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Ecclesiastes

What Shall We Remember?

December 27, 2013 by David Leave a Comment

For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to take my girlfriend for a date through the Pulitzer Prize photography exhibition  in Philadelphia. She is much more artistically-minded than I and we had talked before about visiting a gallery or museum sometime. I love photography and thought that the exhibit would be a classy and apt hybrid between our interests. What I had forgotten was that the Pulitzer Prize is awarded for photojournalism, which meant that though each shot was notable for composition and … [Read more...] about What Shall We Remember?

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: Ecclesiastes, memory, Miroslav Volf, new years, Pulitzer Prize photography, The End of Memory

In Its Time

September 27, 2013 by David Leave a Comment

[The third post in a series on becoming a Christian physician. Earlier posts are  Do You Want to Be a Doctor?  and  Helping People Is Not Enough]. After working 24 hours on call in the pediatric ICU, I was exhausted. I wanted to sleep, but friends had recently been reminding me of the  health benefits of breakfast, so  I dragged myself to a local diner for breakfast and sat at the counter next to a father and his little daughter. "We graduated from the booth to the counter," he was explaining to the waitress, … [Read more...] about In Its Time

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Health Care Tagged With: becoming a Christian physician, breakfast, calling, career, Christian physician, doctor, Eat with Joy, Ecclesiastes, ICU, medical student, NPR, ordinary life, physician, vocation

Finding Calcutta: What is My Legacy?

November 17, 2011 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

Probes: How would you articulate the gulf between a secular legacy, one of the world's primary measures of a life's work, and faithful fulfillment of Christian calling? How have you received affirmation/fulfillment in the blessing of Christ's call and following Christ's call? Defining legacy 1. Law. a gift of property, especially personal property, as money, by will; a bequest 2. anything handed down from the  past, as from an ancestor or predecessor: the legacy of ancient Rome --  From … [Read more...] about Finding Calcutta: What is My Legacy?

Filed Under: Christ, Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: calling, Ecclesiastes, eternal life, Finding Calcutta, legacy, Mary Poplin, Mother Teresa, vocation, work

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