“Fish in the afternoon, criticize after dinner”
At the findings that Obamacare will take over 2 million jobs out of the economy, Democrats have been saying this is a good thing: Now, people will no longer have to work at unfulfilling jobs just to...
View ArticleLabor & Leisure
Labor Day heralds the end of summer vocations. Now the Fall begins and it’s back to work. For students and teachers like me, it has always meant getting serious again and going back to the classrooms...
View ArticleMaking America great again through vocation
Mark Hemingway excoriates the left’s denigration of work and says that the lack of respect for the working class is what drives Donald Trump’s popularity. And then he offers his proposal for making...
View ArticleMillennials and vocation
Barna has done a study of the millennial generation’s attitude towards work. Most do not see their careers as central to their identities (unlike Baby Boomers). Rather, their jobs are there to fund...
View ArticleWhere is our Calvin Coolidge?
We don’t need a president riding in on a white horse to solve our problems. We don’t need a charismatic figure like John F. Kennedy or Ronald Reagan. OK, I’d settle for a Reagan. But what we really...
View ArticleWork as Religion
For many people, work is their religion. Their work gives meaning to their lives, establishes their identity, guides their everyday actions, and is the locus for their hope. “What does it mean to have...
View ArticlePsychologists on Vocation
Even secularists today are talking about the importance of having a sense of “calling”; that is, a sense of vocation (a Latinate word that means, simply, “calling”). Many secularist treatments seem to...
View ArticleRestoring the Dignity of Physical Labor
The popular TV shows used to portray blue collar workers. (Ralph Kramden the bus driver; Laverne and Shirley in the beer factory; Al Bundy selling shoes.) Today TV characters tend to be doctors,...
View ArticleSimone Weil on Vocation
Simone Weil was a French philosopher and convert to Christianity who wrote profoundly about the value of work. In emphasizing how in our labor we love and serve our neighbor and how God's love works...
View ArticleThe Mindset that Produced Slavery
To enslave another human being requires a certain mindset. And because slavery has been so widespread in human history, that mindset must be easy to slip into. A scholar sees elements of the mindset...
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