The Calling is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter, released by Zoë Records on March 6, 2007.

Like her previous release, she wrote every song on the album, which went to No.

Thom Jurek of AllMusic gave the album 4-out-of-5-stars and said: "Time will tell, of course, but in The Calling, Carpenter may have her finest moment yet; it also feels like an artistic rebirth.

These songs come from her marrow and the conviction she sings them with proves it.

All songs written by Mary Chapin Carpenter.