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Servant Leadership Journal
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 Ray Blunt
It is in the answers to these three questions, lived out every day, which you are laying pipe for what you will leave behind—what remains. Because I can tell you your career and your time in leadership, indeed your life will go surprisingly quickly. ...MORE»
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by Ray Blunt
The words may differ, but the angst is very similar:
I know I’m not doing what God has created me to do, but I cannot figure out what that is supposed to be. I have a good job, but I don’t really love it most of the time and I feel I need to make a change. However, I’m afraid either I may never find out what I’m supposed to do until too late and by then my life will have been wasted or I’ll make a change and blow it again. How can I know what vocation He has prepared for me? Am I doing something wrong? Perhaps some of this strikes a cord with you. If so, let’s discuss it a bit...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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"...Vocation is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet..."
Frederick Buechner
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