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Vocation • On Daily Work

On the Nature of Goodness and Work

Cara Brown | 3 min read

Among mankind, there are few things that tend to cause more dissatisfaction, apathy, and bitterness than work. Work is viewed as a means to an end, namely money, and is, therefore, a necessary evil. Seldom do people refer to labor as inherently good, but instead refer to a good living or making a good wage. ...

Vocation • Visions of Vocation

Whither the Christian Environmentalist?

Hannah Kinkaid | 3 min read

As an environmentalist, the creation story is foundational to my calling. Not only does it remind us that God is the ultimate creator, but it also reminds us of how things were meant to be in this world and how they will one day be restored. This gives us hope and new purpose in our...

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...

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...

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...

Vocation • Finding Your Vocation

Conversation: Discerning Vocation as a Community

C. Christopher Smith | 7 min read

[Editor’s note: This is the third, and final, post in the “Slow Work of Life” series, a collaboration between TWI’s Missio and Slow Church exploring the patient ways that vocation can be cultivated in a community through particular communal disciplines. Read the first post, by Josh Stoxen, here, and the second one on reading and vocation, also by Chris Smith, here.] As...

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