Faith, Fiction, Friends

Today marks the end of The High Calling as an ongoing web site focused on work and faith. My personal path to The High Calling w...

I have no grandfather stories. My mother’s father died of a ruptured appendix when she was 12. My father’s father died when I was n...

Note: The editors at The High Calling are beginning to post final stories about the years we spent working on the online publication. I...

Original themed content at The High Calling is ending this week, with posts next week featuring each editor’s favorite post (I have to ...

For the last five years, I’ve been part of the editorial staff at The High Calling . We are a part-time, mostly virtual group, living i...

We recently watched a German mini-series (English subtitles) called Generation War , the story of five young friends in Berlin and what...

In the short time I worked for an urban school district as director of communications, I traveled to almost all of the city’s schools. ...

It was a tumultuous time, and a tumultuous place to work. A management firm had been hired by our urban school district to undertak...

I’ve spent 40 years in organizational communications, mostly in the corporate world. I’ve been on the firing line more times than I wan...

At the end of this week, I’ll be retiring from my day job, and I’ve been looking back at some thirty-seven years in corporate communica...

You make a mistake. You get yourself in over your head. You want the problem to just go away. But it doesn’t. It festers. And then one ...

The idea of a conflict of interest goes back to at least Babylonian times, when judges were forbidden from accepting bribes from people...

I’m in New Orleans for a treasured aunt’s funeral, sitting in my 88-year-old mother’s kitchen, some 650 miles away from my office. It’s...

I’m reading the newspaper one Tuesday morning, and there on the obituary page I see a photo with a story about a local retired execut...

The church had never quite had a short-term mission team like this one. A chemist. A retired engineer. And a PR guy / writer. Ou...