Steven Garber Archives

Steven Garber Sep 1, 2010 Essay Making the most of college (fifth annual)

Vocation Needs No Justification

Vocations of all sorts are equally important to the work of God in the world, as each one contributes to the common good, to what it is that makes our common welfare a place for more rather than less flourishing. In the life of Dave Kiersznowski and his DEMDACO Corporation, I see this become flesh in his business and life commitments.

Steven Garber Jun 1, 2010 Essay Skillful living

Kuyper the Mystic

“A Christianity that neglects the mystic element grows cold and congeals.” —Abraham Kuyper.

Why personal piety and public life can coexist.

Steven Garber Mar 1, 2010 Essay The story

Everything Has Changed: The Challenge of Being Perennial People

What will you do with what you know?

Steven Garber Sep 1, 2009 Essay Making the most of college (fourth annual)

Come and see: look out for The Fellows Initiative

College grads are being vocationally mentored through a church program that’s spreading across more than a dozen states.

Steven Garber Jan 30, 2009 Uncategorized

Q&A with Steven Garber, “Director, The Washington Institute”

If faith does shape vocation which does shape culture, then it is crucial to take the time to ask and answer the perennial questions that everyone asks and everyone answers, such as what do I believe about faith, vocation and culture? Those three words take us into realms that are difficult to fully fathom—and yet to understand them is central to human flourishing.

Steven Garber Sep 1, 2008 Essay Making the most of college (third annual)

Sex is easier than love: why sexuality is at the very heart of life and learning

Only if the Christian vision of sexuality can make sense of what I feel most deeply, of what I know most profoundly . . . only then can I be persuaded of the Christian vision of everything else.

Steven Garber Feb 15, 2008 Uncategorized

Making peace with proximate justice (reprise)

At the Washington Institute we continue to believe that it is the willingness to pray and work towards proximate justice—the vision of something, rather than all or nothing—that allows us to keep going, even as we face what often seems insurmountable and unchangeable.

Steven Garber Dec 1, 2007 Essay Finding our way to great work

Finding our way to great work, even in politics: Making peace with proximate justice

Christians in politics must learn to accept some justice and some mercy.

Steven Garber Mar 1, 2007 Essay Things we love

Discovering what God loves: a journey from duty to desire

By great grace, our deepest commitments and concerns can become like God’s.

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