted here with the kind permission...
April 15, 2015
This excerpt from Steve Garber’s book Visions of Vocation is reprinted here with the kind permission...
April 01, 2015
“What wonder have you done to me?”
This excerpt from Steve Garber’s book Visions of Vocation is reprinted here with the kind permission...
January 2015
January 26, 2015
Sometimes words write themselves on our hearts. I still remember a conversation with a friend...
October 2014
October 25, 2014
Originally posted at the Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation, and Culture. I still remember feeling...
October 20, 2014
Originally published at the Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation, and Culture. Tikkun olam. There were...
October 09, 2014
All of learning. All of labor. All of life.
“Es como el sagrado sacramento!” At the turn of the 18th-century, Gabriel Moraga led the...
October 02, 2014
Originally published at the Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation, and Culture. “What is the common...
September 2014
September 30, 2014
Merry Michelmas (or, what do angels have to do with work?)
Posted on September 30, 2014 by Laura Merzig Fabrycky at the Washington Institute blog, Missio. As one of the defining features...
September 23, 2014
Conceptual congruity. Recently I spent a couple hours in a Google Hangout with several people...
September 14, 2014
A worldview. A mentor. A community.
Originally posted in August 2014. I still remember the day when I first saw that...
September 09, 2014
“Come and see!” It seems that all week I have been thinking about those words....
September 05, 2014
“You can get all A’s and still flunk life.” Most weeks I have reason to...
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