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
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
