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Finding Calcutta

Mary Poplin on “Is Reality Secular?”

August 25, 2014 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

Why did you write the book, Is Reality Secular? Mary: Actually I think I just never stopped writing the Appendix of Finding Calcutta after it went to press in 2008. . . .

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Filed Under: Author, Christ and the Academy, Interview, Is Reality Secular Tagged With: college resource, faculty interview, Finding Calcutta, interviews, Is Reality Secular?, Mary Poplin

Finding Calcutta: An “Advent”-ure

December 1, 2011 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

Have you found yourself on an Advent-ure as we’ve considered Finding Calcutta? Do you find yourself longing for and waiting upon the coming of the Lord in your life, your neighborhood, your discipline, your campus, your nation, the creation?

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Filed Under: Academic Vocations, Book Review/Discussion, Christ, Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: Advent, apologetics, calling, Christian Apologetics, evangelism, Finding Calcutta, Mary Poplin, Mother Teresa, Veritas Forum, vocation, work

Finding Calcutta: What is My Legacy?

November 17, 2011 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

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?

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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

Finding Calcutta: I’m not called to be Mother Teresa, but . . .

November 10, 2011 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

As Mother Teresa said, “You can do something I cannot do. I can do something you cannot do. Together let us do something beautiful for God.”

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Filed Under: Academic Vocations, Book Review/Discussion, Christ, Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: calling, church, Finding Calcutta, humility, Love, Mary Poplin, Ministry, Mother Teresa, Obedience, Prayer, vocation, work

Finding Calcutta: “call awareness” w/o losing “Caller dependence”

November 3, 2011 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

Questions to explore: What is the definition of calling? What are biblical characteristics of “finding” one’s calling? Who comes to mind as examples of biblical characters who “found” their calling? What are sins that undermine our calling and we should be prepared to address? Definitions of Calling [T]he truth that God calls us to himself […]

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Filed Under: Academic Vocations, Book Review/Discussion, Christ, Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: Amadeus, calling, Finding Calcutta, Mary Poplin, Mother Teresa, Os Guinness, sin, T.M. Moore, vocation, work

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