Kaethe Schwehn received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She teaches writing at St. Olaf College. Her poetry and prose appear in anthologies and journals such as Pleiades, Crazyhorse, The Cresset, and Fiction on a Stick.L. DeAne Lagerquist holds a PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School. She joined the St. Olaf College faculty in 1988. She has served on the national board of the Lilly Fellows Network of church-related colleges and universities and been a leader in Lutheran higher education.

• Contributors ; Acknowledgments ; Foreword - Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen ; Introduction - Kaethe Schwehn ; 1. "Getting a Vocation": Variations on a Lutheran Theme - L. DeAne Lagerquist ; 2. Good Work and the Good Life: Vocation as What We Do - James J. Farrell ; 3. Work in Progress - Diane LeBlanc ; 4. On Teaching Politics as a Vocation - Douglas Casson ; 5. Vocation, Psychologically Speaking - Donna K. McMillan ; 6. Forty-Three and Out: On the Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Rewards of a Vocation - Mark Pernecky ; 7. Meaningful Lives, Religious Pluralism, and the Case of the Bodhisattva - Barbara E. Reed ; 8. Professing Vocation by Caring for the Land - Kathleen L. Shea ; 9. Vocation and Liberal Learning: The Case for the Exploration of Vocation across the Curriculum - Jo Michelle Beld ; 10. To Practice What We Teach: Action and Reflection - Mary S. Carlsen ; 11. The Power of Example: Anthropology and Vocation - Thomas Williamson ; 12. Coming Into Being: Buddhist Meditation and the Practice of Teaching - Carol Holly ; 13. Professing Religion - John D. Barbour ; Afterword - James J. Farrell and L. DeAne Lagerquist ; Index

Claiming Our Callings is recommended reading for anyone interested in the future of American higher education, whether that education takes place at a church-related institution or a public university or somewhere else.[The book] does not tell colleges and universities what they should do; it does not pontificate about what ought to be. Instead, and much more valuably, it paints a picture of how one particular institution educates students in a manner that inspires reflection on what could be done or might be appropriate. There is no one model of learning and life that applies to all institutions of higher learning, but this record of St. Olafs experiences opens an important doorway of imagination for what might be possible elsewhere.

Kaethe Schwehn received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She teaches writing at St. Olaf College. Her poetry and prose appear in anthologies and journals such as Pleiades, Crazyhorse, The Cresset, and Fiction on a Stick.L. DeAne Lagerquist holds a PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School. She joined the St. Olaf College faculty in 1988. She has served on the national board of the Lilly Fellows Network of church-related colleges and universities and been a leader in Lutheran higher education.

• Contributors ; Acknowledgments ; Foreword - Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen ; Introduction - Kaethe Schwehn ; 1. "Getting a Vocation": Variations on a Lutheran Theme - L. DeAne Lagerquist ; 2. Good Work and the Good Life: Vocation as What We Do - James J. Farrell ; 3. Work in Progress - Diane LeBlanc ; 4. On Teaching Politics as a Vocation - Douglas Casson ; 5. Vocation, Psychologically Speaking - Donna K. McMillan ; 6. Forty-Three and Out: On the Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Rewards of a Vocation - Mark Pernecky ; 7. Meaningful Lives, Religious Pluralism, and the Case of the Bodhisattva - Barbara E. Reed ; 8. Professing Vocation by Caring for the Land - Kathleen L. Shea ; 9. Vocation and Liberal Learning: The Case for the Exploration of Vocation across the Curriculum - Jo Michelle Beld ; 10. To Practice What We Teach: Action and Reflection - Mary S. Carlsen ; 11. The Power of Example: Anthropology and Vocation - Thomas Williamson ; 12. Coming Into Being: Buddhist Meditation and the Practice of Teaching - Carol Holly ; 13. Professing Religion - John D. Barbour ; Afterword - James J. Farrell and L. DeAne Lagerquist ; Index

Claiming Our Callings is recommended reading for anyone interested in the future of American higher education, whether that education takes place at a church-related institution or a public university or somewhere else.[The book] does not tell colleges and universities what they should do; it does not pontificate about what ought to be. Instead, and much more valuably, it paints a picture of how one particular institution educates students in a manner that inspires reflection on what could be done or might be appropriate. There is no one model of learning and life that applies to all institutions of higher learning, but this record of St. Olafs experiences opens an important doorway of imagination for what might be possible elsewhere.

Kaethe Schwehn received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She teaches writing at St. Olaf College. Her poetry and prose appear in anthologies and journals such as Pleiades, Crazyhorse, The Cresset, and Fiction on a Stick.L. DeAne Lagerquist holds a PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School. She joined the St. Olaf College faculty in 1988. She has served on the national board of the Lilly Fellows Network of church-related colleges and universities and been a leader in Lutheran higher education.

• Contributors ; Acknowledgments ; Foreword - Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen ; Introduction - Kaethe Schwehn ; 1. "Getting a Vocation": Variations on a Lutheran Theme - L. DeAne Lagerquist ; 2. Good Work and the Good Life: Vocation as What We Do - James J. Farrell ; 3. Work in Progress - Diane LeBlanc ; 4. On Teaching Politics as a Vocation - Douglas Casson ; 5. Vocation, Psychologically Speaking - Donna K. McMillan ; 6. Forty-Three and Out: On the Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Rewards of a Vocation - Mark Pernecky ; 7. Meaningful Lives, Religious Pluralism, and the Case of the Bodhisattva - Barbara E. Reed ; 8. Professing Vocation by Caring for the Land - Kathleen L. Shea ; 9. Vocation and Liberal Learning: The Case for the Exploration of Vocation across the Curriculum - Jo Michelle Beld ; 10. To Practice What We Teach: Action and Reflection - Mary S. Carlsen ; 11. The Power of Example: Anthropology and Vocation - Thomas Williamson ; 12. Coming Into Being: Buddhist Meditation and the Practice of Teaching - Carol Holly ; 13. Professing Religion - John D. Barbour ; Afterword - James J. Farrell and L. DeAne Lagerquist ; Index

Claiming Our Callings is recommended reading for anyone interested in the future of American higher education, whether that education takes place at a church-related institution or a public university or somewhere else.[The book] does not tell colleges and universities what they should do; it does not pontificate about what ought to be. Instead, and much more valuably, it paints a picture of how one particular institution educates students in a manner that inspires reflection on what could be done or might be appropriate. There is no one model of learning and life that applies to all institutions of higher learning, but this record of St. Olafs experiences opens an important doorway of imagination for what might be possible elsewhere.