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Delicious Sabbath: From Obligation to Invitation
My family, all six of us–Tara, Liam, Iona, Karis, Maira, and me–just returned from vacation. Whether you’ve already had yours or the last weeks of August still hold its’ promise, I hope you have or...
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Place and the Faithful Life
The call to be a good neighbor exists as a central part of Christian vocation. A simple observation is that the form of our neighborliness is influenced by the form of our neighborhood. Different...
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The Fabric of Faithfulness: Practices of a Sustained Faith
As fall falls upon us, for those who follow football there is daily speculation about the Heisman Trophy winner for 2012. Who will it be? A long favorite from Kansas State or Notre Dame, or perhaps an...
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Gifts and Griefs
All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have their common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. -Cormac McCarthy, The Road And this will be a sign for you:...
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When Joy Rises
Epiphany begins with speaking God’s name, Immanuel, “God with us,” in its fullness. For it is when the savoir has come. The king of the universe doesn’t sit on a throne, but lays in the poverty and...
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The Most Difficult Task
Now that I’ve met you / would you object to / never seeing each other again / cause I can’t afford to / climb aboard you / no one’s got that much ego to spend –Aimee Mann, “Magnolia” There are days we...
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Reading and Resurrection
Poland, 1984. “Christ is risen!” As the cry went out, the crowd of mostly Catholic trade unionists shouted back with confidence “He is risen indeed!” Not unusual for a resurrection service, the cadence...
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The Myth of Balance
Several months ago I was invited to lead a breakout seminar at a conference on calling and the common good, offering some reflections about what it looks like to take up calling across all of life,...
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A School for Inner City Shalom
Bentley Craft drives forty minutes to work in a Mercedes station wagon, listening to NPR or humming along to sacred medieval music. His tortoise shell glasses match his brown goatee, and he always...
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Fidelity: To abide, to belong
“…what fidelity is meant to protect is the possibility of moments when what we have chosen and what we desire are the same.” -Wendell Berry, The Body and The Earth June seems an optimal time to talk...
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Theology of Vocation and Spiritual Formation
Editor’s Note: The following is the edited transcription of a talk given to participants of the TWI Come and See Vocation Conference July 16-17 2013 in Washington, DC. Jesus came into the deep...
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Friendship Still Isn’t Second-Best
Worldview. A way of making sense of everything. As 17 year-old I was drawn in, but I had no idea what it would mean. Over the next few years I began to listen and learn, and was sure that I wanted my...
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Love, Liturgy and the Architecture of Time
My conversion was sudden, but not altogether surprising. The efforts of friends to evangelize me had planted seeds, kindling questions demanding answers. “Could I really trust this?” “Would it really...
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In Search of Deep Faith
“A Pilgrim’s Progress for the 21st-Century?” I wrote that this summer after reading the manuscript of In Search of Deep Faith: A Pilgrimage into the Beauty Goodness and Heart of Christianity by Jim...
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The Child who would be King: Reflections on Art and Beauty
“Concepts create idols; wonder understands anything” -St. Gregory of Nyssa By nature mankind creates; it is in our DNA. Being made in the Image of God, men and women are compulsive makers of things. If...
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For the Sake of the World: A Lenten Meditation
“Is it possible to live in Washington DC, and have a contemplative life?” Some years ago now I was asked that question by an organization here that is committed to addressing a very complex social...
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Easter Vocation: I Have Seen the Lord
What do you do when your dreams die? The very dreams that have been shaped by your glimpses of God and of life abundant, the dreams that have given meaning and purpose to your identity—what do you do...
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Remembering the Ascension
Easter without Ascension is like Advent without Christmas. The comparison is inexact; unlike Advent, Easter is not a time of preparation. However, just as Christmas is the culminating event...
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Pentecost and Christian Vocation in the Twenty-First Century
Dr. Amos Yong provided this reflection on Pentecost for our June 2014 TWI Newsletter. You can sign up to regularly receive our monthly newsletter here. Life and work in the twenty-first century is more...
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Faith, Art, and Vocation: An Interview with Nate Risdon
Editor’s Note: The Washington Institute had the opportunity to ask Nate Risdon, Associate Director of the Brehm Center at Fuller Theological Seminary, a few questions about faith, art, and vocation....
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