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Special Ops

Lately it seems that every time I turn around I’m somewhere I don’t fit in. I keep listening to the voice inside my head that I’ve come to know and love as God’s, and it keeps leading me to the strangest places. I’m studying things deeply that I never thought I’d have any interest in—andContinue reading “Special Ops”

Man Turned in on Himself, Excerpt 15

Vocation Vocation, from the Latin vocatio, can mean several things: “the proclamation of the gospel, through which human beings are called to be children of God,” the call to the divine office of teaching and preaching, and the work each one of us is called to do in our daily lives. Luther emphasizes this thirdContinue reading “Man Turned in on Himself, Excerpt 15”

How do we hear His call?

By the weekend the 5:45 workshop options had multiplied. I chose “God at work in us: how do we hear His call?” and found myself in a large room filled almost entirely with twenty-somethings. Was the question of vocation simply more relevant to the young, or was it that older people had stopped asking questionsContinue reading “How do we hear His call?”