Dr. Steven Garber, Author at The Washington Institute

Steven Garber has been a teacher of many people in many places, and was the founder of the Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation and Culture, now also serving as the Senior Fellow for Vocation and the Common Good for the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, as well as Professor at-Large for the Economics of Mutuality, and for several years was the Professor of Marketplace Theology at Regent College, Vancouver BC. The author of several books, his most recent is The Seamless Life: A Tapestry of Love and Learning, Worship and Work.

Articles by Dr. Steven Garber

Vocation • Visions of Vocation

“Hark, the Herald Angels Sing,” and Willie Nelson, Too: On Vocations Lost and Found

Dr. Steven Garber | 6 min read

Hark! the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King!” This past weekend I was in Houston, the vastness of Texas constrained in one metropolis that goes on and on… together with good people from all over America and the world. For several days we had deep conversations about things that matter to all of...

Vocation • Visions of Vocation

The Holy Land of our Lives: The Vocation of John Muir, and What His Means for Ours

Dr. Steven Garber | 7 min read

“I don’t like either the word [hiking] or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains — not hike! Do you know the origin of that word ‘saunter?’ It’s a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages...

Vocation • Visions of Vocation

The Complexity of Two Histories and Two Hopes

Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read

I’m not a romantic. There is too much that’s wrong in the world, and given my days and years I have listened to too much heartache and seen too much sorrow. Not only that which is the most profoundly personal, of disappointments and griefs which are the heart of our deepest hearts, but that which...

Vocation • Visions of Vocation

Over the Shoulder, Through the Heart

Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read

Over the shoulder, through the heart. An image that I never get far from, I think and think about it some more. My PhD studies drew me to learning about learning, especially the way that belief becomes behavior, that behavior becomes belief; and in the years of my life I have wondered time and again...

Vocation • Visions of Vocation

To Heal the Wound: The Vocation of Bishop Bienvenu

Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read

“He bent over all that groaned… the universe appeared to him an immense malady; he felt fever everywhere; he heard the sound of suffering all around him; and without trying to solve the enigma, he sought to heal the wound.” I read these words, again and again, year after year, wondering what they mean, wondering...

Culture • Popular Culture

Love and Lent and the Stories of Our Lives

Dr. Steven Garber | 5 min read

In the strangeness of our years, Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day were the same day in 2024, many reflecting on their deepest longings with lament, and then before the day was done remembering the loves of their lives sentimentally-born-of-Hallmark et al. In reality both days have a truer home in the honest hope of longing-become-love....

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