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
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
Vocation • Visions of Vocation Making Peace with Proximate Justice Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read The question of my life. While I have spent years thinking about life in the world with my laptop open before me, this past year has been one in which... Continue Reading
Vocation • Visions of Vocation The Task of Translation Dr. Steven Garber | 5 min read Tacos and tortillas are easy. And adios is like that. But what about las golondrinas? and Sacramento? Having grown up in California, I began to learn Spanish in the second... Continue Reading
