“What is Your Vocational Calling?” Essay 

• COMM 494 – Senior Seminar (Senior Year, Spring 2025)
• Summary: I have come a long way from my freshman core essay, and now I have a definition of vocation that is no longer limited to my job. Instead, it is my calling and how I am to live in the world. I discuss the shaping forces behind my becoming a storyteller and a storycrafter. Instead of a single job, I have a much broader view of vocation that I trace and connect back to a myriad of courses and experiences during my time at Wheaton College.
• Learning Outcome 7

“What is the contribution of a Christian Liberal Arts Education to your Fulfillment of your Vocation?” Essay 

• COMM 494 – Senior Seminar (Senior Year, Spring 2025)
• Summary: Here I talk about the connection between the Christian liberal arts and the development of vocation, with a specific analysis of my own development and formation while at Wheaton College. The liberal arts are concerned with the development of the whole person, and I talk about how they shaped my understanding of myself as a storyteller and a storycrafter. With the mindset and skill set from both a liberal arts education and my experience in Workout at Wheaton, I have been profoundly shaped for story.
• Learning Outcome 8

“What Communication Principles and/or Practices Will Contribute to Living Your Vocation?” Essay 

• COMM 494 – Senior Seminar (Senior Year, Spring 2025)
• Summary: The liberal arts have helped prime me for cultural engagement–understanding the cultural context behind that engagement, as well as learning about the importance of the style of communication. In this piece, I discuss how we need communication to engage the world well. This is why being a communicator is so important for people in general as well as storytellers specifically; without communication, we would lose the gift of story and the ability to engage with one another in redemptive ways.
• Learning Outcome 8