Much of the tumult of this election season is, in a roundabout way, all about work. There’s the work of immigrants. There’s the question of steel workers, coal miners, and factory workers in this country. There’s the work of low paid assembly line laborers in other countries with whom we have trade agreements. (And I won’t even mention the work

The week before the seminary started its fall term, I was traveling in Scotland. My grandmother lives there and was in the hospital. I hadn’t seen her, or several other of my close Scottish relatives, for years. And yet, I hesitated when setting up my automatic email response on my seminary email. “Should I admit I’m away for personal travel,”

When I taught at Concordia College, I often found myself discussing the concept of vocation with students. They usually had great plans to find work after college that exactly aligned with their many passions. While I never wanted to squash dreams exactly, I sometimes shared with them a story Craig Barnes tells in his book, The Pastor as Minor Poet.

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