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Motherhood as Vocation

Motherhood as Vocation

In Washington DC, it is only a matter of time before the kind woman standing next to me at a cocktail party will turn from talking with my husband and ask the inevitable, identity-testing, status-gauging question I have come to dread as a new and mostly stay-at-home mother…“And what do you do?” ....more >

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Making Peace with Proximate Justice

by Steve Garber

A few years ago a pastor in the city asked if I would meet someone in his congregation whose work was in the world of national security. A senior official with complex responsibilities, he knew that his deepeningfaith required him to “think Christianly” about his life and labour, but he did not know where to begin.

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SERVANT LEADERSHIP JOURNAL

On a Mission

by Ray Blunt

Martin Luther doesn’t make many appearances in the pages of the numerous leadership tomes that reach bookstore shelves each year...but what not many may know is that those in public service owe him a large debt of gratitude because he introduced the idea that a calling (i.e. a vocation) is of critical importance in secular life.

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ECHOES

Christ in the Workplace

by Rome Hartman

The question that I think I’ve heard more often than any other over the years here is, “How do you manage to be a believer in the mainstream media?” I guess it’s a good question, but the honest answer I think is that it’s hard to be God’s person or a follower of Christ no matter what your profession.

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ARTICLES & WRITINGS

Culturally unpopular, personally difficult, critically important: Mentorship

by Susan Den Herder

Years ago I remember listening in on a conversation, and deciding that if I had ever had the opportunity to study again, that I wanted to spend some years trying to understand why for some people a young adult faith grows into a mature adult faith, and why others stumble and fall

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"...We need Christian people to work as healers: as healing judges and prison staff, as healing teachers and administrators, as healing shopkeepers and bankers, as healing musicians and artists, as healing writers and scientists, as healing diplomats and politicians.

We need people who will hold on to Christ firmly with one hand and reach out the other...to the places where our world is in pain..."

N.T. Wright
For All God's Worth

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