\n This posting has a spectrum of perspectives\/content on it.\u00a0 First some faith-based items:<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
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Description<\/em><\/p>\n Is it possible to know the world and still love the world? Of all the questions we ask about our calling, this is the most difficult. From marriages to international relations, the more we know, the harder it is to love. We become cynics or stoics, protecting our hearts from the implications of what we know. But what if the vision of vocation can be recovered\u2014allowing us to step into the wounds of the world and for love\u2019s sake take up our responsibility for the way the world turns out? For decades Steve Garber has come alongside a wide range of people as they seek to make sense of the world and their lives. With him we meet leaders from the Tiananmen Square protest who want a good reason to still care about China. We also meet with many ordinary people in ordinary places who long for their lives to matter:<\/p>\n Vocation is when we come to know the world in all its joy and pain and still love it. Vocation is following our calling to seek the welfare of the world we live in. And in helping the world to flourish, strangely, mysteriously, we find that we flourish too. Garber offers a book for everyone everywhere\u2014for students, for parents, for those in the arts, in the academy, in public service, in the trades and in commerce\u2014for all who want to discover the virtue of vocation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n From DSC:<\/span><\/em> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “It is possible to get all A’s and still flunk life.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n “From mime artists in Paris, to attorneys walking the killing fields of Rwanda, to young, eager human rights activists in Washington, to graduate students at at Yale,<\/span> how does one learn\u00a0 to see with the eyes of the heart, to see oneself as responsible for the way the world is and isn’t? <\/span><\/strong>Not a cheap question, and there are no cheap answers.”<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n From DSC:<\/span><\/em> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n NetVUE<\/strong> <\/a>is a nationwide\u00a0network of colleges and universities committed to enriching\u00a0the intellectual and theological exploration of vocation among undergraduate students.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now, for some items that are not (necessarily) faith-related:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Blackboard Debuts Free College and Career Guidance App<\/strong><\/a> — from thejournal.com by Joshua Bolkan<\/p>\n Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n Blackboard has a released a free mobile app, Job Genie<\/a>, designed to help students explore career paths and college options.”The app is a result of qualitative research<\/a> with students that indicated a large amount of apprehension around key academic decisions, such as picking a school, major or career path,” according to a news release. “Designed to be a non-threatening way to explore various education and job options, the app uses casual language and aesthetics to reinforce that these choices are part of a journey and that students should not feel locked into a single recommendation.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"VisionsOfVocation-2014\"](\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/VisionsOfVocation-2014.jpg\")
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\n Some quotes from the book:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n![\"knowing-what-you-know---august-2014\"](\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/knowing-what-you-know-august-20141.jpg\")
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\nThe above book was recommended to me by the Director of CIC NetVUE, Dr. Shirley Roels.\u00a0 For more information about CIC NetVUE, see the items below:<\/span><\/p>\n
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