{"id":2006,"date":"2013-04-13T21:16:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T02:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.snc.edu\/susanallen\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2013-04-13T21:16:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T02:16:29","slug":"on-and-off-the-shelf-a-calling-to-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/uncategorized\/on-and-off-the-shelf-a-calling-to-share\/","title":{"rendered":"On and Off the Shelf: A Calling to Share"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>All my books on vocation* would neatly fill one shelf \u2013 if they just felt called to stay put! This small collection has almost all come my way via the reading groups sponsored by the office of faith learning and vocation (FLV) on campus and, as these volumes come, they go. Since these works on calling get me thinking, and talking about what I’ve read \u2013 and since I have a mentoring bent that seems to draw the questing, reinventing, or plain stuck soul \u2013 my shelf has become a little circulating library. I like that.<\/span><\/p>\n

These books all came to me as gifts of the college, so I am happy to I pass them out freely: It\u2019s a gesture of thanks, actually, to the Lilly Foundation, whose very generous grant has funded these programs in the past and helped St. Norbert become a leader in the theological exploration of vocation. For myself, \u00a0I\u2019ve been able to make new friends among the faculty and staff through all-college book reads, a year-long study of vocation, and our current spring vocation reading group. <\/span><\/p>\n

I’m not the only one sharing books: trustee Mike Van Asten \u201975 <\/strong>is a regular too, and on occasion he has bought a case of a particular book he’s discovered through FLV, to share with his employees. One way or another, the word is getting out.<\/span><\/p>\n

Next Tuesday me, Mike and half-a-dozen other SNC folk meet for our final session on this spring’s three books. We’ve been studying memoirs: “<\/span>three distinct voices on the theme ‘When Callings Challenge.’ ” We can count on a fruitful and enjoyable late-afternoon discussion, and we’ll end this meeting with a shared dinner. Here’s this semester’s list. I sometimes think I’d like to run these in the magazine and find a way for our readers to engage, too.<\/span><\/p>\n