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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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by Steve Garber
Director, The Washington Institute
Not a week goes by when I am not drawn into commenting on the sexualizing of American culture. Sometimes this happens in a very tender conversation over a cup of tea, listening to the tears of someone’s heart as they tell a tale of hope and sorrow, of yearning and grief. Sometimes it is in a much more public place like a classroom where the intimacy is gone, but the issues are just as live and have far-reaching consequence...MORE»
 RELATED DISCUSSION: Reflections from Two Who Were There »
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by Steve Garber
Director, The Washington Institute
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?...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...MORE»
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by Steve Garber
Director, The Washington Institute
Only connect. Almost one hundred years ago E. M. Forester began his novel, Howard’s End, with these two words. Seeing into the mixed blessing of an industrializing world, with remarkable intuitive insight he offers a story of a businessman who lives a painfully compartmentalized life.?...MORE»
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by Steve Garber
Director, The Washington Institute
For people who care about America and its history—past, present, and future -- the stakes are not small, for the church and for the culture. It is for this reason that The Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation, and Culture has come into being. With a vision that is at the same time very local and embodied, and very national and international, we are 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. We believe it is a strategic place to begin— seeking the renewal of our common life as we do so...MORE»
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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 Ray Blunt
Associate Director and Teaching Fellow,
The Washington Institute
Senior Consultant,
Leadership Institute at the National Center for Leadership
Leadership,  even godly leadership, is not
the sole province of the individual, but the outcomes are often shaped as much by those who advise, support,
encourage, and come alongside a leader. It is within a network of relationships or of a like-minded community
that the great movements of change occur. Those with
whom leaders surround themselves, their choice of companions
on the journey, help to make them who they
are and determine what they can achieve. These colleagues
also help to further shape and to sustain a transforming
vision over time and bring it to reality. We have
looked at the role of early mentors in shaping the commitments
of Jefferson and Wilberforce; we now turn to
examine how those around them later in life helped to
sustain their purposes...MORE»
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by Ray Blunt
Associate Director and Teaching Fellow,
The Washington Institute
Senior Consultant, Leadership Institute at the National Center for Leadership
Exploring three “courses” essential to learning to lead—reflective work that results in a guiding life worldview and purpose; learning from the life and experiences of mentors; and being part of a community of practice that learns together and holds each other accountable...MORE»
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by Dan Haseltine
Jars of Clay
Blood Water Mission
I have no sense of exactly when I first became aware that deep within my soul, or more precise, deep within my gut, an ache and a restlessness, a physical response to things not right in the world, had grown. I had a revelation that once I was just an innocent bystander but I had been chosen to become owner or steward of pain and suffering that I only just observed in the lives of other people...MORE»
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by Charlie Lowell
Keyboardist, Jars of Clay
Co-Founder, Blood Water Mission
Somehow, I grew up with this notion that our lives are compartmentalized- that there are times for celebration, times to mourn, times to be quiet, and maybe a little time to be boisterous. Call it an Ecclesiastical view of life. This is true to an extent, but I feel I took it a little too far- Church was for Sunday and maybe Wednesday night, school is for studying and socializing, etc. And I think, like most teenagers, my world was pretty small and self-centered. My faith didn't really permeate each aspect of my life...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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