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Cranach | 7/1/2019 | Staff
I just heard from Crossway that they are running a special promotion of my book God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life. You can buy the e-book on Amazon for a mere $3.99.
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Cranach | 6/19/2019 | Staff
The Barna Research Group, in conjunction with Abilene Christian University, has published a study entitled Christians at Work. It demonstrates that Christians’ awareness of the doctrine of vocation...
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www.barnhardt.biz | 5/18/2019 | Ann BarnhardtThis is the THIRD priesthood the biggest fag hag in Rome, Liz Lev, spawn of New World Order darling Mary Ann Glendon, has contributed to the wrecking of (that we know of).
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Catholic News Agency | 5/17/2019 | Staff
Vatican City, May 17, 2019 / 03:38 am (CNA).- The Vatican announced Friday that the next World Meeting of Families will focus on the vocation of married life as a path to holiness with a particular...
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The Heidelblog | 4/27/2019 | Staff
In the period between the early post-apostolic church (e.g., the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD) and the Reformation (beginning in the early 16th century AD) the church came to develop some unbiblical and...
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Catholic News Agency | 4/17/2019 | Staff
Denver, Colo., Apr 17, 2019 / 04:17 pm (CNA).- Many years before she entered religious life, Sister Mary Gianna Thornby was an ordinary high school sophomore at Columbine High School in the suburbs...
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The Aquila Report | 3/13/2019 | StaffThe “alien righteousness” we have in Christ is a real righteousness, delivering us from the “alien” sinfulness that we have in Adam. When we are united to Christ by faith–as a result of His grace and...
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Cranach | 2/28/2019 | Staff
I’m in a reading group that just finished discussing Luther’s Two Kinds of Righteousness. Friends, you have got to read this brief tract based on one of Luther’s sermons from 1519.
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The Aquila Report | 2/24/2019 | StaffIn Luther’s mind, the methods and tools of one’s craft—technology—are rightly used when deployed in service to neighbors; needles, thimbles, beer barrels, scales, computers, and smartphones ought to...
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Knowing Is Doing | 2/15/2019 | Staff
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.
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Cranach | 2/14/2019 | Staff
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...
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Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. McGrath | 12/19/2018 | Staff
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...
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Nomad | 12/10/2018 | Staff
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...
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Cranach | 12/4/2018 | Staff
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.
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The Aquila Report | 12/2/2018 | StaffThe 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.
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Cranach | 11/22/2018 | Staff
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...
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Juicy Ecumenism | 10/24/2018 | Mark Tooley
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...
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www.faithandleadership.com | 10/16/2018 | Staff
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.
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Cranach | 10/15/2018 | Staff
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...
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ChristianityToday.com | 9/20/2018 | Staff
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.
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ChurchPOP | 9/24/2018 | Staff
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...
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The Aquila Report | 9/22/2018 | StaffOur 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.
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Cranach | 9/11/2018 | Staff
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.
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Catholic News Agency | 9/10/2018 | Staff
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...
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Cranach | 9/3/2018 | Staff
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...
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The Gospel Coalition | 8/23/2018 | Staff
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...
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The Aquila Report | 8/20/2018 | StaffLast 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...
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First Things | 5/5/2014 | Wesley Hill
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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wdtprs.com | 7/19/2018 | View all posts by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf →
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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wdtprs.com | 7/18/2018 | View all posts by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf →
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,...
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rorate-caeli.blogspot.com | 7/16/2018 | StaffWe 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.
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rorate-caeli.blogspot.com | 7/9/2018 | StaffWe 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...
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rorate-caeli.blogspot.com | 6/28/2018 | StaffA 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).
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Cranach | 5/18/2018 | Staff
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...
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Cranach | 5/14/2018 | Staff
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...
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Catholic News Agency | 1/28/2016 | Staff
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...
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Anxious Bench | 4/25/2018 | Staff
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.
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Cranach | 4/5/2018 | Staff
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...
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Cranach | 3/29/2018 | Staff
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...
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The Deacon's Bench | 3/15/2018 | Staff
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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wdtprs.com | 3/6/2018 | View all posts by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf →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...
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Cranach | 3/5/2018 | Staff
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...
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The Aquila Report | 2/28/2018 | StaffRetirement 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...
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The Federalist | 2/12/2018 | Bre Payton
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.
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ChurchLeaders | 2/5/2018 | Staff
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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wdtprs.com | 1/27/2018 | View all posts by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf →
"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...
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CU Independent | 1/20/2018 | CU Independent
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...
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Cranach | 12/19/2017 | Staff
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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wdtprs.com | 12/11/2017 | View all posts by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf →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...
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The Catholic Thing | 11/28/2017 | Fr. Mark A. Pilon
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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