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Book Review of Follow Your Bliss and Other Lies about Calling
Follow Your Bliss and Other Lies about Calling Published by Oxford University Press in 222pp / $29 / 978-0190084042 Finding one’s calling is a rich, complex journey. Honesty “about the ups and downs of calling will open up conversation” that fosters contemplating more meaningful and purposeful lives (16). That is one of the primary aims of Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore’s recent book.
The NetVUE Big Read: Exploring Diverse Perspectives and Vocational Reflection
Webinar presenters and host: (top row, left to right) C. Douglas Johnson and Esteban Loustaunau; (bottom row, left to right): Tara Brooke Watkins and Rachel Pickett. On January 28, NetVUE hosted its first webinar of the calendar year, which explored this year’s Big Read—Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore’s Follow Your Bliss and Other Lies about Calling—from diverse perspectives and lived experiences.
Engaging NetVUE’s Big Read with Students in the Classroom
In Follow Your Bliss and Other Lies About Calling, Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore explores the “double-edged” quality of our callings, grappling honestly with how we live out our vocations in all their complexities.
Scriptural Reasoning for Vocational Reflection
On October 22, NetVUE’s scriptural reasoning coordinator, Nick Adams, led a webinar on the tenets of Scriptural Reasoning and ways to implement this program successfully. The discussion with his co-presenters explored various ways to engage faculty, staff, and students in this work, focusing on the technical aspects of the practice, its connection to chaplaincy and community building, important campus partnerships, and ways to engage students.
The NetVUE Big Read: Exploring Our Callings to Higher Education
When we explore and discern our vocations, we often wrestle with both the joys and hardships that we face in the many roles we play in life. NetVUE’s first webinar of this academic year explored this topic on September 16, and featured Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, the author of this year’s Big Read, Follow Your Bliss and Other Lies About Calling.
Taking Vocation Beyond Campus: Innovative Ways to Engage Diverse Populations
Engaging students in the classroom continues to be an essential part of undergraduate education. But what if we took our work outside the typical classroom? To reach a those students who may not have easy access to education, we must become creative and meet them where they are. Opportunities to explore meaning and purpose should be accessible to all. NetVUE’s February 2024 Webinar focused on vocational elements of education and personal development outside of typical educational settings.
Peace, Conflict Resolution, and Vocation: A Call to Respond
Engaging students in the classroom continues to be an essential part of undergraduate education but is often a challenging task. Current world events can be complicated, stressful, and difficult to understand. NetVUE’s November 2023 Webinar focused on vocational elements of peacemaking and conflict resolution in the context of existing conflict and violence in various parts of the world, such as Gaza and Ukraine.
Vocation and Film: Finding Meaning at the Movies
Engaging students in the classroom continues to be an essential yet challenging part of undergraduate education. Popular culture can provide an additional avenue for connection. Exploring meaning and purpose can be a creative and effective way to bring contemporary media into the classroom. On September 26, 2023, NetVUE hosted a webinar focused on vocational elements in current films.
Vocation in Action: Community Engagement with Diverse Populations
As our society continues to become more diverse and connected to the global community, students need to consider their vocations in a sociocultural context. In addition to helping students discern their many callings in life, this work can make an important contribution to developing campuses and communities that are more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and just.
Vocational Narratives: Finding Meaning in Challenging Times
As students continue to navigate ever-changing, demanding times in higher education and the world, feeling a sense of purpose and control over one’s life is important. NetVUE’s Spring 2023 webinar on February 7 focused on vocational narratives as a creative and effective way to find meaning in challenging times. The webinar featured three speakers who discussed their experiences and strategies for integrating vocational narratives in our work with students.
Vocational Discernment as a Wellness Tool
Campus life is gradually beginning to return to a new normal after two years of pandemic learning. Students are back in classrooms, and co-curricular activities are in full swing. However, there is still much healing and readjustment to do since the psychological impact of the COVID19 pandemic will be with us for years to come.
Letter to the Editor: An open letter to President Mun Choi
_Letters to the editor are submitted from outside The Maneater and do not represent the view of the newspaper, editorial board or staff._ __Dear President Choi,__ We are an anonymous collective of students that have watched the administration of this university ignore our voices for over 100 years.
History repeats itself: A comprehensive view of student dissent at MU
MU students have persistently protested injustice since the university’s founding in 1839, but three parallel movements stand out in particular. The first movement of documented racial activism at MU began in 1958 when several Black students protested discrimination in local restaurants.
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