Your job is not your vocation. Everyone hungers for work that has
meaning and purpose. But what gives work meaning? Vocation, or
"calling," is the answer Protestant Christianity offers: each
person is called by God to serve the common good in a particular
line of work. Your vocation, evidently, might be almost anything:
as a nurse, a wilderness guide, a calligrapher, a missionary, an
activist, a venture capitalist, a politician, an executioner...
Yet, as Will Willimon writes in this issue, the New Testament knows
only one form of vocation: discipleship. And discipleship is far
more likely to mean leaving father and mother, houses and land,
than it is to mean embracing one's identity as a fisherman or tax
collector. This issue of Plough focuses on people who lived their
lives with that sense of vocation. Such a life demands
self-sacrifice and a willingness to recognize one's own supposed
strengths as weaknesses, as it did for the Canadian philosopher
Jean Vanier. It involves a lifelong commitment to a flesh-and-blood
church, as Coptic Archbishop Angaelos describes. It may even
require a readiness to give up one's life, as it did for Annalena
Tonelli, an Italian humanitarian who pioneered the treatment of
tuberculosis in the Horn of Africa. But as these stories also
testify, it brings a gladness deeper than any self-chosen path.
Also in this issue: - Scott Beauchamp on mercenaries - Nathan
Schneider on cryptocurrencies - Stephanie Saldana on Syrian refugee
art - Peter Biles on loneliness at college - Phil Christman on
Bible translation - Michael Brendan Dougherty on fatherhood -
Insights on vocation from C. S. Lewis, Therese of Lisieux, Mother
Teresa, Eberhard Arnold, Dorothy Sayers, Jean Vanier, and Gerard
Manley Hopkins - poetry by Devon Balwit and Carl Sandburg - reviews
of books by Robert Alter, Edwidge Danticat, Matthew D. Hockenos,
Amy Waldman, and Jeremy Courtney - art and photography by Pola
Rader, Dean Mitchell, Mark Freear, Timothy Jones, Pawel Filipczak,
Mary Pal, Harley Manifold, Sami Lalu Jahola, Marc Chagall, and
Russell Bain. Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture
for people eager to put their faith into action. Each issue brings
you in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art to
help you put Jesus' message into practice and find common cause
with others.
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