vocation

    You Have a Calling

    Book Review: You Have A Calling by Karen Swallow Prior

    Posted on January 7, 2026
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    Karen Swallow Prior. You Have A Calling: Finding Your Vocation in the True, Good, and Beautiful. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2025. 146 pp. If you have grown up in or around the Church, the topic of Godโ€™s calling on your life has, at some point, weighed heavily on your mind. Especially in the fervency…

    What to Do after College? Check Out Brazos Fellowship

    Posted on March 19, 2018
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    How do we invest in the future leaders of the church? What might it look like for local churches to help college graduates step into adulthood? How can we cultivate lasting habits in young women and men about to embark on their vocations of work and ministry? These are the questions driving Brazos Fellows, a…

    Leave-Taking

    Posted on March 1, 2016
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    Last week, I received a lapel pin to commemorate twenty-five years of service to public education. It has actually been twenty-seven years, but my school system has only recently begun such recognitions and is a bit โ€œbehind.โ€ I will not get a thirty-year pin. When I close my calculus text in May, I will close…