With Colin on vacation, Onsi and Rhys decide to talk about vocation. These days, people get pretty het up trying to find their "calling" or "vocation" in life - but they don't often realise that, in doing so, they're rehashing a foundational Protestant doctrine. Onsi and Rhys discuss how Luther kicked back against the medieval view of vocation, and gave dignity not just to our work but our other roles in life as well. But are there holes to pick in the Protestant doctrine? And is it still of us in a world much changed from that of the 1500s?

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Currently Reading
Onsi: The Koran
Rhys: Piranesi by Susannah Clarke

Texts Discussed
The Babylonian Captivity of the Church by Martin Luther
The Freedom of a Christian by Martin Luther
On the Estate of Marriage by Martin Luther
Lectures on Galatians by Martin Luther
"Inhabiting the Places of Promise: Luther's Teaching on the Three Institutions" by Michael Laffin
The Doctrine of the Church in the Theology of the Refomers by Paul D.L. Avis

Spotlight
Reforming Classical Education: Toward a New Paradigm (pre-order now, publication 8/2/22)