TY - BOOK AU - Schwehn,Mark R. AU - Bass,Dorothy C. TI - Leading lives that matter: what we should do and who we should be SN - 0802829317 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - BT 738.5 .L43 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Grand Rapids, Mich. PB - W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. KW - Vocation KW - Christianity KW - Work KW - Religious aspects KW - Meaning (Philosophy) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; What makes a life significant?; William James --; I resolve to become a jungle doctor; Albert Schweitzer --; From The ethics of authenticity; Charles Taylor --; Solitude of self; Elizabeth Cady Stanton --; From Nicomachean ethics; Aristotle --; The vigor of life; Theodore Roosevelt --; Matthew 20:20-28 --; Making the match : career choice; Lee Hardy --; Choosing; Gary D. Badcock --; The place of responsibility; Dietrich Bonhoeffer --; Vocation; Frederick Buechner --; Vocation as grace; Will Campbell --; Learning in war-time; C.S. Lewis --; From Nicomachean ethics; Aristotle --; From The Iliad; Homer --; The martyrdom of Perpetua --; From Therese; Dorothy Day --; Three biographical sketches : Ray Kroc, Iris Chang, Joseph S. ("Smiley") Landrum --; Elegy written in a country churchyard; Thomas Gray --; From Just work; Russell Muirhead --; Why work?; Dorothy L. Sayers --; Two tramps in mud time; Robert Frost --; To be of use; Margaret Piercy --; The door in the wall; H.G. Wells --; From The Sabbath; Abraham Joshua Heschel --; The world is too much with us; and, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey; William Wordsworth --; Friendship and vocation; Gilbert Meilaender --; The changing nature of work in the United States : implications for vocation, ethics, and faith; Robert Wuthnow --; Generativity crises of my own; Bonnie Miller-McLemore --; There's no place like work; Arlie Russell Hochschild --; Defining a doctor; Abigail Zuger --; The village blacksmith; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --; An invisible web; Wendell Berry --; Two eulogies for Yitzhak Rabin; King Hussein and Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof --; Living like weasels; Annie Dillard --; The choice; William Butler Yeats --; Filial relations; Jane Addams --; Martha Nussbaum, interviewed by Bill Moyers --; Matthew 25:14-30 : the parable of the talents --; On his blindness; John Milton --; From Grounding for the metaphysics of morals; Immanuel Kant --; From The life of Charlotte Bront�e; Elizabeth Gaskell --; From the screenplay of Good Will Hunting; Matt Damon and Ben Affleck --; Sonny's blues; James Baldwin --; The undeclared major; Will Weaver --; Two kinds; Amy Tan --; From The autobiography of Malcolm X; Malcolm X with Alex Haley --; From The giver; Lois Lowry --; I hear them-- calling; Vincent Harding --; The ancient people; Willa Cather --; From A dresser of sycamore trees; Garret Keizer --; Invictus; William Ernest Henley --; Passed on; Thomas Lynch --; The last hours; Stephen Dunn --; The Book of Jonah --; A letter to his wife, 1861; Sullivan Ballou --; Weddings; Yevgeny Yevtushenko --; From Thoughts in solitude; Thomas Merton --; The road not taken; Robert Frost --; Composing a life story; Mary Catherine Bateson --; From Jayber Crow; Wendell Berry --; From East of Eden; John Steinbeck --; An American life story; Dan McAdams --; Robert McG. Thomas, 60, chronicler of unsung lives; Michael T. Kaufman --; The death of Ivan Ilych; Leo Tolstoy ER -