Culture • Vocation • On Daily Work Architecture and Design as a Peace-building Practice Tashya Leaman Dalen | 3 min read Every summer, the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) brings together practitioners from around the world interested in augmenting their training in peace and conflict transformation.... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations On the Power to Convene Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Washington DC is a strange and wonderful place. For years I have seen it as a city of glories and shames—sort of like each one of us, but magnified as... Continue Reading
Culture • Vocation • Christianity & Culture Being Wrong is Glorious Kate Harrison Brennan | 3 min read A journey through life in which we allow ourselves to ask such questions, and to apprehend beauty, is a journey in which we will learn to be wrong. And learn that being wrong is truly glorious, because it heightens our joy in finding and being found by God, whose beauty is past change. Continue Reading
Culture • Vocation • Christianity & Culture Honor, Shame, and Vocation Laura Merzig Fabrycky | 3 min read “There are basically three kinds of cultures in the world: guilt-based, fear-based, or shame-based. Guilt-based and fear-based cultures have been much more open to the good news of Jesus than... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Mission Drift is Worth the Read Steve Brooks | 3 min read Mission Drift, by Peter Greer and Chris Horst, is well worth the read. So good, in fact, it should be required reading by anyone who leads an organization – large... Continue Reading
Culture Vocation: Resurrection Madison Perry | 4 min read “Practice resurrection.” – Wendell Berry There’s a school of thought that says that moments of beauty and goodness are escapist – they distract us from life’s hard realities. Sweetness is... Continue Reading