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• Black America, ‘We’ve got no time for excuses’

  
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  President Obama, on Sunday, delivered a touching autobiographic commencement address at Morehouse College, an all-male historically black college that is also the alma mater of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, that will likely bother many progressives. Read more on Black America, ‘We’ve got no time for ...
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• Spiritual Mothers and Old Maids

  
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  There was some quiet chuckling in the monastery at some alleged remarks of Pope Francis which you can read here: http://bit.ly/14bxA73. The chances are that the pope has been quoted slightly out of context or mistranslated (some things sound fine (…) Read the rest of this entry »
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• National Poetry Month – Post #9: “The Observer”

  
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  Greetings Bloginistas! My ninth National Poetry Month post is an original poem I wrote about myself and my writing as a companion to the poem “The Maker” from National Poetry Month – Post #8 …Enjoy! The Observer His eyes collect each thing he sees, until vision becomes hoard and must be organized or it ...
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• Learning to Focus on Whats Most Important

  
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  The older we get the more motivation we should have to focus on doing a few things well, instead of doing many things with mediocrity. My brother and I were having a conversation the other day and we realized that, for most of our lives, we have tried to do a lot of different things. The result is... [[ This is a ...
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• For All That I Am, Lord

  
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  Written at the Collegeville Institute as our prayer to describe where the spirit is moving in our communities with regards to their own vocation: Thank you God for calling me into this place For the courage to be who you have made me to be For the gifts I have that have gotten me to answer this call For the strength ...
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• Six Ideas on How to Lead Congregations to Integrate Work and Discipleship

  
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  The High Calling : Six Ideas on How to Lead Congregations to Integrate Work and Discipleship “How can we create a congregation where work and discipleship are truly integrated?” This is a question I am hearing more often, even though much has been written about a theology of work in recent years. Pastors and ...
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• To Find the Sunrise Amidst the Rain

  
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  So I just spent two glorious days at the Collegeville Institute in Minnesota , which is one of my all time favorite places. Whether the lovely setting, the St. John’s Abbey , the St. John’s Bible , the amazing people who work there and the groups they gathered to talk about Vocation in Communities , I ...
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• Should I Get a Degree in Music? (Part 1): Introduction

  
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  Sonata for single violin #1 in G minor BWV 1001, Johann Sebastian Bach, front page of the autograph. Picture from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BWV1001-cropped.jpg . In response to the question of vocational formation/next steps offered by Kate Peterson in  PhD or No PhD. That is the Question.  (ESN Blog. ...
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• Go Out Into the World

  
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  In the late afternoon today, I’ll leave St. Benedict’s Monastery, where I’ve been for ten days, finishing up my conversion book. The time here has been, not only productive, but refreshing. Since the time I was a Buddhist nun living in monasteries and retreat centers in Nepal and India, there has always been ...
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• Thank you. You can rest Dallas Willard.

  
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  Dallas WIllard. Photo from InterVarsity alumni – Dallas Willard (Gordon Govier. 5/14/2009, http://www.intervarsity.org/news/intervarsity-alumni–dallas-willard ). I write after a good cry. Dallas Willard died this morning after announcing stage 4 cancer on Monday. You can read more  here . For those who ...
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• Cultivating a culture of call

  
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  The following post comes from Bill Wilson, president of the Center for Congregational Health . Nearly all observers of the 21 st century church in America agree that the next generation of leadership is a cause for concern. Many write, blog, tweet and generally lament the state of leadership cultivation and ...
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• The Responsibility of the Christian Writer

  
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  As an apologist and academic who works in the field of imaginative and literary apologetics, and as a working poet, I often think about what it means to be a Christian writer. I believe it’s a serious vocation; writing is a gift and a calling, and it can be a form of ministry — but often not in quite the way that ...
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• Following Jesus in the “Real World”

  
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  Wrestling with vocation and our call to follow Jesus in the “Real World”? Let’s have a conversation . . . The contributors to  Faithful is Successful, Notes to a Driven Pilgrim  are very much interested in feedback from and interaction with Emerging Scholars. That’s why they’re sharing their material ...
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• Learning to Mother

  
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  On a recent Friday, my 9-year-old stepson was home from school while both my husband and I were working in the home office. Between running reports and sending emails, I made toast and baked potatoes, refilling his water bottle with Sprite. “I thought you were supposed to be working,” he said, as I made his ...
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• Journalism & vocation

  
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  Mollie Hemingway, who shamed the mainstream press into covering the Kermit Gosnell abortion mill murder trial, is getting attention for how she pulled that off.  I appreciate her plug for vocation and how that doctrine informs her pursuit of journalism. From LCMS media critic helps spotlight lack of abortion trial ...
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• “Radical,” “missional” Christianity as the new legalism

  
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  The esteemed Anthony Bradley describes a “new legalism” stemming from the vogue of so-called “radical” and “missional” Christianity.  He decries the emphasis on spectacular works, emphasizing instead the role of  good works in the realm of the “ordinary.”  That is, the love of neighbor as carried ...
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• The Benefits of Servant Leadership

  
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  Harvard Business Schools "Working Knowledge" has a post, Why Isn’t ‘Servant Leadership’ More Prevalent? , which is a bit strange because the article never addresses the question. However, I did think this was interesting: Now it appears that a group of organizational psychologists, led by Adam Grant, are ...
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• I’d rather be a godly administrator than an ungodly minister

  
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  You spend your week filing papers, printing reports, chasing up bad debts, putting stamps on envelopes. Then you go to church on Sunday and you see a man leading hundreds in worship and prayer, and preaching inspiring sermons. It’s pretty obvious who’s pleasing God most isn’t it? Is it? Not so fast. God looks ...
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• PhD or No PhD. That is the Question.

  
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  Discerning next steps in the ‘academic chain of being.’ Although Kate’s a professor in the Humanities and as such adds to the archive of material addressing  Why Get a PhD in the Humanities? , she also opens up the question to PhD or No PhD?  In response to her excellent post, I desire to take ...
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• O, Death. If You See Me Coming, You Better Run.

  
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  Bluebird Blvd. - Because bluebirds are so damn happy. Supposedly.             But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal ...
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