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Visions of Vocation

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March 2016

March 09, 2016

The Danger of Cheap Ideas

A couple days ago I talked all day long to a group of academic leaders...

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...

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...

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 04, 2014

What is education all about, anyway?

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

May 2014

May 16, 2014

On vocation and occupation

We long for what we do to grow out of who we are, for our...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

To the nth degree

What seems almost innocent to begin with very often becomes horrific before the day is...

April 19, 2014

Expectation affects program

What we believe about the future affects the way we live, and this is true...

April 14, 2014

To know the world and to still love it

To be implicated, for love’s sake. In many ways, that is the question of my...

April 09, 2014

Conversations with consequences, again

Can it all make sense? Does it hold together? How do I find my way...

April 01, 2014

Questions and their consequences

Who are we? What kind of world do we live in? What does it mean...

February 2014

February 15, 2014

Vocation as sacramental and seamless

Sometimes heaven meets earth in a hamburger. At least I think that’s possible– and when...

January 2014

January 28, 2014

Is there a vocation in seeing?

What might it mean to see one’s work as a calling? Does it make any...

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