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... Continue Reading
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... Continue Reading
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... Continue Reading
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... Continue Reading
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,... Continue Reading
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,... Continue Reading
