Vocation • Visions of Vocation Discernment and Desire Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read Would you help us think about the vocation of pastor in this contemporary cultural moment? What is our work in the social and political milieu of 2022? Several months ago... Continue Reading
Vocation • Visions of Vocation Mentoring a Georgian-era Daniel: John Newton and William Wilberforce Karen J. Ristuccia | 14 min read Resolved once again about Mr N. . . . It may do good, he will pray for me; his experience may enable him to direct me to new grounds of... Continue Reading
Vocation • Visions of Vocation A Signpost of What Someday Will Be: Remembering Tim Russell Dr. Steven Garber | 7 min read “I’m still angry, and I’m going to be.” A few years ago I spent several days in Memphis, Tennessee, speaking on vocation as “common grace for the common good.” Believing... Continue Reading
Vocation • Visions of Vocation On Films and Food, and More Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read What does food mean, anyway? And why do we eat? For years I have been drawn into the profoundly-formed vision of Alexander Schmemann, even beginning courses on vocation by asking... Continue Reading
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
