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Vocation • Visions of Vocation

What’s Wrong with “Do What You Love”

Jeff Haanen | 3 min read

We’ve said it for so long to graduating college seniors it’s become almost gospel. Do what you love. Do what you’re passionate about. Don’t settle for just a job. Follow your dreams. But is this wisdom or just hot air? Gordon Marino recently wrote an op-ed for the New York Times about his experience at St. Olaf...

Vocation • On Daily Work

The Shadow of Vocation

Kyle David Bennett | 5 min read

“They sit on the couch and look at walls.” I had never heard that one before. To be honest, she wasn’t entirely off base: the philosopher likes to look. She likes to gaze. She likes to observe. Aristotle had his horse. Descartes had his candle. Heidegger had his hammer. But unlike the scientist, the philosopher’s...

Vocation • On Daily Work

Come and See

Sean Purcell | 4 min read

Once in a while we read a book and a phrase will stick with us long after we finish the book. Steve Garber’s new book, Visions of Vocation, has given me such a phrase. “One of the my deepest commitments is to the ”come and see” pedagogy of the Gospels. When the rabbi Jesus was...

Culture • Current Conversations

Mission Drift is Worth the Read

Steve Brooks | 3 min read

Mission Drift, by Peter Greer and Chris Horst, is well worth the read. So good, in fact, it should be required reading by anyone who leads an organization – large or small – even though the authors focus on faith-based organizations. I highly recommend this book if you are a board member, in the C-Suite...

Culture

Vocation: Resurrection

Madison Perry | 4 min read

“Practice resurrection.” – Wendell Berry There’s a school of thought that says that moments of beauty and goodness are escapist – they distract us from life’s hard realities. Sweetness is sappiness, nature walks are flights from reality, anything picturesque is saccharine. Here’s an example of a moment where that theory fails to explain what is...

Faith • Liturgical Reflections

The Resurrection and Good Funerals: An Interview with Mark Higgins

Adam Joyce | 11 min read

For Holy Week, Missio interviewed Mark Higgins, President of Hall-Wynne Funeral Service & Crematory in Durham, NC on his work as funeral director and the theology and practices of good funerals. Given that this week we remember the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, it is appropriate to reflect on the practices of how Christians...

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