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Bearings Online Articles on Vocation

Essential Workers, Insufficient Funds
Those working in retail, the food industry, childcare, and eldercare are essential workers and deserve a living wage for the essential service and hard work they provide.
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Called to the Radical Welcome of God
My defiant search for a church finally led me to places that expect Pride Sunday every Sunday.
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Green and Navy Argyle Socks
Often it is the stories we hear in living rooms of our childhood that inspire us to tell our own, or others' stories to bring life to the community.
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Listening for Our Call on the Threshold
For churches and people of faith, now is the time to connect with our deepest callings and see how we want to move forward "prayerfully, joyfully, and lovingly participating in creation."
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A God Who Cleaves: Coming Out, Parents, and Queerness
"After college, I began to discover new tools for interpreting the Bible that allowed me, for the first time, to imagine myself as a whole person within my faith."
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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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