A number of companies in the United States and other countries are providing chaplains for their employees.
Is that an appropriate application of vocation, or a confusion of vocation? I’m not sure myself!
Read about this phenomenon after the jump.
A number of companies in the United States and other countries are providing chaplains for their employees.
Is that an appropriate application of vocation, or a confusion of vocation? I’m not sure myself!
Read about this phenomenon after the jump.
Last Fall, as some of you will remember, I spent a couple of weeks on a speaking tour of Scandinavia. (See the series of posts including this one and this one and this one and this one and this one and this one.) I was invited back. Tomorrow I catch a plane to Denmark, where I will be giving a series of lectures at a big Inner Mission conference. So I’m excited about that.
Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. I love the rite of the imposition of ashes, when the pastor marks our foreheads with the sign of the cross made in ashes, with the words “You are dust, and to dust you shall return.” We need to remember that fact.
But what I want to post for the occasion is a classic piece by Rev. William Cwirla from a few years ago, on “Why We Don’t Do Ashes on Ash Wednesday.” It’s not what you might expect. It’s a different kind of remembrance of death, and a reflection on the pastor’s vocation. He even goes deeper into the symbolism in a way that will help those who do “do ashes on Ash Wednesday.”
UPDATE: Don’t get me wrong. Most of us Lutherans do impose ashes. See this rejoinder to Rev. Cwirla’s piece from Rev. David Petersen, via Trent David.
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Evangelical pastor Rob Schenck criticizes his fellow conservative Christians for being knee-jerk 2nd Amendment supporters, arguing that it is impossible to be both pro-life and pro-gun. A Lutheran police officer, Joseph Klotz, answers those arguments, concluding that the missing piece of the puzzle is vocation. (more…)
Like Trump and Cruz, Marco Rubio is talking about his faith. After the jump, see his response to an atheist and his campaign commercial that includes talk about accepting the free gift of salvation offered by Jesus Christ.”
Does he go too far in mingling Christianity and politics? What differences do you see between these three presidential candidates in the way they relate their faith to their politics? My observations after the jump. (more…)
Donald Trump is calling himself an “evangelical.” Christian columnist Michael Gerson discusses that self-identification, in the course of which he tells a great anecdote relating to (a misunderstanding of) vocation. (more…)
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