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Vocation • Visions of Vocation

Common Grace. Common Good. Common Ground.

Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read

For most of 30 years I’ve been meeting with two friends every Wednesday morning for a cup of something. Very ordinary people we are, we meet in very ordinary places like Panera or Peets, to talk about the vocations of our lives—and then go off into our work another day, taking up the callings and careers...

Vocation • Finding Your Vocation

The Courage to Choose

Ryan Goyer | 7 min read

What do you do when there’s no single “right answer”? Like many 20-somethings, I’ve spent the last few years wondering about my how my future career might turn out, constantly finding myself asking the question I’ve been hearing my whole life: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I finished college with...

Vocation • Visions of Vocation

Mentoring a Georgian-era Daniel: John Newton and William Wilberforce

Karen J. Ristuccia | 14 min read

Resolved once again about Mr N. . . . It may do good, he will pray for me; his experience may enable him to direct me to new grounds of humiliation . . . it can do no harm, for this is a scandalous objection that keeps occurring to me, that if ever my sentiments...

Vocation • Finding Your Vocation

Why You (Yes, You) Need a Hobby

Chris Heinz | 10 min read

I recently joined an industry trade group and was asked what my hobbies were. I struggled to answer. I couldn’t think of a hobby, let alone multiple ones! Do working people actually have hobbies? With all the things that I have to do and a career to conquer, I cannot imagine having a hobby. Aren’t...

Vocation • Visions of Vocation

A Signpost of What Someday Will Be: Remembering Tim Russell

Dr. Steven Garber | 7 min read

“I’m still angry, and I’m going to be.” A few years ago I spent several days in Memphis, Tennessee, speaking on vocation as “common grace for the common good.” Believing in the ancient wisdom of “even your own poets have said,” I want to listen to where I am, to speak into where I am,...

Vocation • Visions of Vocation

On Films and Food, and More

Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read

What does food mean, anyway? And why do we eat? For years I have been drawn into the profoundly-formed vision of Alexander Schmemann, even beginning courses on vocation by asking my students to read his book, “For the Life of the World.” At its heart it is an exploration of the belief that everything matters,...

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