Vocation • Finding Your Vocation Conversation: Discerning Vocation as a Community C. Christopher Smith | 7 min read [Editor’s note: This is the third, and final, post in the “Slow Work of Life” series, a collaboration between TWI’s Missio and Slow Church exploring the patient ways that vocation can be cultivated in a community through... Continue Reading
Vocation • Finding Your Vocation Reading and Vocation in the Local Church C. Christopher Smith | 6 min read Cultures and community habits of reading books and resources including and beyond the Bible are foundational to developing our capacity to discern how to live faithfully to the scriptural story in our particular time and place. Continue Reading
Vocation • Visions of Vocation ReFraming the Stories of Our Lives Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read “When we were children we lived in a story that we had made up. But when I grew up the story wasn’t enough. I had to have something else, because... Continue Reading
Vocation • Visions of Vocation Living East of Eden Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read “I wonder what you want, what final thing?” The story of the Salinas Valley at the turn-of-the-20th-century, “East of Eden” deserves its praise, one of several novels earning Steinbeck the... Continue Reading
Vocation • Visions of Vocation On Being Implicated Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read A long time ago, I spent a summer in the Valley of the Sun. Just graduated from college, I had chosen to study with an Indian philosopher, Surrendra Gangadean whom... Continue Reading
Vocation • Visions of Vocation Tacit Touch: Massage as Vocation and Art Maggie Johns | 5 min read “… Some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged Jesus to place his hand on him. After he took him aside,... Continue Reading