Career and Calling, For Better and Worse
Chad Eggleston and Mandy McMichael consider the challenges and unexpected blessings of marriage between academics.
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Vocation and Cultural Capital
The doctrine of vocation, emerging from Martin Luther’s theological genius and taken up by the other Reformers (and handed down to us today) has functioned to bring about the sanctification of ordinary life as Charles Taylor as others have rightfully noticed.[1] Where there was once a hierarchy in which churchly vocations (e.g., monks, priests) were […]
Graced Occasions: An Interview with Ron Hansen
Ron Hansen’s fiction is tight and rich. Each of Hansen’s writings carries a certain arc: the plains of the American West, the sanctuary of a hushed convent, and the frenzied deck of theDeutschland are both terse and beautiful, places where redemption is particularly fitted to each character’s peculiar, compelling humanity. In this interview, Hansen talks […]
Finding Our Own Calcutta: Mother Teresa and the Infinite God Dying of Love
What could a worldly professor learn from a saint about dying as a means of living out a calling in Christ?