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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,...

Faith • Liturgical Reflections

Seeing Calvary in “Calvary”

Dr. Steven Garber | 5 min read

“Do not despair; one of the thieves was saved. Do not presume; one of the thieves was damned.” — St. Augustine These words from St. Augustine are meant for our musing in the tale of tenderness and tragedy that is the film, “Calvary,” beginning in the village church with a priest hearing a confession through...

Culture • Current Conversations

“Goodbye Lenin!” and the Failure of the Marxist Vision

Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read

“Workers of the world unite— all you have to lose are your chains!” The terrible irony of Marx’s challenge to the 19th-century is that wherever his revolution went, workers were in fact chained in. The Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist vision of human being in the world was the cause of untold sorrow for millions upon millions of people...

Faith • Liturgical Reflections

The Beautiful and the Useful: Hugo, Les Miserables, and Lent

Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read

“You are mistaken; the beautiful is as useful as the useful… more so, perhaps.” These words have been running through my heart the last week. Making sense of life for life, of what matters and what doesn’t, of what we believe to be the good, the true and the beautiful, and what is not, is...

Vocation • On Daily Work

November 11: A Sacred Day for a Biblical Calling

Rev. Nathan Newman | 9 min read

On November 11, 2021, thousands of Washington, D.C. locals and visitors processed in reverent silence to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, commemorating its one hundredth year. Situated in the heart of Arlington National Cemetery, and established on November 11, 1921 when an unknown World War I American soldier was buried in Arlington,...

Vocation • On Daily Work

Why Work?

Hugh Whelchel | 9 min read

According to the Wall Street Journal: “The COVID economic shock has unleashed unprecedented creative destruction, sharply accelerating the transformation that we once quaintly called the “future of work.”[i]Others suggest that this new normal “Work 2.0” was inevitable.[ii] With Millennials comprising most of today’s workforce, including their common demand for relaxed office environments and flexible schedules,...

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