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A Father’s Letter about Vocation
Brad Jersak is a Canadian author and teacher whose academic interests include political and contemplative theology, and especially the connection between spirituality and social justice. He pays...
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On Toronto’s Sidewalks: A Spirituality of Place and the Built Environment
Born in Finland and raised in Vancouver, Canada, Heikki Walden is a residential real estate agent in Toronto who blogs at City Positive, where Missio discovered his keen sense of the meaning and...
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Friendship at a Fruit Stand: A Photo Story
Abdullah, Mario’s friend Mario Mattei is an American independent photographer and filmmaker living in Turkey with his wife, Angela, and their three children. He has an extensive CV of creative activity...
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Cairo’s Caravan Festival: Journeying Together through the Arts
Beginning May 9 and continuing through May 16, St. John’s Episcopal Church in the Maadi neighborhood of southern Cairo will hold its fifth annual Caravan Festival of the Arts, with the theme of “In...
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René Padilla on Identity and Shalom
We at Missio recently came across the good work of Alan Brisco and his stimulating “Provoked to Newness” podcasts, 10-12 minute edited interviews that feature a variety of thoughtful interlocutors,...
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Through the Jesus Lens: An Interview with Dave and Kathi Peters of Global...
Dave and Kathi Peters are Global Story2 Films, an American husband-and-wife film-making team who often tell stories about the world’s forgotten and abandoned on film. Their work has brought them to...
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God is Not Elsewhere: Poetry, Prophecy, and Sight
Our family is moving from Jordan this week after three and a half years of living here. A day ago, the packers finished boxing up our possessions, and now the rooms of our apartment, almost fully...
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This poetry resource list is both preliminary and personal. Thank you for meditating with us this week about poetry in the life of faith and work. Let’s do it again soon. Poets who instruct me, along...
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Flying the Speaker In: Ambition, Distance, and Destiny
As a young pastor, years ago, my father was often bemused by the variable of travel — especially travel of great distances — to the significance, value, and draw of a guest speaker. A speaker that had...
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World Next Door
World Next Door is facilitating some lovely global work. The Indianapolis-based non-profit “embeds” journalists in organizations and ministries around the world to discover and document stories in...
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Deepening the Soul for Justice: An Interview with Bethany Hoang
Missio spoke with Bethany Hoang, director of International Justice Mission’s Institute for Biblical Justice, about her new book, Deepening the Soul for Justice (IVP, 2013). TWI: Bethany, tell us a bit...
View ArticlePeacemaking 10 Meters Apart
I have Chris Seiple of the Institute for Global Engagement to thank for bringing to my attention this short film about a remarkable day of common good between Christians and Muslims in Macedonia —...
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Chasing Misery: An Interview about Humanitarian Aid Work with Kelsey Hoppe
Kelsey Hoppe works for the Pakistan Humanitarian Forum (PHF), a membership organization of international NGOs providing humanitarian aid in Pakistan, where she lives. Previously, she worked in a range...
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“God, give Egypt success”: Praying Prayers with A Sense of Belonging in Egypt
Missio’s Tuesday “global” edition has had its eyes on Jayson Casper’s blog, A Sense of Belonging, for quite some time. Residing in Cairo, Egypt with his wife and young daughters, Jayson is a writer for...
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Listening Globally
As Tuesday’s Missio blog task is to listen and encounter the faith, vocation, and culture conversation from voices around the world, a recent pseudonymously penned essay on the theological vocation...
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Resource List: Late Summer Gardening
The heavy late summer air in the Washington, D.C., area does not as easily draw one out into the garden as the siren song of spring, but gardening in late summer necessitates (and perhaps...
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The Everyday Heroes – The Telos Group
As news of a possible renewal of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks has been dwarfed by the State Department’s travel warnings and embassy closures across the Middle East and North Africa, it’s worth...
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The Art of Mechanics
“My best friend Julio was once just a kid from the street,” David tells me. “He didn’t have a family, and only went to school through the sixth grade. When he was 13 years old, he got a job at an auto...
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“A Part of Me Wants to Stay Undone”: A Week of WASH Work
I must admit that WASH — a acronym that public health workers know stands for “water, sanitation, and hygiene” — always catches my eye because it’s part of my sister’s vocation, so it’s on my radar...
View ArticleTime Lapse of a Megacity
A beautiful, mesmerizing, and even haunting 7-minute time lapse film of Karachi, Pakistan, by Fazz Kazi, kept me mulling this past week on Anne Dillard’s brilliant truism that how we spend our days is...
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