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July/August 2005 |
UINDY professor's book probes meaning of work
Where does God's grace meet the daily grind?
That's the question tackled by Indianapolis-based clergyman, educator and author Gregory S. Clapper in his new book, Living Your Heart's Desire: God's Call and Your Vocation.
The book, his third for publisher Upper Room Books, blends ancient wisdom with pop culture to help people of all ages reconcile their faith and their work in meaningful ways.
An ordained United Methodist minister, Clapper is a professor of religion and philosophy at the United Methodist-related University of Indianapolis and one of the founding directors of the university's Lantz Center for Christian Vocations.
Clapper's two previous books for Upper Room are 1997's As If the Heart Mattered: A Wesleyan Spirituality and 1999's When the World Breaks Your Heart: Spiritual Ways of Living with Tragedy, informed by his experience as a National Guard chaplain at the scene of a 1989 airliner crash in Iowa.
The new book, published as a 128-page paperback, explores traditional Christian teaching on the concepts of personal freedom, vocation and God's calling, to help readers cut through the alienation and cynicism that can arise in today's working world. Throughout the narrative, Clapper draws examples from contemporary films and other familiar elements of popular culture.
"We must ask if the life we are living is a worthy expression of gratitude for what God has done for us," Clapper writes. "Our most important response is the shape of our entire life. It is, in short, our vocation."
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