Well-Said Quotables
“[Vocation] comes from a voice in here calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God.”
Parker Palmer
Let Your Life Speak
Author, Educator, and Activist
Tag Archives: Self-Serving
Missio on Genesis 11: Our “Excessive Selfness”
Near my desk at work is a TV hanging from the ceiling, playing the news. The voices of our candidates, our news reporters, our First Lady, blare all day long. Today, during a commercial break, I heard “Learn languages online! … more
Posted in Biblical Reflections, Genesis 11, New Site: Vocation, On Daily Work *New, On Vocation
Tagged Babbel, Babel, C.S. Lewis, Dan Allender, Genesis 11, Pride, Public Relations, Self-Serving, Work
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Missio on Gen. 11: Bible, Babble, and Babel
It’s hard not to feel like I live in Babylon, a city of spiraling success and ever-increasing reach. The Bible’s popular etymology for the name is bluntly mocking: “Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And … more
Posted in Biblical Reflections, Genesis 11, On Vocation
Tagged Babel, Babylon, Brand, City, Genesis 11, Name, Reputation, Self-Serving
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Serving as Mary, Serving as Martha
The story of Martha and Mary is familiar to most people who have grown up in the church. I am well versed in it, but this narrative does have a slightly different and deeper meaning now that I am working, more … more
Posted in Biblical Reflections, Luke 10, On Vocation
Tagged Dwell, Martha and Mary, Self-Serving, Service, Work
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