There is a genuine sense of truth, beauty and goodness when a parent witnesses the development of their own child especially their understanding and relationship with God.
Rev. A. Trevor Sutton, the co-writer with me of Authentic Christianity: How Lutheran Theology Speaks to a Postmodern World, is working on a doctorate in which he is studying the relationship between...
In this week’s ReligionProf Podcast my guest is my Butler University colleague, Brent Hege. Brent and I share a lot of interests in common – not just theology in general, for instance, but...
This short talk was delivered at a Catholic Theology class at the University of San Diego on December 11, 2018. Good afternoon. My name is Rev. Brandan Robertson and I serve as the Lead Pastor of...
You have probably heard about John Chau, the 26-year-old who was dropped off at Sentinel Island, home of one of the most isolated tribes on earth, so that he could tell the inhabitants about Jesus.
The important thing to note from the gift lists in Romans 12 and other passages is that there are many different types of gifts, and they are given by God according to His good will and pleasure.
Thanksgiving is the one national holiday that has an explicitly religious meaning. George Washington got the holiday started “as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by...
What: Leading scholars and practitioners of political theology and national security examining essential historic Christian teaching about God’s purpose for government, starting with its vocation...
When the Rev. Donald Senior first became the president of Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, he kept thinking that administrative tasks were keeping him from his “real work.
The doctrine of vocation has been catching on. There is now something called the “Faith and Work movement,” with think tanks, publications, and programs designed to show Christians the connection...
The most entrepreneurial city in North America is, in many ways, just what you might expect. Jeans-clad urban workers lounging in downtown parks and grabbing lunch from food carts.
What an incredible and inspiring story! In a recent interview with NBC News, Kirstin Holum Former Speed Skater and Olympic competitor-turned Franciscan Sister of the Renewal, said that “everyone...
Our work is part of our calling from God–along with our families, our church life, and our citizenship–where He places us to love and serve our neighbors, as He works through us in our everyday lives.
Geoffrey Owens is a Shakespearean actor, but he is best known for his role on The Cosby Show back in the 1980s, playing the boyfriend of one of the Huxtable daughters and later her husband.
Jerusalem, Sep 10, 2018 / 07:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A religious vocation to serve in the Holy Land is demanding, but there is nothing like walking where Christ walked to strengthen the life of a...
And what better way to celebrate this holiday than to hear from Martin Luther, the great theologian of Vocation. Here he underscores how we are not saved by our works and yet how good works are part...
Earlier this year I shared three things your calling is not—it’s not for you, it’s not from you, and it’s not future tense. Formative in my understanding of this pervasive but often misunderstood...
Last week, Hill wrote a report on the conference for First Things entitled “Revoice And a Vocation of Yes.” Before Hill wrote this piece, he and other Revoice organizers had already engaged in...
At the end of July, in a barely air-conditioned Presbyterian church in St. Louis, Missouri, beneath soaring stained glass windows, a crowd of mostly non-straight people—some four hundred...
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| 7/19/2018
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Yesterday I posted about a lovely video made in Italy, which clearly and in a positive light presents traditional liturgy of the Roman Rite and the priestly vocation.
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| 7/18/2018
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Pope Francis said something along the lines that certain realities can be seen only through eyes that have been cleansed by tears. At the Italian site Messa in Latino, I saw a little video,...
We recently asked our readers to send us vocation stories to help parents inspire religious vocations in their children. Today, we post our second set of stories.
We recently asked our readers to send us vocation stories to help parents inspire religious vocations in their children. Today, we post our first two stories. We asked our older readers who have...
A few years ago we ran a short, but very popular, series of posts called "The joy of big families" (we've tagged it in the labels below for our readers to easily find and read).
In our recent post, The Vocation of a Spy, we discussed whether espionage is a legitimate vocation from God, and, if it is, does the vocation authorize the morally problematic activities that a spy...
Normally, the leadership of important government agencies like the CIA goes to politicians, campaign allies, or career bureaucrats. This spoils system approach is not always bad, resulting in some...
Barletta, Italy, May 11, 2018 / 12:16 am (ACI Prensa).- The investiture of Sister Maria Vittoria della Croce last month marked the first ceremony of its kind to be held in the Italian city of...
It’s been a hard last three years for our faculty. In August 2015 music professor Lynda Bradley-Vacco lost her battle with cancer, as did political scientist Stacey Hunter Hecht that December.
As controversies roil over police shootings, such as that of Stephon Clark in Sacramento (reportedly shot 8 times in the back), we should remember to honor the vast majority of officers who love and...
Today, on Maundy Thursday, we commemorate Christ’s gift of Holy Communion, in which He gives in an ongoing way His body and blood for us in bread and wine. Peter Leithart at Christianity Today...
Arlington’s Bishop Michael Burbidge had some warm words about deacons in The Catholic Herald, which is running a series this year on the 50th anniversary of the restoration of the permanent...
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| 3/6/2018
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In this podcast we hear the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s 1990 Instruction Donum veritatis, “On the Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian”. I post this now because of the present...
In the current debates over gun ownership and self-defense, we would do well to consider how the doctrine of vocation applies. On the most basic level, according to Romans 13, we are not to impose...
Retirement underscores two important facets of the doctrine of vocation: the purpose of every vocation is loving and serving our neighbors. And the way we make our living is only one of our vocations...
Tim Tebow, Heisman Trophy winner and former NFL quarterback whose been playing minor league baseball since 2016, was asked how he balances being a professional athlete and charity work.
As Christians, we are stewards of the resources God gives us for serving the human community. Our vocations are one avenue for doing God’s work in the world. Stewardship is the cultivation of...
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| 1/27/2018
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"The great Father Zed, Archiblogopoios" - Fr. John Hunwicke "Some 2 bit novus ordo cleric" - Anonymous Rev - John - Zuhlsdorf - Blogger - Fights "Rev. John Zuhlsdorf, a traditionalist blogger who...
Peter Mussett seems like an average Boulderite: hipster glasses, bushy beard, curly man-bun, feet laden with the token Chaco sandals. Seeing him pass on the street wouldn’t draw much attention, but...
Consider, for example, this piece by Patrick Callahan, Charles Dickens’ War on Christmas. This is a much better and more nuanced treatment than most, but it advances the by-now-familiar thesis that...
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| 12/11/2017
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Click daily and say this powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel in this time of chaos and spiritual warfare for the Church's integrity. "We as Catholics have not properly combated (the...
I recently came across an interesting datum about the priest shortage in this country, especially in the large archdioceses. It seems that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles ordained only seven men in...
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| 11/28/2017
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Liturgical worship… priestly vocations… Is what we are doing working or not? Robert Mickens is exactly wrong about priestly vocations. Here’s why. Disaster - Vocations - Identity - Liturgy - Prayer...
“This is not about me. My vocation story is all about God.” These words of Bishop Michael C. Barber, S.J., were spoken at a Magnificat Prayer Breakfast that I attended in Oakland, California.
Denver, Colo., Nov 10, 2017 / 03:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- When speaking about vocational life, the first people who come to mind are often married couples, priests or nuns.
Jim Priest, a family columnist for the Daily Oklahoman, discussed “sologamy,” the growing practice of marrying oneself. A woman or a man (usually a woman) who has decided to remain single dresses up...
Anyway, her pursuing this degree has been a conversation we’ve had for close to fifteen years. But finances and children and accessibility to a program and then finances again have always pushed it.
But if we are not careful we can create a kind of second class system by elevating those whose vocations seem more praiseworthy—white collars or creative such as artists, engineers, lawyers, and...
If you are a manual laborer, you find that the Bible has been put into your workshop, into your hand, into your heart. It teaches and preaches how you should treat your neighbor.
It is time to attempt answers to another collection of questions from my Ask Me Anything feature. This week’s questions concern the Proverbs 31 woman, sex that doesn’t go all the way, abstinence...
Why do we work? For five or six days of every week, most of us spend at least half of our waking hours doing a job. We take time away from our families and away from worldly pleasures to pursue an...