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Vocation, Practices, Health & Well-being, Laity

Warren Kinghorn: Asking broader questions of medicine

Medicine needs physicians who can call on the Christian tradition to offer another way of thinking about human flourishing, sickness and health, says a physician-theologian.

Congregations, Laity, Role in church

Flipping the system

A virtual traffic system would flip the driving experience. How would the church benefit if its leaders flipped work processes or ways of thinking, particularly around the role of laypeople?

Laity, Work lives

A lawyer-turned-pastor writes that he found greater meaning in his life when he began to pray at his law firm. Now he helps equip laypeople to discover their vocations and integrate their faith and work lives.

Congregations, Laity, Clergy/lay relationship

David Lose: Rethinking the role of pastor

Pastors shouldn’t be the only ones to interpret Scripture and connect faith and daily life. Their role ought to be to form congregants to do that work themselves.

Bishop Joseph A. Galante at a commissioning service at St. Anthony of Padua, Hammonton, N.J. Photo by Christine Scheller

Laity, Role in church

Forming laity, for life and ministry

In a time of great change in the Catholic Diocese of Camden, NJ, a program gives laypeople the skills they need to bring a new vibrancy and passion to the local parish.

Sermons, Letters, Laity, Work lives

Justin Morgan: It's Sunday, but Monday's coming

Work is inherently meaningful, part of what it means to be made in the image of God, says a UMC pastor. So go forth to do the work that God has given you.

Vocation, Laity

Rachel Held Evans: What is biblical womanhood, really?

Spending an intense year studying what the Bible had to say about women led the author of “A Year of Biblical Womanhood” to confront her worst fears about Scripture -- and to draw closer to God.