Connie Goddard is a journalist and independent scholar. This interview is based on her new book, Learning for Work: How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic Opportunity (University of Illinois Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write Learning for Work? CG: […]
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N.T. Wright on Paul’s Epistle to the Romans and vocation
Readers of this blog know that I am a big N.T. Wright fan. His book on the resurrection, The Resurrection of the Son of God, strengthened my Christian faith. Today I want to call your attention to Wright’s new book […]
Ideas in progress: Christopher J. Lane on teaching, vocation, and the stress of discerning a calling
Christopher J. Lane is Associate Professor of History at Christendom College (Front Royal, VA) and the author of Callings and Consequences: The Making of Catholic Vocational Cultural in Early Modern France. As you get ready to begin another academic year, […]
Ideas in Progress: Julie Durbin on vocation, mission, teaching, and the creative life (Part I)
I have gotten glimpses but would love to hear more about your vocational life so far. You are currently an academic, but you have also spent a significant part of your life on the mission field in Ukraine. What was this like? What […]
Nadya Williams on leaving academia
Readers of Current will know Nadya Williams as our book review editor and lead blogger at The Arena. But she also spent the last fifteen years (following her Ph.D at Princeton) teaching ancient history at the University of West Georgia. […]
Christian intellectual life: “strategy” or “vocation?”
Read Ross Douthat’s recent piece on Christian intellectuals. Now read Alan Jacobs’s critique of it. Here is a taste: It’s rare for me to disagree with Ross Douthat as thoroughly as I disagree with this reflection on Christian intellectuals. I disagree […]
Henri Nouwen, “A Journey of the Heart”
Yesterday my Created and Called for Community students read “Adam’s Peace,” an essay (originally delivered as a lecture) by the late spiritual writer and Catholic priest Henri Nouwen. Nouwen reflects on his experience with Adam Arnett, a severely disabled man […]