This is a piece I wrote for BIZCAT 360 following a conversation on the weekly Friendship Bench. Here's an excerpt:

I was involved in a discussion recently, prompted by this question: What’s the difference between a calling and a purpose? I think the question was supposed to have been perceived as loaded. But the distinction seemed clear and elementary to me. (More on that shortly.) I was much more curious about why so many people seem so curious about callings and purposes these days.

As you might imagine, there are more books on the topics than you could shake the proverbial stick at. They’re written of course, by people who could find neither their callings nor their purposes. But they discovered, thanks to our pathological gullibility and our incorrigible lack of self-faith, that they could make very handsome livings telling us how to find ours.

You can read the entire piece here.