For most of 30 years I’ve been meeting with two friends every Wednesday morning for a cup of something. Very ordinary people we are, we meet in very ordinary places like Panera or Peets, to talk about the vocations of our lives—and then go off into our work another day, taking up the callings and careers...
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“What’s the difference between my regular life, and my Christian life?” At the end of a summer school course on the nature of vocation, a woman who had been coming to Regent College from the other side of the world for nearly 30 years for week-long studies in the relationship of theology and life, asked...
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Intrinsic, not extrinsic. Somewhere in the American Southwest, I began to understand an idea that has run through my life for most of my life. A year earlier I had dropped out of college, and had spent the first year in a commune in the Bay Area of California, working on a magazine committed to...
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One of the newest streaming services, Britbox, recently served up An Inspector Calls, the seminal work of English playwright, J.B. Priestley. Being fond of many BBC features, I decided to give it a whirl, expecting a plot with a similar feel to other British mysteries. However, I never expected “Agatha Christie meets the Twilight Zone,”...
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The question of my life. While I have spent years thinking about life in the world with my laptop open before me, this past year has been one in which I have given more focused attention to that work. When we returned from Regent College, moving from Vancouver back to our home in Virginia— and...
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As I woke this morning, all I could do was shake my head, wondering why and how it could possibly be that yesterday happened; some days are more like that than others. Over the noon hour I spoke to a group of men and women from across Phoenix who deeply care about their city, and...
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