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Vocation • Visions of Vocation

Relational Healing

Houston Massey | 4 min read

A physician mentor once told me, “Healing is not simply transactional; it is highly relational.” In December of 2009, my father revealed the unexpected news that my mom had cancer, Acute Myeloid Leukemia. I was terrified. My mother, the All-American track athlete and record-breaking superstar was entering the toughest race of her life. For the...

Vocation • Visions of Vocation

Tacit Touch: Massage as Vocation and Art

Maggie Johns | 5 min read

“… Some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged Jesus to place his hand on him. After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man’s ears. Then he spit and touched the man’s tongue.” Mark 7:32-33 (NIV) I was...

Culture • Vocation • On Daily Work

Architecture and Design as a Peace-building Practice

Tashya Leaman Dalen | 3 min read

Every summer, the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) brings together practitioners from around the world interested in augmenting their training in peace and conflict transformation. This year, a new course was offered on architecture and design as a peacebuilding practice taught by Deanna Van Buren, architect, and Barb Toews, practitioner...

Faith • Liturgical Reflections

By His Wounds, We Are Healed

Adrienne Shore | 4 min read

I grew up in a small town in New England, a suburban area just outside of New York City. Most of my peers attended the large Catholic parish in town, and to me, it seemed our family of non-denominational evangelical Protestant Christians was in the minority. Every spring, I would overhear my friends talking about...

Faith • Biblical Reflections

Companions in the Fullness of Time

Mary Woodiwiss | 5 min read

This Advent, as we turn again - individually and corporately - to watch and wait for, to worship and adore, the Lord who both has come and will come again, will we believe that he can deliver us from all that threatens our groundedness in Him? Can we become capable of trusting that He will walk with us in the hardest of times?

Vocation

The Labor of Resurrection

Jessica Garber | 3 min read

When people hear that I am a labor and delivery nurse usually the first thing out of their mouths is “Oh, such happy nursing!” or “You get all the fun!” Or a squeal accompanied by an imaginary infant rocking between their arms—implying that my job involves holding cooing infants all day long. Mostly I smile and...

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