Steven Garber

Steven Garber is always working at the nexus of faith to vocation to culture. His work is the Washington Institute, which is most of all an embodied fellowship of folk in the Washington, DC area, but which also takes him among many people in many places. The author of The Fabric of Faithfulness, he has long been committed to working at the intersection of popular culture to political culture. Married to Meg, they are members of The Falls Church.

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Vocation Needs No Justification

The Story of a Story

If the good things in our world are truly gifts from God, then everything changes. Seeing the world in this way makes vocations of all sorts equally important to the work of God in the world, as each one contributes to the common good and the flourishing of life. Steve Garber of The Washington Institute reminds us that one's vocation--whatever it might be--is a conduit of God's grace to a wounded world.

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Restorers

The Legacy of John Stott

On Listening to the Word and the World at the Very Same Time

The late Reverend Dr. John Stott will be remembered as one of the most influential religious leaders of the 20th century. From evangelical think tanks to third world activists to the world's leading newspapers, there have been many who celebrated his intellectual prowess, his tender kindness, and his insistence that faith must be both theologically orthodox and socially engaged for the common good. Steven Garber reflects on a few of his personal memories and the legacy this great man has left.

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Vocation is Integral

Many people today see their job as nothing more than a paycheck. But is one’s calling more than that? Steven Garber says yes. He says there is an intimate connection between one’s faith, vocation, and culture. “Vocation is integral,” he says, “not incidental to the missio Dei.” Steven explains how most of what God is doing in the world happens in and through the vocations of his people.

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