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Vocation • Visions of Vocation

Making Peace with Proximate Justice

Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read

The question of my life. While I have spent years thinking about life in the world with my laptop open before me, this past year has been one in which...

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...

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...

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...

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...