Adam Joyce, Author at The Washington Institute

Articles by Adam Joyce

Culture • Current Conversations

Technology in Pursuit of the Truth: An Interview with Andrew Fennig

Adam Joyce | 7 min read

Andrew Fennig started in the public sector working to solve problems with good policy and is now in the private sector trying to do the same with good technology. He is currently launching Conferam, a discussion platform designed exclusively for disagreement. When all sides of a controversy can address each other’s concerns on the same...

Culture • Current Conversations

Justice and Life

Adam Joyce | 3 min read

Hannah Andret famously said “the Nazi crimes … explode the limits of the law.” There are crimes that are too large, too inhuman, too evil for them to be understood within the human idea of “the law.” The crimes are so horrific that any punishment or recompense seems inadequate, paltry. Justice covers her eyes not because she...

Culture • Popular Culture

What I Learned from Will Campbell

Adam Joyce | 3 min read

Will Campbell died last week. There was a small flurry of obituaries that seemed to struggle at including the breadth and almost contradictory spectrum of his life. He worked extensively on the front lines of the civil rights movement with Dr. King and drank whiskey with Klansmen. He was a pastor without a church. A few years...

Vocation • Finding Your Vocation

Early We Receive a Call

Adam Joyce | 3 min read

“Early we receive a call, yet it remains incomprehensible, and only late do we discover how obedient we were.” -Czeslaw Milosz Vocation is about confessing what is true about God, not just about recognizing truths about yourself. The question of “Who am I?” and “What am I to do?” begins with the question of “Who...

Vocation • On Daily Work

An Interview with Eldon Stoffel

Adam Joyce | 5 min read

Eldon Stoffel is a painter who lives in the Washington, D.C. area. TWI: How have you developed your own sense of calling and theological language for your work? Are there any tensions or complexities that trip you up when you think about your work being part of God’s work? When I came to the Lord...

Culture • Christianity & Culture

Skipping the Sabbath

Adam Joyce | 3 min read

The Evangelical faith and work conversation has gone through a renaissance recently. First in the 1980s and again in past 10 years books, articles and blogs addressing the subject of work have become nothing short of populous. Yet across the board, Sabbath-keeping makes a rare appearance in the faith and work discussion. Whether Lutheran or...

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