The Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation, and Culture promotes the understanding that vocation is integral, not incidental, to God's mission in the world.
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"The gospel is not only good news of comfort but also a call to live out resurrection hope." Read how one Arabic church bears witness to their NYC community that the cross can turn despair into hope and suffering into a testimony of God’s redeeming love.
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The law being written on the heart of every person means apologetics is not only an intellectual endeavor, but a moral endeavor as well.
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This Juneteenth, we're revisiting the story of Rev. Matthew Anderson (1845-1928), whose love for God and his neighbor compelled him to kingdom building and institution building, to gospel proclamation and advocacy for the least of these.
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Any organization run by Christians should be consistent not just in the mission, but also in the organization’s identity, and its ethos.
Read the what, who, why, and how of "organizational faithfulness": washingtoninst.org/faithful-…
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The entire collection of 150 Psalms has a single, profound message toward which every psalm is ultimately oriented. We hear it proclaimed clearly in Psalm 93.
Read from Dr. Scott C. Jones of @CovenantCollege washingtoninst.org/psalm-93-…
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John 13 ought to act as a hand-grenade tossed into the playground of Christian activity. What is it that Jesus thinks is most important when it comes to the future of Christianity?
A reflection for Maundy Thursday, by TWI Fellow Bruce Lowe of @RTSAtlanta washingtoninst.org/some-refl…
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As cupbearer to a pagan king, how does Nehemiah navigate his faith and vocation in a context that is not necessarily hostile to his beliefs? washingtoninst.org/nehemiah-…
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Practically, how do we live well in the world, but not be "of it"?
In our new series, we're studying biblical characters to learn how God calls us to navigate assimilation and distinction in the world and our vocations.
Let's begin with Joseph... washingtoninst.org/joseph-in…
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More often than not the history of martyrdom is one of pushing back against the political order, believing that rightly ordered loves will lead to rightly ordered lives, to a true citizenship of earth and heaven.
Read from Dr. Steven Garber: washingtoninst.org/a-rightly…
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This week, @EDRodewald examines “fast knowledge” and our rapidly-changing technological world, advocating for biblical wisdom to come into the calculus. washingtoninst.org/finding-w…
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Matthew 1 begins not with Jesus' birth, but with 17 verses of genealogy. Why? What does Matthew give us by beginning this way? washingtoninst.org/matthew-1…
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As the Advent season begins, you may be somewhere far from joyful. This week, we consider the places as "far as the curse is found". washingtoninst.org/advent-me…
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Of all the things that Daniel can teach us, perhaps one of the most overlooked is how to deal with anticlimax—those moments where we experience a letdown instead of fulfillment, or where happiness and grief well up simultaneously but grief overpowers. washingtoninst.org/when-the-…
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"I don’t know who I am, and I have no idea what I’m doing with my life.
And I don’t know where I’m going with my career.
Right now, I am just working for money. Isn’t this what everyone does?"
Has this ever sounded like you? washingtoninst.org/finding-o…
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The work of love and the love of work. 1 Thessalonians makes the case that there is no divide between brotherly love and the work of our hands. washingtoninst.org/1-thessal…
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What is the most important part of the worship service? Writing in the 1880’s, Herman Bavinck offers perhaps a surprising answer.
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Dickens's "Bleak House" character was content to wander through life, never really settling with devotion upon a particular vocation, even though he had all the tools.
How do we work well, even if we never find our "thing"? washingtoninst.org/the-trage…
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Christians, as exiles, are not free entirely to assimilate into this world’s norms, customs, and priorities.
True exiles, in word and deed, will stand out, fit nowhere, yet reflect their truest home—the kingdom of God.
From @justinadour of @RedeemerEH washingtoninst.org/an-exiled…
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