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The following are lectures and conferences that grow out of the commitment to exploring the nexus of faith, vocation & culture that is the heart of The Washington Institute.
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Mar 24-25 "Psalms As the Prayerbook for Israel---And For Us Today," with Dr. James Houston
Location TBD
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Apr 20-21
"The Gospel & Globalization," with Dr. Os Guinness
Location TBD
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Jul 3-5
Jonathan Edwards Institute
Their 2006 annual conference will be held at the Loew’s Annapolis Hotel, July 3-5 . The conference theme is “Citizens of Heaven, Sojourners on Earth: Civic Life in Gospel Perspective.” Confirmed speakers are Os Guinness, Frank Young, Ron Sider, Michael Cromartie, and Ken Myers. Philip Yancey is also a possibility.
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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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"...Vocation is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet..."
Frederick Buechner
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