Vocation • Visions of Vocation And the Rockets Red Glare– A Meditation on the Fourth of July Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “Choose a neighbor before you choose a house.” Meg and I have lived this way for the whole of our lives, drawing on the wisdom of good people who in... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work On Grandfathers and Grandsons, Cowboys and Cows Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read In a world of Avengers and Iron Men, it is hard to believe that cowboys still matter. When you can be a superman, leaping tall buildings, fighting off extra-terrestrial ogres,... Continue Reading
Vocation • Visions of Vocation Flying the Speaker In: Ambition, Distance, and Destiny Laura Merzig Fabrycky | 4 min read As a young pastor, years ago, my father was often bemused by the variable of travel — especially travel of great distances — to the significance, value, and draw of... Continue Reading
Vocation • Visions of Vocation Our Duty Is Ever Our Interest Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “That we may feel that our duty is ever our interest.” Perhaps it was Father’s Day, but my mind went to an old book on my shelf. Written in 1834... Continue Reading
Vocation • Visions of Vocation Is There a Vocation in Seeing? Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read Reconstituting the social world. Revitalizing the social ecology. A reappropriation of the idea of vocation or calling. Not language that most of us use. The words are from a very... Continue Reading
Vocation • Visions of Vocation Work Matters Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Why work? For all that the Marxist-Leninist vision got badly wrong, they got this right: work matters. And work matters because it has social meaning, even political meaning, especially economic... Continue Reading