Vocation • On Daily Work To Dwell in a Household: Menial Work, Meaning, and Motherhood Kate Harris | 6 min read The domestic joys, the daily housework or business, the building of houses / they are not phantasms / they have weight and form and location…” –Walt Whitman, To Think of... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work The Work of Love Andi Ashworth | 6 min read For twenty-eight years I have written in journals, capturing the minutiae and momentous, the usual and unusual from every week since 1984. To date I have forty-three of these books... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work Dishes and Gene Kelly Rev. Dean Miller | 3 min read Almost every morning when I empty the dishwasher, I think of Gene Kelly. Allow me to explain. Like many of us, to get through graduate school I took on all... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work The Common and Uncommon Graces of Baseball Stadiums Dr. Steven Garber | < 1 min read In the earliest years of The Washington Institute, David Greusel flew from Kansas City to be part of our first Vocare evenings, ones where we focused on neighborhoods and cities,... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work Everyday Doxologists Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “In a word, we are created to be doxologists….” Jimmy Lin, The Rare Genomics Institute For Robert Coles, it was a day spent with Ruby Bridges—and his life was different... Continue Reading
Vocation • Visions of Vocation Suffering in our vocations in order to bless Shannon Geiger | 3 min read When money is tight or ideas fail, when leaders deceive or coworkers turn, it can be hard to discern what faithfulness to a particular calling looks like. Labored prayer and... Continue Reading