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Bearings Online Articles on Vocation

  • Called to Life: Vocation Stories about Identity

    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

    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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  • Called to Life: Vocation Stories about Belonging

    Called to Life: Vocation Stories about Belonging

    "I watched the glowing lantern glide up toward the spark of Orion’s stars, just barely aware that, within me, a new spark was growing, too."

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  • Called to Life: Vocation Stories about Food and Belonging

    Called to Life: Vocation Stories about Food and Belonging

    What food traditions bring you life? Our connections with others, both family and friends, call us to love and belonging.

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  • Running the Race

    Running the Race

    As we "run the race" to win, as Paul encouraged the Corinthians, what "deliberate practice" will help shape us as Christian disciples?

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  • Jesus and the Good Citizen

    Jesus and the Good Citizen

    Encounter by encounter, the Gospels contrast the power of God in Christ to the destructive force of the systems and authorities that kept Galilee and Judea in thrall to Roman rule.

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  • Make Honey While the Sun Shines: Beekeeping in God’s Time

    Make Honey While the Sun Shines: Beekeeping in God's Time

    The bees taught me a new way to be in time. I knew how to march in time, but the honeybees showed me how to dance to the rhythms of nature in the city.

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  • Leading Lives That Matter, Second Edition

    Leading Lives That Matter, Second Edition

    In a revision of their book, "Leading Lives that Matter," Dorothy Bass and Mark Schwehn provide new perspectives as they ask: What should we do and who should we be?

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  • Following God’s Call to Survive

    Following God's Call to Survive

    Patrick Reyes encourages us "to do ministry as my grandma did: in the midst of deep suffering and pain, an abundance of love and healing."

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  • When Purpose Isn’t Enough

    When Purpose Isn't Enough

    The language of purpose will only take us so far; we need something more to embrace the sacrifices we cannot avoid at this time. 

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