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Author: Hugh WhelchelHugh Whelchel was the founder of the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics and author of How Then Should We Work? Rediscovering the Biblical Doctrine of Work. Hugh earned a Master of Arts in Religion and had over 30 years of diverse business experience. He passed away on Good Friday in 2024, four years after being diagnosed with ALS.

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How to Understand Your Vocational Calling

By: Hugh Whelchel

2 minute read

In order to understand the Biblical doctrine of work, we must clearly understand the differences between vocational calling and career,…

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What are Our Primary & Secondary Callings?

By: Hugh Whelchel

5 minute read

The doctrine of vocation was developed with its greatest rigor by Martin Luther, John Calvin, and the other reformers, as…

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The Difference Between Calling and Work

By: Hugh Whelchel

3 minute read

Harvard Business School psychologist Timothy Butler offers the following advice in an article about how vocation differs from career or…

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We are confronted with a wall between personal faith and public work, here at the beginning of the 21st century….

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Have you every heard someone say, “Did you hear about Jim Smith? He quit his job at the bank to…

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Marx and Our Longing for Work to Matter

By: Hugh Whelchel

3 minute read

Following up on our post discussing cultural movements in the 17th-19th centuries that have shaped our view of work, let’s…

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While the Reformers and the Puritans helped to recover the Biblical understanding of “calling” and how it applies to the…

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Recently we have looked at how the early church and the church in the Middle Ages drove a wedge between the…

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In our last post, we saw how the contribution of the early church fathers created the idea that pursuing the…

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By the beginning of the third century we begin to see a subtle shift in the way Christians understood vocation….

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