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March 2016

March 23, 2016

The Origin of Knowing & Doing

As I left Pittsburgh the other day, I decided to leave slowly, lingering through some of...

March 02, 2016

Three Words We Should Care More About

Cult. Cultivate. Culture. About a month ago in Bratislava, Slovakia, at the conference, “Visions for the...

February 2016

February 17, 2016

A Conversation with a Stranger and Common Grace

“It was such a dark time.” A couple weeks ago I was on a train from...

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

When Peacemaking is Unpopular

Commonwealth is an unusual word in the modern world. Still used in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky...

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...

December 2015

December 30, 2015

Scrooge’s Question to Us

“If these shadows remain unaltered by the future….” Of all the scenes in A Christmas Carol, the...

December 23, 2015

Far as the Curse is Found

All of us have antennae. We watch for things, hoping that what we see and...

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 18, 2015

Mad Men and Reality

Falling, falling, falling…. and finally, he fell. When the clock struck 9:30 pm or so,...

November 11, 2015

M&M’s and Moral Capitalism

Editors' Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Consumerism Gone Wild....

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 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 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...

January 2015

January 26, 2015

What Makes a Good Life?

Sometimes words write themselves on our hearts. I still remember a conversation with a friend...

October 2014

October 20, 2014

Repairing the world

Originally published at the Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation, and Culture. Tikkun olam. There were...

October 15, 2014

Called to covenant: an excerpt from the book Visions of Vocation

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

September 2014

September 26, 2014

[AUDIO] Vocation is mission

Today we simply want to give you links to some wonderful talks by members of...

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

“Come and see!” It seems that all week I have been thinking about those words....

September 05, 2014

A pilgrim in the ruins

“You can get all A’s and still flunk life.” Most weeks I have reason to...

September 02, 2014

A new review of Visions of Vocation

Many of you already know of Byron Borger's brilliant book review blog, Hearts and Minds Booknotes....

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...

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 15, 2014

Vocation needs no justification

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