{"id":1689,"date":"2022-04-12T10:52:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T15:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/lutherancenter\/?page_id=1689"},"modified":"2023-12-08T15:15:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T21:15:38","slug":"vocation-definition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/lutherancenter\/vocation-at-st-olaf\/vocation-definition\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocation Definition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p><b>Vocation is:\u00a0 <\/b><b><i>Life on Purpose.\u00a0For the Common Good.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At St. Olaf, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vocation<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is who you are called to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">be<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and what you are called to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">do<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> across all the parts of your life \u2013 not only in professional work, but also in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">your<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> family and friendships, community engagements, relationship with the earth, search for meaning, and pursuit of justice.\u00a0 It\u2019s living your life <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on purpose<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, directed toward both your personal flourishing and the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">common good<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your vocation is something that you both discover and shape intentionally, as you nurture your gifts and talents (\u201cexcel in the liberal arts\u201d), reflect on your core commitments (\u201cexamine faith and values\u201d), and respond to the needs of neighbor and planet (\u201cin an inclusive, globally engaged community\u201d).\u00a0 Because life is dynamic, so is vocation, which is why the St. Olaf mission invites you to \u201cexplore\u201d rather than \u201cfind\u201d it.\u00a0 Because your commitments, your community, and the global context will continue to change, your vocational discernment is a lifelong journey.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The understanding of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vocation<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as something that is relevant to everyone, encompasses the whole of life, and is grounded in love of neighbor, is one of the distinctive contributions of\u00a0 Lutheran\u00a0 tradition.\u00a0 But it is also embraced by people who orient very differently around religion, both those who identify with other faiths and those who identify as non-religious, and this diversity has deepened and enriched the scholarship and practice of vocational discernment both within and beyond the college. As a religiously-inclusive institution affiliated with a denomination committed to inter-religious engagement, St. Olaf affirms this inclusive approach to conceptualizing and exploring \u201cmeaningful vocation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vocation is:\u00a0 Life on Purpose.\u00a0For the Common Good. At St. Olaf, vocation is who you are called to be and what you are called to do across all the parts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1721,"featured_media":0,"parent":1666,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1689","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/lutherancenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/lutherancenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/lutherancenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/lutherancenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/lutherancenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/lutherancenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2825,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/lutherancenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1689\/revisions\/2825"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/lutherancenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/lutherancenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}