The Patriot

Today Gene Veith followed up on the topic of two Christian views of vocation that he introduced yesterday. See his new post Those two doctrines of vocation.

Gene Veith has posted a couple fun articles on coffee on his blog lately: Of Coffee and Christianity and The coffee maker and two doctrines of vocation. He ends the latter post by asking how two different Christian perspectives on vocation, the Reformed view and the Lutheran view, would evaluate his story about a barista.

Veith says that the Reformed view is that we carry out our vocations to the glory of God and that the Lutheran view was that we carry them out to love and serve our neighbors. I was surprised to read that there even were two identifyable views. Surely Reformed Christians believe that they are loving and serving their neighbors in their calling and Lutherans believe they are doing their work to the glory of God. But apparently each tradition has a different emphasis.

Billy Graham addressed the TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) conference in 1998. His presentation was just posted recently on the TED website.

It’s impressive to hear Graham completely being himself, yet relating to an audience that would hardly be called like-minded.

The 2008 CiRCE Institute conference is in Houston this year and is coming up in only two weeks, Thursday, July 24 through Saturday July 26.