Commitment to Our Calling - Rev. Dr. Rodger Nishioka

About this episode

Rev. Dr. Rodger Nishioka discusses the difference between finding a calling and a career, emphasizing a deeper, moral response to life's injustices.

“The thing everybody knows from finding a calling is that it's quite different from finding a career. In the calling mentality, you're not living on the ego level of your consciousness—working because the job pays well or makes life convenient. You're down in the substrate. Some activity or some injustice has called to the deepest level of your nature and demanded an active response.” –David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life We are one church worshiping each Sunday at t...

People in this episode

Guest: Rev. Dr. Rodger Nishioka

Topics covered

• calling
• career
• spirituality
• moral life
• active response

Keywords

• calling
• career
• spirituality
• David Brooks
• moral life
• active response

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

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