Conceptual congruity. Recently I spent a couple hours in a Google Hangout with several people in Chicago, taking part in a dissertation proposal meeting, hoping on hope that one day a PhD will be granted for the completion of good work well done. I was asked to participate because the student has drawn on ideas I have written about; simply said, the focus of her work for the degree has been the focus of my work. At one point, her... Read more
We’ve found another great review of Visions of Vocation courtesy of the “Bob on Books” blog maintained by Robert C. Trube. We don’t know Bob, but he has this to say about himself: My life’s passion has been to connect the love of learning and the love of God and I have focused my work in the arena of higher education….. While I am a person of faith as a follower of Christ, I hope the blog will be a meeting... Read more
Originally posted in August 2014. I still remember the day when I first saw that there were identifiable habits of heart that marked people who kept at it, who over time sustained their deepest convictions about life and the world as they lived in the world. Over several years I had been listening to people who were beyond “the valley of the diapers,” and who hadn’t given up what they once had seen as “most important,” but rather had deepened... Read more
“Come and see!” It seems that all week I have been thinking about those words. For a few days I heard them from my granddaughter Magdalena, her three-year old self eager to have the adults in her little world “come and see” what she was doing. One morning she and I spent an hour or so swimming, and she moved from gingerly stepping into the pool with her water-wings, to holding onto the edge of the pool as she jumped... Read more
“You can get all A’s and still flunk life.” Most weeks I have reason to remember these wise words from Walker Percy; they are a warning lurking around the corner of everyone’s heart. And this week is no exception, especially because it was in the mountains of North Carolina that they came to life in his novel, The Second Coming. A native son of the South, Percy experienced the worst traumas that human beings know, and still lived. After the severe... Read more
Many of you already know of Byron Borger’s brilliant book review blog, Hearts and Minds Booknotes. It’s part of a truly different Christian bookstore, Hearts and Minds, which tries to serve serious readers and serious Christians: Welcome to a bookstore which attempts to create a new space for serious, reflective readers. Unabashedly Christian, we are often told that we are different than most religious bookstores. Our name, we trust, gives a good first clue to what we are about. What distinguishes... Read more
Kate Fowler Harris, executive director of the Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation, and Culture, has recently released a new book in Barna’s “Frames” series about modern women trying to balance faith, career, and family: “You can be anything you want, child.” It’s a message of empowerment and it’s beautiful. But, as many of those young girls grew up, a message that was once meant to convey opportunity has begun to feel like a pressure cooker. What once was “You can... Read more
We’re always happy to run into evidence that people are reading and enjoying Steve Garber’s Visions of Vocation. Here’s a recent sampling: Ken Camp, The Baptist Standard: “Garber challenges Christians to embrace realism and “make peace with the proximate,” even while working toward elusive goals. We cannot do everything or achieve all we might desire, but we can do something and achieve some measure of success. And in the striving, God’s people find fulfillment.” Doug Smith, DougSmithLive.com: “As soon as I started... Read more
Remember your Creator during your youth: when all possibilities lie open before you and you can offer all your strength intact for his service. The time to remember is not after you become senile and paralyzed! Then it is not too late for your salvation, but too late for you to serve as the presence of God in the midst of the world and the creation. You must make take sides earlier—when you can actually make choices, when you have... Read more
…developed by the Marketplace Institute of Regent College in association with the Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation, and Culture. ReFrame is a group discipleship resource that explores the biblical narrative and how Christ reframes our lives and our world. Watch a preview below, and go to this link to order and to get more details. Awesome speakers and thoughtful content! Read more
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