Luke Burgis, entrepreneur in residence, business, published an opinion piece with ChurchPop on personal vocation.
In 1999, the Lilly Endowment undertook a project to see what would happen if a culture of vocation was woven into the undergraduate experience in colleges and universities. Eighty-eight schools received over $225 million in grant money to implement a Program for the Theological Exploration of Vocation (PTEV). Students regularly engaged the fundamental questions “So what?” and “Who cares?” The results were extraordinary.
Participants in the program—students and faculty alike—expressed dramatically higher satisfaction with life after college than did those who did not across six key categories: work or graduate school life, finances, living arrangements, social life, love life, and spiritual life. Sadly, the results of this study are not widely known and its lessons never explored in the Catholic world. We want to change that.
In the book Unrepeatable: Cultivating the Unique Calling of Every Person, Dr. Joshua Miller and I explain what happens when we approach education through the lens of personal vocation. ...
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