Having a calling, something worth living for, can make us happier and healthier, even protect against cardiovascular disease (Shirai et al., 2009). Psychologist Martin Seligman describes the sense of ...
What path is best when establishing a business? There are, arguably, two paths that an entrepreneur can take. The first being to follow the needs of the market and building a business plan on solving ...
Let Your Life Speak: Listening For the Voice of Vocation by Parker Palmer This beautifully written memoir, a classic in the annals of vocational discernment, brings to life the old Quaker adage to ...
With Labor Day weekend, it’s common for preachers to talk about vocation, which from the Latin is literally “calling,” or how God speaks to us about what it is we are to do. Some of us are still ...
Alijondro Jacqueson shares how his grandfather influenced his love of playing baseball. I’ve never really liked sports. While I enjoyed watching and playing sports at school, it wasn’t a big deal to ...
A favorite Zen Buddhist story of mine—such a favorite, I confess, that I mentioned it once before—tells of a novice monk who, on his first day at the monastery, stands before the head monk to receive ...
Each year, 15 first-year students from diverse majors are selected for the program. These students share a common desire to grow in their faith and deepen their understanding of who they are called to ...