Vocation • On Daily Work Proximate Happiness Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read On proximate happiness. Yesterday morning we left Wyoming for Virginia, after spending the night with good friends, the Kirkbrides, whose family have been cattle ranchers for generations in the southeastern... Continue Reading
Vocation • Finding Your Vocation Knowing Always Means Doing Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Now that we know, what are we going to do? It has stopped surprising me how deeply that question is written into the ordinary rhythms of life. It is rare... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work On Sustainability Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Keeping things alive over time. This week I have been thinking about this again, as I do most weeks. In a certain way this has been the question of my... Continue Reading
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