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Gender and Calling: A few thoughts
Yesterday I wandered around in the not-all-that-brilliant observation that I can’t really get a grasp on my own calling (what I’m supposed to be doing on this planet, my personal mission statement, whatever you want to call it) without viewing that very question from within the complex network of relationships that surround my life. We…
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Calling within community
This isn’t going to be rocket science, folks, but I’ve been chewing on this lately so let me throw a couple thoughts at you. Within the overused phrase “it takes a village” nestles a vital truth: We aren’t on this planet to live life alone, or for ourselves individually. Our existence, and our understanding of…
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Less about making money, more about the mission
On the surface, this is an article about changes in business. But really, it's a good read about the rising value of purpose over production or profit. I recommend. It provokes thought about calling, vocation, mission–regardless of your industry or profession. Generation Flux's Secret Weapon | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
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Want to discuss education?
This is a small plug for a site where I and a few friends chip away at the ideas behind “teaching redemptively” — applying the Gospel to the structures of education, not just the words used in the classroom or censoring textbooks or any number of surface-level attempts at biblical worldview integration. The title of the…
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Yeah, shouldn’t we be working <40 hrs/wk now?
Cory Doctorow blogged about this article on Monday, and it seriously caught my attention. The original author, David Cain, wrote an essay after returning from 9 months backpacking and traveling. He’d realized that his return to North America immediately dumped him back into the frantic, frazzled life of a consumer. Though he was “richer,” life…
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