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Virtues & Vocations

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V&V is a forum hosted by the Institute for Social Concerns at Notre Dame about cultivating character in professional education. RT does not equal endorsement. socialconcerns.nd.edu/virtues/

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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The new issue of Virtues & Vocations: Higher Education for Human Flourishing is here! With beautiful art from Fr. Arthur Poulin and thoughtful essays from educators, mathematicians & more, we're addressing individual and shared responsibility for the common good. Read it here: bit.ly/4ACe9ZI
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
What does it mean to teach for joy? In Virtues & Vocations Magazine, Abraham Nussbaum reflects on medicine, mentorship, and the relationships that make us capable of attending to one another with courage, wisdom, and care. Read more at bit.ly/4oVtT4L
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
What first taught you to pay attention? In the latest Virtues & Vocations magazine, J. Drew Lanham reflects on wonder, formation, and the early lessons found in sunrise, sunset, and birdsong. Read more at bit.ly/43pVmBx
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
What goods are shaping the life you are building? For Virtues & Vocations, Jennifer Frey reflects on Augustine, Aquinas, and the joy that gives meaning to sacrifice. Read the article at bit.ly/4dwFm5d
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Can joy sustain us in a world aching with anxiety and violence? For Virtues & Vocations Magazine, Gary Haugen of International Justice Mission explores the relationship between joy, fear, and the long work of seeking justice. Read the article: bit.ly/4d6yWuW
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
What restores a sense of purpose in our work? In the latest Virtues & Vocations magazine, Cameron Kim reflects on joy as the spark that sustains curiosity, learning, and human flourishing. Read the article at bit.ly/3Pndmcj
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
What if joy is essential -- not optional? Angela Williams Gorrell reflects on why joy matters more than we think in the latest edition of Virtues & Vocations Magazine. Read the full article at bit.ly/4eiGuLY
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
What if asking “why” became second nature? In the latest Virtues & Vocations magazine, Francis Su @mathyawp.bsky.social reflects on the joy of contemplation—and the kind of thinking that deepens our humanity. Read more at bit.ly/4mw7U2U
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
What happens when people see that their work matters? In Virtues & Vocations, Laura Dunham reflects on the joy that emerges through shared purpose, institutional renewal, and the collective work of becoming. Read more: bit.ly/3PO5Abw
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
What if joy isn’t a luxury, but essential to human flourishing? For Virtues & Vocations, Robert Emmons explores how the emerging science of joy is reshaping how we understand well-being, connection, and the good life. Read more: bit.ly/4dYZ1N8
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
In Virtues & Vocations, we sit down with Alain de Botton to explore life’s biggest questions—meaningful work, love, happiness, and how we learn to live well. What might it mean to take these questions seriously? Read more: bit.ly/40SRlEw
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
At a time of rising loneliness, Sarah Schnitker asks: Are we teaching gratitude in a way that reconnects us to one another? Read more at Virtues & Vocations Magazine: bit.ly/4tZAIo0
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
In conversation with Virtues & Vocations magazine, Fr. Greg Boyle of Homeboy Industries reflects on healing trauma and “infusing hope in folks for whom hope is foreign.” Read the full interview at bit.ly/4rdvKlR
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
“Beauty is a foretaste of the promised good, and a sign that hope is not in vain.” For Virtues & Vocations magazine, Brandon Vaidyanathan reflects on how beauty draws us toward hope, justice, and longing for what is yet to come. Read more: bit.ly/4rFWg7f
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
In the latest Virtues & Vocations magazine, Satyan Devadoss explores what happens when mathematics is reclaimed as embodied work—not just abstract thought. Read more at bit.ly/3M4yqTc
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
What happens when trusted systems fail? For Guru Madhavan, engineering’s meaning lies not in perfection -- but in the rhythm of building, breaking, and beginning again. Read his full reflection in Virtues & Vocations Magazine: bit.ly/3YQrLz4
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Teaching is never predictable. For Virtues & Vocations Magazine, Barbara Stengel reflects on the deep, relational work of education—where frustration and joy exist side by side as students grow in their own time. Read the full article here: bit.ly/3NiXXsg
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
“Vocation is not an already-booked appointment that one might miss…” For Virtues & Vocations magazine, Chris Higgins explores how purpose unfolds in relationship with the world — not as a fixed endpoint, but an evolving, lived journey. Read more at bit.ly/4qiNtrC
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
As we close out the year, we’re reflecting on what gives work its meaning. For Angela Hubbard, who cares for our buildings and community, it's purpose and gratitude. Read more reflections at bit.ly/3L50yFq
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Dan Graff, Director of the Higgins Labor Program at the Institute for Social Concerns at @notredame.bsky.social, reflects on his late father's work, teachings, and how we might envision "good work" in his latest for Virtues & Vocations Magazine. Read his full essay for bit.ly/48L4B1h
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
In our metrics-driven world, Karen Bohlin offers a quiet invitation to slow down – and let poetry restore what busyness often erodes. Read the full piece in our Virtues & Vocations magazine here: bit.ly/3Y69yNk
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Join us today at 12:00 P.M. EST for a fabulous conversation with author Karen Swallow Prior on finding your vocation. Audience Q&A will follow. Register here: bit.ly/3XoADev
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Virtues & Vocations presents Karen Swallow Prior on Vocation. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
As part of the Virtues & Vocations series Conversations on Character & the Common Good, we are pleased to welcome Karen Swallow Prior to discuss her new book, You Have a Calling. This webinar will tak...
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
As we head into Thanksgiving weekend, enjoy this reflection on what makes her work meaningful from Maria Vazquez, the Superintendent, Orange County Public Schools (Florida). Read more in our Virtues & Vocations magazine: bit.ly/4pAxwfv
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
In the latest Virtues & Vocations magazine, Dr. Ricardo Nuila of Baylor College of Medicine reflects on the legacy of care passed down in his family and how his grandfather’s patient-first ethos shapes his work today. Read the full article at: bit.ly/48ntMIk
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
In the latest Virtues & Vocations magazine, Anna Moreland of @VillanovaU reflects on friendship, community, and the quiet, interior work of cultivating true leisure. Read the full article in the Virtues & Vocations magazine at bit.ly/3WRpW3V
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
For our latest edition of the Virtues & Vocations magazine, we asked "What makes your work for meaningful?" For education and artist Jason Wesaw, its born from love and visual arts. Read more at bit.ly/4opGxaZ
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Integrating Virtue Together is a community of practice for faculty across institutions and disciplines to cultivate virtues through a course in 2026-2027. Chosen faculty will attend a working conference at Notre Dame & receive a stipend. Full CFP: drive.google.com/file/d/1jA0o...
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
What makes an engineering job ethical? In her latest for Virtues & Vocations, Rosalyn W. Berne calls on educators to help students articulate their values—and chart career paths that reflect them. Read here: bit.ly/4nPe5z3
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
In this clip from our latest Virtues & Vocations webinar, pediatric neurosurgeon David Sandberg, MD reflects on how he approaches difficult conversations — and how he trains future physicians to do the same with empathy, honesty, and care. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtBx...
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Virtues & Vocations presents "Having Difficult Conversations" with David Sandberg, MD
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
What are the virtues necessary to sustain the practice of medicine? Join us for a lively conversation about courage, love, compassion, and hope with David Sandberg, MD. There will be time for audience questions. Register: notredame.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Virtues & Vocations presents David Sandberg, author of Brain and Heart. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
As part of the Virtues & Vocations series Conversations on Character & the Common Good, we are pleased to welcome David Sandberg, MD, author of Brain and Heart. This webinar will take place at noon Ea...
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Read the piece "What Makes Your Work Meaningful?" in the latest issue of Virtues & Vocations, including reflections from Rana Awdish, Angela Hubbard, Guru Madhavan, Maria F. Vazquez, and Jason Wesaw. socialconcerns.nd.edu/research/vir...
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
“Wonder is not incidental to a life worth working—it is foundational.” In the latest Virtues & Vocations magazine, Michelle Weise explores how courage and humility can build a meaningful working life – especially in "the messy middle" of things. Read here: bit.ly/484o1jj
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Chris Higgins, Chair of the Department of Formative Education at @bostoncollege.bsky.social, reminds us: “Our working lives are one of our best resources for figuring out who we are and what we stand for.” Watch the clip: bit.ly/47VlWGb
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Virtues & Vocations presents "Ways Work Shapes Who We Are" with Chris Higgins
Chris Higgins is the Chair of the Department of Formative Education at Boston College and the author of Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education. Virtues & Vocations is a national forum for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. Virtues & Vocations hosts faculty workshops and monthly webinars, and engages issues of character, professional identity and moral purpose through our publications. virtuesvocations.org
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
In our new edition of Virtues & Vocations, Zena Hitz challenges us to consider the meaning and value of work. "Something seems to be wrong with the traditional argument of work and leisure." Read more: bit.ly/4gsmaH3
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
We hope you will join us Monday Sept 22 at noon Eastern for a conversation with General Stanley McChrystal. There will be time for audience Q&A. Register: notredame.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
In this clip from our recent webinar, Guru Madhavan of The U.S. National Academy of Engineering challenges us to rethink where we find purpose in work: “It is in this duty-bound, diligent, otherwise boring enterprise that keeps the world going.” Watch now: bit.ly/3K6tMCU
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Virtues & Vocations presents "Duty & Meaning in Work" with Guru Madhavan
Guru Madhavan is the Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and Senior Director of Programs, U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Virtues & Vocations is a national forum for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. Virtues & Vocations hosts faculty workshops and monthly webinars, and engages issues of character, professional identity and moral purpose through our publications. virtuesvocations.org
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The new issue of Virtues & Vocations: Higher Education for Human Flourishing is here! With beautiful art and thoughtful essays from educators, engineers, physicians & more, we're tackling the question of what makes work meaningful, ethical, and balanced. bit.ly/41My74p
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Virtues & Vocations kicked off the semester with a fantastic conversation between Chris Higgins of @bostoncollege.bsky.social and Guru Madhavan of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering on meaningful work in today’s world. Watch the full webinar here: bit.ly/4nj06kj
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Conversations on Character and the Common Good: "Meaningful Work"
Chris Higgins is the Chair of the Department of Formative Education at Boston College. Guru Madhavan is the Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and Senior Director of Programs, U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Virtues & Vocations is a national forum for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. Virtues & Vocations hosts faculty workshops and monthly webinars, and engages issues of character, professional identity and moral purpose through our publications. virtuesvocations.org
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
We are thrilled to kick off our monthly webinar series with two scholars who wrote for the latest issue of our magazine around the theme of meaningful work. Join us Aug 25 at noon. There will be time for audience questions. notredame.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
To practice true generosity, we must start with ourselves. Melissa Fitzpatrick writes on self-gift, radical hospitality, and the vocation of care – inward and outward – in Virtues & Vocations Magazine. Read the full article here: bit.ly/4mqbURZ
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
We are thrilled to kick off our monthly webinar series with two scholars who wrote for the latest issue of our magazine around the theme of meaningful work. Join us Aug 25 at noon. There will be time for audience questions. notredame.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
“With Google and then the emergence of AI, the old model of just conveying information was increasingly irrelevant and obsolete.” Greg Jones, President of Belmont University, calls for a reimagining of education centered on character and formation. Watch now:
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Virtues & Vocations presents "The Purpose of Higher Education" with Greg Jones
A clip from our webinar with Belmont University president Greg Jones. Virtues & Vocations is a national forum for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. Virtues & Vocations hosts faculty workshops and monthly webinars, and engages issues of character, professional identity and moral purpose through our publications. virtuesvocations.org
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Generosity is like a muscle -- it takes time and habit to grow. In our Virtues & Vocations magazine, @snellherzog of @IUPhilanthropy explores how small acts of giving shape a life of purpose and contribution. Read the full piece: bit.ly/4mfEJAt
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
“We need to expose students to more real-life situations of human beings at work...” Author & educator Parker Palmer reflects on why formation must go beyond the classroom — and into the dilemmas of daily life. Watch now: bit.ly/40WccHw
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
“The U.S. is facing an epidemic of loneliness unparalleled in our country’s history.” @Baylor professor Sarah A. Schnitker writes on disconnection, mental health, and the need to help students reconnect with one another and the transcendent. Read more: bit.ly/4llBQN7
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
“The liberal arts is not learning for learning's sake—it's learning to live a life of meaning and contribution.” Clayton Spencer, former president of Bates College, on why we must embrace the deeper value of liberal arts education. bit.ly/3U8CgLJ
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Virtues & Vocations presents "Learning to Live a Life of Meaningful Contribution" w/ Clayton Spencer
A clip from our webinar with former Bates College president Clayton Spencer. Virtues & Vocations is a national forum for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. Virtues & Vocations hosts faculty workshops and monthly webinars, and engages issues of character, professional identity and moral purpose through our publications. virtuesvocations.org
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
What if we viewed education not as a transaction, but as an act of generosity? Laurie L. Patton explores how reframing education this way might transform how we relate—to ourselves, and to others. Read more at our Virtues & Vocations magazine: bit.ly/45qIpZU
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
We train students for work — but do we help them ask what work is worth doing? Chris Higgins, Chair of the Department of Formative Education @bostoncollege.bsky.social ege, challenges us to consider what’s missing in our approach to vocational formation. Watch now: bit.ly/4m7QSaF
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Virtues & Vocations presents "Vocational Formation" with Chris Higgins
Chris Higgins is the Chair of the Department of Formative Education at Boston College and the author of Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education. Virtues & Vocations is a national forum for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. Virtues & Vocations hosts faculty workshops and monthly webinars, and engages issues of character, professional identity and moral purpose through our publications. virtuesvocations.org
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
“When lives become interwoven, our rougher edges are smoothed by healthy friction.” Pediatrician and professor Lester Liao reflects on how genuine community shapes character and builds moral clarity: bit.ly/3IYEMS9
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Virtues & Vocations @virtuevocations.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
“How do we have any sense of social solidarity?” Angel Adams Parham, associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, explores Aristotle’s idea of civic friendship—and why friendship might be key to restoring national unity. Watch now: bit.ly/3GVuj9C
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Virtues & Vocations presents: "Civic Friendship" with Angel Adams Parham
Angel Adams Parham is associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. Virtues & Vocations is a national forum for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. Virtues & Vocations hosts faculty workshops and monthly webinars, and engages issues of character, professional identity and moral purpose through our publications. virtuesvocations.org
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