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Culture • Christianity & Culture

A Sense of Place in Globalization

Kwang Kim | 5 min read

Recently, I was talking with a Pastor friend at a coffee shop about the importance of a “sense of place” in a globalizing world. This is particularly relevant in Washington, DC, where many of our friends are frequently absent, “off the map,” spread across the globe. We both came from divided countries (Korea and Ireland)...

Faith • Liturgical Reflections

Resting with God in Mind

Dan Kirkbride | 4 min read

We didn’t think a lot about Sabbath keeping as I grew up on our southeast Wyoming ranch unless it was in the vein of the “ox in the well,” (Luke 14:5). Jesus had challenged the Pharisees that it would be acceptable to heal on the Sabbath just as you would rescue your son or an...

Vocation • On Daily Work

To Dwell in a Household: Menial Work, Meaning, and Motherhood

Kate Harris | 6 min read

The domestic joys, the daily housework or business, the building of houses / they are not phantasms / they have weight and form and location…” –Walt Whitman, To Think of Time If ever I came to the blank page with some legitimate expertise on a subject, I hope ordinariness might be it. I have been...

Vocation • On Daily Work

Healthcare Provision and the Discipline of Listening

Ryan Buchholz, Curt Thompson, Eden Garber, and Larry Bergstrom | 2 min read

How does a fallen world begin to heal? How do the shattered pieces get put back together to form a picture that is even more beautiful than it was to begin with? The answer: piece by piece. Those called of God take up their vocations. As Teresa Avila so eloquently puts it: Christ has...

Vocation • On Daily Work

Remembering Grammy

Dr. Steven Garber | 7 min read

Grace Winifred Coleman Elliott (A eulogy delivered March 2012 in Winchester, KS by Steven Garber celebrating the faithful, daily work of a life well-lived) To be known and to be loved— it is not a small thing in this world, and mostly we aren’t. Mostly we decide we can’t. More often than not, the more we...

Faith • Liturgical Reflections

Three Ways to Embrace “Downward Mobility” in Your Work this Lent

Mark O'Keefe | 6 min read

A cold wind blew through the plywood press box protruding over the top row of empty metal bleachers at Green Run High School in Virginia Beach, Va. It was a rainy Friday night in late October, with only a few hearty fans in the stands for a high school football game being played on a...

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