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Echoes
The Washington Institute seeks to provide an array of resources to help nurture thinking about the wider world and and the joyful responsibility that is ours to history and to the world as we explore our common life together.
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I suppose it is true for all of us: every-once-in-awhile we meet someone that we wish we could spend much more time with than seems possible. That happened to me a few years ago on a visit to LA, where with a handful of friends from Washington I spent two days with a wide circle of folk whose vocations are in the TV and film industry. On the grounds of Fox Studios we watched a film not-yet-released, “Because of Winn-Dixie,” in the company of Walden Media’s president, Micheal Flaherty—an intriguing man, bright-as-a-button and yet remarkably playful too, and in and through it all, a true Irish wit.....MORE»
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Infuze Magazine
You can tell when you encounter an artist that weaves the four elements into their work, into their faith. It is seamless. They cannot help but create work that serves God and neighbor; it is simply overflowing into their work....MORE»
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by Bo Bartholomew
When people hear my story I am often asked, “How did you go from seminary to business?” While at Regent I studied the original language for the word “ministry” which comes from the root word for “service.” In a very real sense all of us in this room perform a service, a ministry, in the marketplace everyday. During the medieval ages, the church reversed the meanings of the words ‘cleros’ meaning clergy and ‘ laos’ for laity. It is the laity that is called to minister and the clergy that is called to shepherd those who minister both to and in the world...MORE»
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by Andi Ashworth
Art House Ministry
One thing I know for sure as I approach my 50th year: Understanding one’s calling is an ongoing process of discovery, and calling doesn’t have to be limited to one area. I continue to find new aspects of calling announcing themselves in different chapters of our lives, and I don’t suppose the revelation is over yet.
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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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