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Feeling called to something more? Whether you're exploring religious life, ministry, or a career that aligns with your values, vocational discernment is a journey of prayer, reflection, and discovery. This resource page offers guidance, tools, and inspiration to help you listen deeply to where God may be leading you. Explore articles, spiritual exercises, testimonials, and practical steps to navigate your path with faith and confidence. No matter where you are in your discernment, you are not alone—let’s walk this journey together.
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Pathways to Belonging
Pathways to Belonging is an invitation to an experience of community, connection, and meaning. We need belonging as much as we need air to fill our lungs. But alienation, isolation, and distrust are the everyday markers of our lives--including our faith communities. The twenty-two contributors in this book offer an engaging path forward, inviting readers to the promise and peril of Christian belonging. Belonging matters now more than ever. Indeed, belonging is the question of this generation. Like the air we breathe, belonging is also a matter of life and death. In an age of self-help strategies and shiny lives, the contributors to this volume are grounded in the depths of lived experience. Contextual, story-driven, and representing a global network of thought leaders, each chapter equips individuals and communities to take the next step. Pathways to Belonging points the way to the expansive, flourishing life for which we yearn.
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
This book is filled with incredible wisdom, grace-filled compassion, and gentle humor, inviting us to listen to the inner teacher and encouraging us to follow its lead towards a life full of meaning and purpose. Parker Palmer tells about his own life’s story, explaining how his life experiences and the voice of others helped him discern a way forward, both in the hard times and the good times. He shares insights that he gained from the dark moments in life when doors closed, sharing openly and honestly about a time when he passed through a valley of depression. And he also talks about the fulfillment he experienced in the moments of success and joy, all of which have helped illuminate a pathway toward a vocation for his life. This book shares Palmer’s narrative as he invites all of us who seek God‘s true calling for our lives.
Another Way: Living & Leading Change on Purpose
This book is a perfect read for the person who is discerning their own purpose, or someone who is accompanying others on the path of discerning purpose or leading organizational change. In this book, you will encounter a set of four practices that help individuals and communities and organizations lead lasting change for good, change that is rooted in the deep places where the soul resides. The book lays out practical exercises, activities, and disciplines accompanied with stories of hope about how creative and healthy change can ignite transformational moments in the lives of individuals, companies, and communities. If you long for wisdom on transformational leadership and vocational discernment, this book is a must read.