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Culture • Christianity & Culture

Learning by Indwelling

Dr. Steven Garber | 6 min read

Keep on keeping on. In my dropped-out years in the early 1970s, I spent a year in a commune in the Bay Area of California. One of the posters of that counter-cultural moment-in-the-sun was of a very hip-looking guy with exaggerated features walking along, and the words, “Keep on keeping on.” In its own way...

Culture • Current Conversations

A Story of Healing

Dr. Steven Garber | 7 min read

Ray Blunt has worked in public service for 35 years, stewarding large ideas including public policy and strategic planning. His life mission and vocation for the past 20 years—“To help grow the next generation of servant leaders.” Larry Bergstrom practices “Integrative Medicine” at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale Arizona. Integrative Medicine aims to see health...

Faith • Liturgical Reflections

Wounds that Heal the World

Kate Harris | 6 min read

One day, John knew, Heaven would come down and mend God’s broken world and make it our true, perfect home once again. And he knew, in some mysterious way that would be hard to explain, that everything was going to be wonderful for once having been so sad. – Revelation 21, 22 as told in The...

Vocation • On Daily Work

Dishes and Gene Kelly

Rev. Dean Miller | 3 min read

Almost every morning when I empty the dishwasher, I think of Gene Kelly. Allow me to explain. Like many of us, to get through graduate school I took on all manner of jobs; retail, physical labor, tutoring. For a stretch due to the shortage of teachers in my home state of California I was a...

Culture • Christianity & Culture

On Good Lives and Good Communities

Fred Smith, Joel Lueb, Christine Buchholz, Judy Hill, Joshua Bingaman, Jena Nardella, Joel Harris, and Bennett Graham | 3 min read

“You see, I want a meaningful life, and that is why I am looking for work in the non-profit sector.” To my friend, the owner of a company that sells its products all over the world, the statement seemed stark, and disquieting. One of the most visionary of my friends, he is someone with a...

Vocation • On Daily Work

An Interview with Jonathan Chan

Jonathan Chan | 5 min read

As we celebrate Pentecost, we believe that God’s Spirit is powerfully at work in our lives, our communities, and our world, continuing the work of redemption and restoration begun by Christ on the cross. When we view the world through eschatology-tinted lenses, we see a vision of shalom in which healing comes to the nations. If there...

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