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Faith, Learning & Vocation Study Group on Vocation
Benefits for participants include:
- The opportunity to gain an enhanced understanding of vocation through reading and ongoing dialogue with colleagues from diverse areas of the college.
- Lively discussion in a hospitable atmosphere.
- All reading materials provided at no cost to the participants.
- A stipend, awarded in increments, for those who complete all aspects of the study group.
Expectations for participants include:
- Active participation in the year-long process of readings and discussions.
- Development of an implementation plan which describes the way in which the participant will bring a vocation perspective into his or her work.
Readings to be explored by the 2009-10 study group:
Texts:
- John Schuster's Answering Your Call: A Guide for Living Your Deepest Purpose
(Reading assignment for November 5th)
- John Neafsey's, A Sacred Voice Is Calling
(Reading assignment for December 1st)
- Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning
- Mark R. Schwehn and Dorothy C. Bass' (editors), Leading Lives that Matter: What We Should Do and Who We Should Be
Selections from Leading Lives that Matter include:
- Albert Schweitzer's, I Resolve to Become a Jungle Doctor
- Lee Hardy's, Making the Match: Career Choice
- Gary D. Babcock's, Choosing
- Will Campbell's, Vocation as Grace
- The Martyrdom of Perpetua
- Dorothy Sayers', Why Work?
- Margaret Percy's, To Be of Use
- H.G. Wells', The Door in the Wall
- Abraham Joshua Heschel's, From the Sabbath
- Robert Wuthnow's, The Changing Nature of Work in the United States
- Bonnie Miller-McLemore's, Generativity Crises of My Own
- Arlie Russell Hochschild's, There's No Place Like Work
- Jane Adams', Filial Relations
- Martha Nussbaum Interviewed by Bill Moyer
- Malcom X with Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcom X
- Vincent Harding's, I Hear Them Calling
- Garret Keizer's, From a Dresser of Sycamore Trees
- Thomas Lynch's, Passed On
- Stephen Dunn's, The Last Hours
- Mary Catherine Baetson's, Composing a Life Story
- Dan McAdams', An American Life Story
- Leo Tolstoy's, The Death of Ivan Ilych
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Past Study Group on Vocation participants:
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2004 – 2005
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2005 – 2006
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2006 – 2007 |
2007 – 2008 |
2008 – 2009 |
2009 – 2010 |
| Linda Beane Katner |
Bonnie Berken |
Corday Goddard |
Deb Anderson |
Jerry Donahue |
Susan Allen |
| Sally Ann Brickner |
Tom Bolin |
Nancy Mathias |
Tom Conner |
Angie Moreno |
Joycelin Berry |
| Bridget Burke Ravizza |
John Day |
Cathie Puyleart |
Eric High |
Shelly Mumma |
Anindo Choudhury |
| Karlyn Crowley |
Howard Ebert |
Dan Robinson |
Felice Maciejewski |
Sandy Murphy |
Sam Dunlop |
| Tom Faase |
Deirdre Egan |
Jessica Schmechel |
Yoko Mogi-Hein |
Mandy Nycz |
Leanne Kent |
| Reed Hardy |
Brad Ellis |
Janice Tesch |
Stephen Rupsch |
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Karen Koenig |
| Laurie MacDiarmid |
Debbie Faase |
Kurt Weber |
Jason Senjem |
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Bob Pyne
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| Marcie Paul |
Liz Gordon |
Rebecca Welch |
Matt Stollak |
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Jenny Schroth
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John Neary |
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Ikuko Torimoto |
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Paul Ngo |
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Joe Tullbane |
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Tom Reynolds |
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