September 2025

GOOD THOUGHT

In her welcome letter to the latest issue of Virtues & Vocations: Higher Education for Human Flourishing, Suzanne Shanahan invites us into a conversation about the meanings of work.

follow your bliss
Good Read

Bonnie Miller-McLemore’s latest book begins with a bit of a confession: she doesn’t much like the term calling. It is too lofty, too loaded. An emerita professor of religion and practical theologian at Vanderbilt University, Miller-McLemore has authored, co-authored or edited more than 18 multi-disciplinary books and her latest is all about calling.

GOOD WORK

It’s Friday early in the fall semester, and a group of students from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business board a bus for what Professor Andy Hoffman calls “a four-hour ride into the woods.” At a retreat center, they surrender their phones and laptops—returned only on Sunday—and prepare for a weekend focused not on team building, networking, or branding, but on discerning their life’s calling.

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