Vocation

Exploring Vocation with Phoebe Edmonds

17 Jun 2025

Phoebe Edmonds, a Community Theatre Facilitator and Director, joins us to share her experiences.

 

Can you tell us a bit about yourself?

Hello! I am Phoebe (she/her) a community theatre practitioner. I am also the Movement Organiser for SCM, but today I am going to chat a...

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Exploring Vocation with Meryl Mathew

10 Jun 2025

Meryl Mathew, an Administrator and Finance Assistant for USPG, has shared her experience with us.

 

Can you tell us a bit about yourself?

Hi! My name is Meryl Mathew and I’m from Kerala, a state in South India. I am 29 years old and a Catholic Christian by faith. I moved...

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Exploring Vocation with Sophie Mitchell

27 May 2025

Sophie Mitchell, the Events and Programme Organiser for Faith & Belief Forum, has shared her experiences with us.

 

Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?

Hi there – I’m Sophie! I was a member of SCM as a student and recent graduate living in Bristol, and then I...

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Exploring Vocation with Thomas Niblett

27 May 2025

Thomas Niblett, a Care Assistant are L'Arche, shares his experience of vocation with us.

Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?

My name is Thomas, 22, I graduated last year and was a member of SCM Cambridge. 

What role do you currently have?

I currently work...

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Exploring Vocation with Emma Temple

20 May 2025

Emma Temple, who works in Communications and Marketing, shares her experience of vocation with us.

Can you tell us a bit about yourself?

I’m a Christian, a creative, and a campaigner, living in Leeds. I moved here for university in 2012 (and thankfully found SCM in the process...

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Vocation, Vocation, Vocation: Christianity and Careers

28 Jun 2023

Almost three years on from finishing university, I find myself working for a university careers service. I certainly didn’t imagine that I would be in this position back when I graduated – in fact, I never used the careers services at either of the universities I attended (don’t tell my boss...

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Called To Be... Feylyn's Discovery

6 Jun 2022

I spent much of my childhood as a young carer for my disabled mother. It was a profoundly isolating, frightening, and traumatic experience, yet God has been so faithful to take care of me and my family.

Growing up in the United States, I didn’t meet any other young carers. I wasn’t even...

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Called to Be: Emilia's Journey

30 May 2022

Growing up I thought vocation meant becoming a vicar or another church sort of job, whereas what I realised I wanted to study and work in was engineering (specifically motorsport). As I learnt more about engineering whilst at university, I felt like it was going to be more than just a job - more...

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Called to Be: Vocations Resource

30 May 2022

Vocation refers to work that a person is instinctively drawn to, combining a sense of suitability and purpose. Though typically associated with a religious calling such as joining the priesthood, vocation can also be related to non-religious work (either paid or voluntary). The idea of vocation...

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Movement 163: What Is Vocation?

21 Jan 2021

Our long read article comes from Gill Frigerio, researcher in career development at the University of Warwick. She gives us lots of helpful ways to think about career, calling, and the difficulties of fitting together our work and our faith. Here is a small section of her insightful...

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