Vocation • Visions of Vocation What’s Wrong with “Faith and…”? Rev. Dr. Bill Fullilove | 2 min read “Faith and Work.” Life in the marketplace as a Christian. The term is part of a vast constellation of “Faith and’s.” Faith and freedom, faith and work, faith and family, faith and reason… And at one level, there’s nothing objectionable in the intent of the term, or really of any of these. They merely mean... Continue Reading
Faith • Theological Reflections True Spirituality Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read I go to a lot of places in the course of a year, and almost always they are settings that intrigue me for a host of complex reasons. Continue Reading
Culture • Vocation • On Daily Work Manipulable is Disposable John Kyle | 3 min read Genesis 1:26 gives a foundational characteristic of all people – we are made in the image of God: “Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over... Continue Reading
Faith • Theological Reflections A Visit to the Reframing Shop with Jesus Rev. Dr. Bill Fullilove | 2 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... Continue Reading
Vocation • Visions of Vocation The Way We See, and Why Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “When we describe, we do so as active agents whose intentions and moral character pervade our descriptions.” So wrote Greg Jones in Transformed Judgment: Toward a Trinitarian Account of the Moral Life. For some years now I have thought about his insight into the human heart, into the way we see, and the why of... Continue Reading
Faith • Liturgical Reflections Prayer for Labor Day Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read A prayer for labor, for the loves and the longings woven into the very work of our work. “O Lord and Maker of all things, from whose creative power the first light came forth, who looked upon the world’s first morning and saw that it was good, I praise you now for this light that... Continue Reading
