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Bearings Online Articles on Vocation

The Problem with Angels: Confronting Racism in Hospice Care
Zeena Regis tells the story of how racism complicates her experience as a hospice chaplain, and contemplates how to challenge that racism like one of the fearsome, truth-telling angels of Scripture.
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Husband, Father, and Living a “Religious Life”?
When I one day meet God face-to-face, will I be able to look him in the eye and say, “I heard your call. I heeded you”?
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All is Possible
Meet former Resident Scholar Eric LeCompte, who leads the nonprofit Jubilee USA and addresses economic inequality on a global scale through debt forgiveness.
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A Problem with Vocation
Mark R. Schwehn's essay considers how Christian colleges can prepare students for a lifetime of vocational choices.
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Language to Get Us Through Covid-19
Lockdown in NYC upended Plymouth Church's immersive vocation project, but they adapted and found new language relevant to the crisis.
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Bony Labyrinth
Julie L. Moore's poem explores the dizzying experience of walking into teaching as a white professor in an Historically Black University.
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The Devil Advises Me and Other Young White Clergy
Tweak your sermon. Update the church website. Dust your divinity school diploma. Do more self-care. And most of all, get serious.
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Come as You Are
Working with an injured horse feels to Karen Guzman like prayer. God receives us, with our traumas and weaknesses and wariness, and gently guides us to realize our full potential.
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Called to Life: Vocation Stories about Identity
Going to the source, hearing an authority speak our truth, finding our place in one stop on our vocational journey-- all these speak to who we are.
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What Dance in Church Could Do for Women
"My skill as a dancer began to fuse with my faith ... until the administration told us it was distracting and we needed to go behind the stage curtain."
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