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by Steve Garber
Director, The Washington Institute
Why is it that some people see themselves as implicated in the way the world is, and isn’t? in the way things are, and ought to be? There is nothing in the record deal signed by the Jars of Clay that requires them to care about the complexities of Africa, particularly about the structural problems that are horribly difficult and so very long-term. There are no cheap fixes. Only deep commitment, a sense of responsibility marked by love, will do...MORE >>
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by Steve Garber
A few years ago a pastor in the city asked if I would meet someone in his congregation whose work was in the world of national security. A senior official with complex responsibilities, he knew that his deepening faith required him to “think Christianly” about his life and labour, but he did not know where to begin.
by Kate Harris
In Washington DC, it is only a matter of time before the kind woman standing next to me at a cocktail party will turn from talking with my husband and ask the inevitable, identity-testing, status-gauging question I have come to dread as a new and mostly stay-at-home mother…“And what do you do?”
by Ray Blunt
Martin Luther doesn’t make many appearances in the pages of the numerous leadership tomes that reach bookstore shelves each year...but what not many may know is that those in public service owe him a large debt of gratitude because he introduced the idea that a calling (i.e. a vocation) is of critical importance in secular life. More »
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Why is it that when we pray together as the people of God gathered for worship on Sunday, we regularly pray for our missionaries in Kenya and Kazakhstan, but not for our attorneys on K Street? |
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With a vision that is at the same time very local and embodied, and very national and international, The Washington Institute is a network of men and women who are learning about the meaning of vocation, of what it means to hear God as he calls people to care for the world in his name. |
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"...Everything done in the world is done by hope..."
Martin Luther
German pastor
16th-century
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