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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...

Vocation • On Daily Work

The Resurrection of Place

John Marsh | 3 min read

Places, like people, can die. Cities die because of purposelessness, but they grow through love and hope. The practice of resurrecting life in a city starts in the heart of God’s people, having a hope for its future. I have experienced the call to a place—a “there that is woven into every fiber of my being.” My heart is...

Culture • Christianity & Culture

Expectation Affects Program

Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read

Expectation affects program. Those words ran through my mind over the last couple of days, as I entered into conversations with good people from all over the country who gathered together to think about vocation and the missio Dei. The first evening I framed the time by reflecting on a summer’s study with a philosopher,...

Vocation • Finding Your Vocation

Seeing Seamlessly– On Kate Harris and Her New Book

Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read

Someone’s instincts go a long way– at least it seems that way to me. I remember sitting with Kate Fowler Harris in a Thai restaurant in Falls Church more than ten years ago, and listening to what she was thinking, and the way she was thinking. “Seamless” was the word that best captured what I...

Vocation • On Daily Work

Real Food is Real Work

Laura Merzig Fabrycky | 14 min read

TWI: To be fully transparent, we should acknowledge that this is our second recorded interview with you, Jessica, after a computer glitch wiped out our last one. Thank you for this generous donation of your time–again! We’ll look at our last conversation as a kind of a rough draft. I suppose it’s a lot like...

Vocation • On Daily Work

Well Grounded: A Barista’s Thoughts on Faith and Starbucks

Anna Harris | 4 min read

Adam Singleton, 27, has worked at the Starbucks Coffee Corporation for five years. For the past four he has been a shift supervisor. His work includes organizing, planning, and problem-solving within the standards and daily routine that come with working in a Starbucks coffee shop. The following interview explores his thoughts on the relationship between...

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