ABSTRACT
A vocation is not a career, but a life surrendered to God. Every Christian has a vocation. An academic calling is a vocation to inhabit wisdom, to grow in truth through searching, re-searching, teaching and being taught. It is a dynamic rooted in humility and truth. Vocations can be quirky, unsettling and uncertain. The unity of the Church flows from diversity, not uniformity. So from the very beginning of the gospels, the story about vocations is a testimony to the extraordinary range of people that God uses to share in the work of the kingdom. Vocations often come gradually, emerging from the dawns and dusks of our experiences. The gospel is always about eternal rewards, not the temporal baubles of the Church. In recent times, we often forget that visions and missions in virtually every religious tradition in the world are not constructed by disciples or religious groups.
