Vocation • Visions of Vocation Something More Seamless Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read “What’s the difference between my regular life, and my Christian life?” At the end of a summer school course on the nature of vocation, a woman who had been coming... Continue Reading
Vocation • Visions of Vocation He Takes Her Pain into His Hands Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “He takes her pain into his hands.” Wanting to pay attention—in that deepest way that Simone Weil calls us to —I have been reading a novel by Eugene Vodolazkin, set... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work Dealing with Disappointment at Work John Kyle | 5 min read Working with young adults starting their first jobs, I am often asked about disappointment at work. The expectation-reality gap of a new job can be an especially striking and confusing... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work Working For a Bad Boss Rev. Dr. 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 • Visions of Vocation On January 1 Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read There is a day when the road neither comes nor goes, and the way is not a way but a place. — Wendell Berry Poetry is mystery. Sometimes we know,... Continue Reading