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Vocation • On Daily Work

Missio on Genesis 11: Our “Excessive Selfness”

Annie Riggins | 3 min read

Near my desk at work is a TV hanging from the ceiling, playing the news. The voices of our candidates, our news reporters, our First Lady, blare all day long. Today, during a commercial break, I heard “Learn languages online! Learn with Babbel.” My ears perked up, because this Genesis 11 passage had been on...

Vocation • Finding Your Vocation

Let’s Start at the Very Beginning (Again)

Rev. Dr. Bill Fullilove | 3 min read

We all live our life by some narrative, even if it’s only “I owe, I owe, so off to work I go.” The narrative frames the activity and gives it meaning. Of course, most of us have lived our lives without thinking carefully about the narrative that drives us. We go to work because everyone...

Faith • Biblical Reflections

Missio on Restoration (Revelation 21:22-22:6): The Undying Lands

Will Thompson | 3 min read

“Is everything sad going to come untrue?” ― J.R.R. Tolkien J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy is, in many (if not all respects), one of the greatest stories ever written. The fairy tale land of Middle-Earth bears a wide cast of characters who enter into a clearly demarcated battle of good versus evil....

Faith • Theological Reflections

Always Winter, Never Christmas

Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read

“It is winter in Narnia,” said Mr. Tumnus, “and has been for ever so long…. always winter, but never Christmas.” There are words that capture our imaginations, often from the very first time we hear them. I confess that when I read this so long ago now, I understood them— though now years later, I...

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