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The Myth of Work-Life Balance – Kate Harris

Great article from Kate Harris,??Executive Director of the?Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation, and Culture, writes about the issue of work-life balance. ?

The truth is we all long to have things set right, to shake out, to settle down.?Accepting that in Christ we are most likely to experience these things in the midst of?even through?relationships and circumstances that feel disparate, extreme, or weighty, is a realistic and helpful truth…despite its?counter-intuitive?feel. At the end of?the day, we are not seeking a balanced life so much as a faithful life. And a faithful life mirrors Christ. It reflects a God who bore complexity and constraint, pain and limitation, rather than a God who merely kept it all in check.

Harris argues convincingly that, consistent with the life of Christ, coherence and sustainability are better descriptors or goals for Christian living.

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Vocation is integral – Steve Garber

In this address, Steve Garber from the Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation and Culture addresses the issue of vocation in a challenging yet nurturing way.

Many people today see their job as nothing more than a paycheck. But is one’s calling more than that? Steven Garber says yes. He says there is an intimate connection between one’s faith, vocation, and culture. “Vocation is integral,” he says, “not incidental to the missio Dei.” Steven explains how most of what God is doing in the world happens in and through the vocations of his people.