Vocation • On Daily Work Working For a Bad Boss Rev. Ryan Laughlin | 9 min read Who was the worst boss you ever had? I suspect a name and a face come quickly to mind. In fact, bad leaders are easy to remember. While some of... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work The Need to be Needed: Finding Dignity in Our Life’s Work Erin Rodewald | 13 min read More than a dozen years have passed since we buried my father-in-law. I sometimes wonder what he would make of our historical moment. Jim had a servant’s heart, and COVID... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work November 11: A Sacred Day for a Biblical Calling Rev. Nathan Newman | 9 min read On November 11, 2021, thousands of Washington, D.C. locals and visitors processed in reverent silence to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, commemorating its one hundredth year. Situated... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work Why Work? Hugh Whelchel | 9 min read According to the Wall Street Journal: “The COVID economic shock has unleashed unprecedented creative destruction, sharply accelerating the transformation that we once quaintly called the “future of work.”[i]Others suggest that... Continue Reading
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... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work Menial Work Matters Rev. Michael Langer | 9 min read “Excuse me. Could you spare some change so I can make a phone call?” Those were the first words Marc ever said to me. I heard them as I was... Continue Reading
