It is no accident that you were born into this moment in history. There is something here, now, for you to offer a broken world. Not only has God gifted you with talents and passions, he has called you to a specific time and place that, if you allow them, will also speak to your life’s calling. The challenge before all of us is to choose to root ourselves in a particular place, over a significant period of time, so that we might see deep investment yield fruit.

My friend Scott Evans knows the value of developing a “theology of place” when it comes to ministry. He is currently a chaplain at University College Dublin and a minister in the Church of Ireland. In our discussion today we touch upon the blessings of rejecting many of the cultural messages that surround us which falsely promise bigger and better things elsewhere, to instead see the beautiful invitation laid before us in the very place we find ourselves now.