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January 2016
January 06, 2016
The way the world’s supposed to be. Is there a world like that? Do we...
November 2015
November 25, 2015
Neighbors by choice. There is nothing magic about it, though I am sure there are...
November 04, 2015
The most beautiful, and the most broken, all together— making sense of both is the...
October 2015
October 28, 2015
What makes good work good? A lot could be said, and has. But it’s a...
October 21, 2015
Conversations with consequences. A few weeks ago I was staying up on Lookout Mountain, a rangy...
September 2015
September 30, 2015
“When we describe, we do so as active agents whose intentions and moral character pervade...
September 23, 2015
It was a Donegal year.Before 1972 I’m sure that I never heard the name, but...
September 09, 2015
A prayer for labor, for the loves and the longings woven into the very work...
September 02, 2015
“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We...
August 2015
August 26, 2015
Sadness and joy. Sometimes we read something, and it simply jumps off of the page....
August 20, 2015
Some evenings simply mean more. Like one from a few weeks ago when Meg and...
August 12, 2015
Over the shoulder, through the heart. For most of my life I have thought about the...
August 05, 2015
“It would’ve been easier to join the garden club.” Not that she has anything against...
March 2015
March 15, 2015
Is it possible to have contemplative lives amidst the crowds, in the middle of the...
March 04, 2015
This excerpt from Steve Garber’s book Visions of Vocation is reprinted here with the kind permission...
October 2014
October 02, 2014
Originally published at the Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation, and Culture. “What is the common...
September 2014
September 23, 2014
Conceptual congruity. Recently I spent a couple hours in a Google Hangout with several people...
August 2014
August 17, 2014
Remember your Creator during your youth: when all possibilities lie open before you and you...
August 05, 2014
“We are not great shots across the bow of history; rather by simple grace, we...
July 2014
July 29, 2014
Recently some members of the Patheos Faith and Work Channel staff attended the Washington Institute's...
July 19, 2014
“I’ve come to believe that war, as terrible as it is, is very clarifying for...
July 15, 2014
Further up and further in. Recently I spent several hours with a learning cohort of...
July 03, 2014
“Altogether, the Old Bailey, at that date, was a choice illustration of the precept, that...
June 2014
June 29, 2014
Washington DC is a strange and wonderful place. For years I have seen it...
June 24, 2014
Common grace for the common good. Recently I gave the commencement address at Covenant Theological...
June 14, 2014
From: Deanna Subject: "Work" versus a paying Job I am always busy doing something. It...
June 11, 2014
(Originally posted January 2014) Even Charlie Peacock needs a muse, the artist’s artist that he...
June 04, 2014
(Originally posted December 2013) Lewis and Clark. An expedition but also a college, and yesterday...
June 01, 2014
(Originally published in May 2014.) Integral, not incidental. I think most of us want coherent...
May 2014
May 28, 2014
I do love a good story. And it’s not always apparent on the first page....
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