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Vocation • Visions of Vocation

The Task of Translation

Dr. Steven Garber | 5 min read

Tacos and tortillas are easy. And adios is like that. But what about las golondrinas? and Sacramento? Having grown up in California, I began to learn Spanish in the second grade, making my way through elementary letters and numbers, year by year learning something of the complexity of another language. And while I never became...

Faith • Theological Reflections

Reweaving Shalom: An Interview with Author Hugh Whelchel

Rev. Joe Palekas | 13 min read

Things are not the way they are supposed to be – COVID, racial injustice, political division. The list goes on. Does the very fact that everyone agrees things should be different mean anything? Hugh Whelchel thinks so. Our recognition that things are not as they ought to be points us to a deeper reality –...

Vocation • Finding Your Vocation

“Because I Want To?” – A Christian Approach to Desire and Vocational Calling

Rev. Dr. Bill Fullilove | 10 min read

Many will remember the old game show The $64,000 Question, an American television staple in the 1950’s. As time passes, fewer may remember that the phrase predated the show. The phrase “$64,000 question” indicated the question at the heart of the issue, often the question hardest to answer. One can see the obvious appeal when...

Vocation • Finding Your Vocation

Embracing the Unknown: Rethinking the Job Search

John Kyle | 9 min read

Having a new job is exciting – new challenges and experiences, opportunities to work with new people, and chance to learn and grow professionally. Finding a new job, on the other hand, can seem like navigating a maze with many unexpected turns and dead ends. The ebbs and flows of the job search quickly turn...

Vocation • On Daily Work

Motherhood as Vocation

Kate Harris | 8 min read

This article is reposted from its first publication in 2009. We’ve found these reflections to have lasting relevance, and to be well worth revisiting. In Washington DC, it is only a matter of time before the kind woman standing next to me at a cocktail party will turn from talking with my husband and ask the inevitable,...

Vocation • Finding Your Vocation

Stop “Letting Go and Letting God”

Rev. Dr. Bill Fullilove | 14 min read

It is high time to put open and closed doors in their place. “Well, that’s an open door, so I guess God wants me to walk through it.” Or, “That’s a closed door, so it must not be God’s will.” Such statements sound like trust in God, but in fact they indicate Christians taking the...

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