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These days people say Jesus was talking only about feeding the literal poor, but I also think he was talking about extending small kindnesses to people like me.
Can we care for the needy through political means?
Rev. Susan Pendleton Jones and Dr. George Cladis offer three sermons outlines about faith and work. This issue focuses on rest, kindness...
Tomorrow we are moving. Again. My husband and I will be married 18 years in July. This will be our 16th house...
In C. S. Lewis’ beloved story The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the land of Narnia is under an evil curse. It is always winter, but never Christmas. Only Aslan, the great...
That year, for his six-month sabbatical, instead of hitting the speakers' circuit, Dr. Coleman took an unusual path: He spent two months digging ditches . . . two months in a kitchen . . . and two...
How can we love the Lord with our minds? This begins, I would suggest, with choosing to think about God.
A grocery manager gave a young man his first job. Eager to please, the new employee would rush through every task. Then he would say: "What can I do now?"
When my kids were little, I sometimes used what they called my “Loud Voice.” It often came out when we needed to hurry. ...
We’re on the beach, waves thundering, breeze playful, sand beneath our bare skin. I lay my head against her lap, close my eyes. ...
For many years, my only experience with jail was as a token on the corner of the Monopoly board. Sometimes I’d make...
This winter, after becoming aware of widespread human trafficking in the cocoa industry, Kelli decided to do something.
Like Jesus himself, we are to be in the world, engaged with its people, institutions, and cultures.
During my childhood, Burger King told me, “Have it your way.” The catchy jingle meant that you could order your hamburgers according...
I started college because everybody did. I finished college because my father did not.
There is an old Harvard legend that on campus one day, the beloved Dean LeBaron Russell Briggs asked a student why he failed to complete an assignment. ...
Jim was CEO of the hospital, but he still served ice cream at the annual ice cream social. During the day, senior staff members scooped gallons and gallons of ice cream for anyone...
Recently, the High Calling spoke with Scott Wesley, Program Instructor with The WorkFaith Connection.
As a manager for a company that makes hair dryers, Gary believed his organization had no eternal significance.
Looking back at a vintage High Calling video of Rev. Dr. Martin E. Marty, Church Historian, being interviewed on ABC Directions, 1978.
