Vocation • On Daily Work To Dwell in a Household: Menial Work, Meaning, and Motherhood Kate Harris | 6 min read The domestic joys, the daily housework or business, the building of houses / they are not phantasms / they have weight and form and location…” –Walt Whitman, To Think of... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work The Work of Love Andi Ashworth | 6 min read For twenty-eight years I have written in journals, capturing the minutiae and momentous, the usual and unusual from every week since 1984. To date I have forty-three of these books... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work Dishes and Gene Kelly Rev. Dean Miller | 3 min read Almost every morning when I empty the dishwasher, I think of Gene Kelly. Allow me to explain. Like many of us, to get through graduate school I took on all... Continue Reading
Faith • Biblical Reflections The Ordinary Day Chris Anderson | 7 min read And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work The Common and Uncommon Graces of Baseball Stadiums Dr. Steven Garber | < 1 min read In the earliest years of The Washington Institute, David Greusel flew from Kansas City to be part of our first Vocare evenings, ones where we focused on neighborhoods and cities,... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Wonderfully, Horribly Complex as We Are Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read The human heart is complex—wonderfully so, horribly so. And at our best we see through a glass darkly, knowing some things, not knowing other things. I thought of this today... Continue Reading
