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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...

Vocation • Finding Your Vocation

Resource List: Vocation in the Third Third of Life

Ray Blunt | 4 min read

By now the over documented aging of the Baby Boom Generation has inspired many jeremiads concerning the collapse of Social Security and Medicare, the paucity of caregivers for the rising nursing home population, and the irreplaceable loss of intellectual capital in our economy and daily lives. The situation, we perhaps comfort ourselves, is even worse...

Vocation • Visions of Vocation

The Last Lap: Vocation for the Elderly

Ray Blunt | 4 min read

Finishing Our Course with Joy: Guidance from God for Engaging with Our Aging, by J.I. Packer, Crossway, 2014, 99pp. Not too long after joining our vibrant and young church plant, our wonderful rector invited the congregation to look around at the “elderly” people in their midst. With a mixture of laughter and some embarrassment, necks...

Faith • Liturgical Reflections

Lent and the Lessons of Silence

Andy Scott | 3 min read

We live in a noisy world. A soundtrack of competing commercials and conversations, a cacophony of messages that form and reform our attention and desires. The high velocity noise of the TV, the Internet, and our culture at large always hurtling toward the next big thing. The message in the midst of all the noise:...

Faith • Liturgical Reflections

On Occupation & Ashes

Madison Perry | 3 min read

Do you feel trapped in an occupation? When asked to describe the perfect job, I often find myself frustrated, exclaiming: “It doesn’t exist!” Recently, a friend confessed a dark day-dream: at least once a day he imagines that if he were to die, the world would go on fine without him. He imagines this because...

Culture • Current Conversations

From Efficacy to Fidelity: An Interview with Tyler Wigg-Stevenson

Laura Merzig Fabrycky | 12 min read

Tyler Wigg-Stevenson talks with TWI's Missio about his book, The World is Not Ours to Save; the future of the Two Futures Project, and his assessment of nuclear politics today; and on the concept of vocation: "The New Testament asks of us . . . how are you what you are?"

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