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Vocation • Visions of Vocation

Learning About Vocation

Dr. Steven Garber | 5 min read

“Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys….” Most of life is autobiographical, and that’s as true of me as of anyone. Simply said, I am my grandfather’s grandson, and he was a hero to me for all the days of my life. I still remember seeing him ride off on his horse...

Culture • Popular Culture

Merle and Me… Breaking Up Was Hard to Do

Tod Moquist | 6 min read

(With gladness, I welcome Tod Moquist to our pages. One of my oldest friends, we began conspiring in first grade, growing up a block from each other in the great San Joaquin Valley of California. Years later, I was the editor of our high school newspaper, and Tod was the editorial editor and cartoonist; that...

Culture • Popular Culture

Uncommon Grace, Uncommon Heroism

Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read

For a few years I lived my life in light of the mountain men, imagining my very ordinary days enlarged by the companionship of Kit Carson, William Sublette, Jim Beckwourth, Jedidiah Smith and Jim Bridger. Their adventures became my adventures. Long a lover of stories, and these tales told of brave men, unusual men, visionary...

Culture • Popular Culture

Of the Father’s Love Begotten….

Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read

I do love music, and love different kinds of music. But of all the music I know, this Christmas carol is one of those I love best. That it is centuries-old is important to me, as I have consciously chosen to root myself in the deeper, longer story of human life under the sun that...

Culture • Popular Culture

Who Are We, Anyway?

Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read

“What are the Japanese peasants looking for in me? These people who live and work and die like beasts find for the first time in our teaching a path in which they can cast away the fetters that bind them…. for a long time they have lived in resignation to such a fate.” The Washington...

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