Episode three of this season of NetVUE’s podcast Callings features Bonnie Miller-McLemore, whose new book, Follow Your Bliss and Other Lies About Calling, brings forward the more difficult nuances and complexities of vocational discernment. Bonnie is the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair and Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture Emerita at Vanderbilt University. Nationally recognized for her leadership in women’s and childhood studies and pastoral and practical theologies, she has published eighteen books in these areas, as well as over a hundred chapters and journal articles. (She has also contributed a post to Vocation Matters: Follow Your Bliss? Bad Advice for Calling.)
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Higher education is facing a number of structural challenges, from a change in demographics to the rising costs of retaining full-time faculty. These challenges are particularly acute in small colleges and universities that offer a mentor-intensive liberal arts education but face strong competition and financial challenges. I sat down with Randy Bass, Vice Provost of Education at Georgetown University, to talk about his new book (co-authored with Bret Eynon)