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
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... Continue Reading
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... Continue Reading
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... Continue Reading
