Kate Harris is the former Director of Programs and Development for The Washington Institute, wife to a good man and mother of their four children.

Articles by Kate Harris

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Motherhood as Vocation

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This article is reposted from its first publication in 2009. We’ve found these reflections to have lasting relevance, and to be well worth revisiting.   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,...

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The Myth of Balance

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Several months ago I was invited to lead a breakout seminar at a conference on calling and the common good, offering some reflections about what it looks like to take up calling across all of life, but especially with a view to the ordinary, unsexy realities of daily life. I smiled when I arrived at...

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The Heart of Vocation

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“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” – Nelson Mandela It is hard to go very far in conversations about vocation without very quickly getting tripped up on language. Discussion about a person’s longing...

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