An interesting new book out on vocation

[Christopher]

It has been a while since my college days when one is so much more absorbed within group studies. I remember telling one of my former college professors that I felt myself "learning and growing while intellectually stimulated" when in her classes.

The last book that any former professor recommended to me for reading was H.R. Niebuhr's Christ and Culture. Yet, often it can be discouraging when one ends up reading these books by themselves. Wishing to do something with what I was reading, I turned this book into a web-page.

I would speculate that authors such as Max Lucado with his book Cure for the Common Life might be included with Bill Hybel's Purpose Driven Life when the subjet of Vocation gets brought into churches. I personally appreciate the works of Max Lucado in particular.

Yet, I know that I am also biased in what materials I sometimes look for and become excited to see the works that some of my former professors produce. One of my senior seminar courses included this subject of Vocation and within our short responses papers I remember giving a reply to this professor's paper "Protestant Vocation under Assault: Can it be Salvaged?" Since this time, he has turned his paper into a book entitled simply Vocation.

I am just going to put up a link to this book and see if there is anyone interested in doing a study on it. The author is a professor at St. Olaf College in Northfield MN.

http://www.centropian.com/religion/Vocation/Book.html

[Katy Resop]

Hi Christopher!
I'd definitely be up for some group reading! I've been reading a few books myself these days that I wish I could discuss with a group. This could be a great tool for facilitating those discussions. So I'm in! Maybe you could petition a few others with personal invitations? :)
Katy

[Christopher]

That sounds like a good idea. I will see about that.
Thanks,

[Nate Porter]

I'm game, but I'm getting a blank page on the link. Is it Schuurman's book (that is an excellent one)? There are a number of good reads I hit in my Ministry in Daily Life courses. Robert Benne's "Ordinary Saints", Gordon Smith's "Courage and Calling", to name a few. Just say the word.

[Lydia Nelson]

Radical Hospitality: Benedict's Way of Love by Lonni Collins Pratt, Daniel Homan is also a really good book, a short but deep read.