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by Steve Garber
Director, The Washington Institute
We call them Vocare evenings. Month by month we invite people for a meal, sometimes in a home, sometimes in a restaurant or club, for “conversations about calling.” The themes have ranged across the spectrum of human responsibilities and relationships: human rights, the new urbanism, medicine and healthcare, the arts, business, congregational life and the vocation of pastor, national security, law, and reflection on a recent film and its meaning for life in the world...MORE» |
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by Steve Garber
Director, The Washington Institute
The Fabric of Faithfulness was first published in 1997, and over the years has had many printings. This last year a decision was made to offer it in an expanded edition, and so I spent some time working at the manuscript again. As I read through its pages and paragraphs, I was intrigued by what I had written, now so long ago! Sometimes I was surprised, sometimes I was pleased. On both sides, I responded with, “I wrote that!?” But knowing that people all over the world were still reading it, and learning from it, I decided to try it again....MORE» |
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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»
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by Steve Garber
Director, The Washington Institute
Several years ago I joined a small table of folk for a conversation about the relation of the church’s ministry to the callings of God’s people. While wide-ranging, we eventually got to this issue: 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 Steve Garber
Director, The Washington Institute
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....The Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation, and Culture exists to offer another vision of vocation, one situated within the meaning of historic Christian orthodoxy and at the same time within the push-and-shove of the early 21st-century with all of its wonders and worries...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 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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