If the purpose of all vocations is to love and serve the particular neighbor that vocation brings into your life, what do you do when you don’t really love that neighbor? (George Marquart raised this question in his comment on the article.) I’ll take a
The nature of the pastoral office and how that fits with the priesthood of all believers has vexed many Christians, especially Lutherans, for whom it has become a divisive issue. What do you think about this line of thinking, drawing from my essay on vocation?
Is there anything about vocation that my article either leaves out or gets wrong?
Fitting in with my vast conspiracy to take over the secular holiday of “Labor Day” and turn it into a Christian holiday celebrating Vocation, I was asked to write about the subject for a special Labor Day issue of World Magazine . I believe full access is
This is normally a weekday blog, but to celebrate Vocation Day weekend–which some call Labor Day weekend–we are going to do something a little different. On Saturday, I am going to put up a long post reflecting my latest study of this important but oft-neglected
In the course of our discussion of Glenn Beck, Mormonism, and civil religion, Another Kerner raised a question that is worth our consideration: A sincere question or two may be called for here: What groups and/or events, of a semi-political or political nature may Christians
According to the Huffington Post, so many conservatives are embracing gay marriage that many Democrats are worried that their issue is being taken away from them: The notion that the gay rights community would abandon the Obama White House over its unwillingness to fully embrace
Texas cuisine. . . . The beer is placed inside a pocket of salty, pretzel-like dough and then dunked in oil at 375 degrees for about 20 seconds, a short enough time for the confection to remain alcoholic. When diners take a bite the hot
Here is a discussion of the Glenn Beck rally–what it means and what it achieves–from Mormon official Greg West: I believe that Glenn Beck’s desire, in some measure, was to create a “King Benjamin moment.” The Book of Mormon relates a landmark gathering of some
James Lee broke into the headquarters of the Discovery Channel just outside of Washington, D.C. yesterday, wearing bombs strapped to his body. He took three hostages. He was killed by police. He was demanding that the nature channel change its programming. Here are excerpts from
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