labor
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Back to Work
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6 min read
Episode 37 of the Make Saints podcast
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Your boss wants you to hate quiet quitting
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3 min read
Quiet quitting is about labor, life, and the value people bring to their work. The ones who want you to hate it sign checks.
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Full Employment and Other Failures of Words
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4 min read
The first problem with the way we talk about our economy is that we use phrases that don’t mean what we think. The second is worse.
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The Dignity of Work
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2 min read
The dignity of work is a strange phrase. It is almost never used as an abstract truth, though it intends to be. Otherwise we would hear related truths: The dignity of leisure. …of sleep. …of walking your dog. Or even more telling:The dignity of driving while black. …of sleeping on the sidewalk. …of walking in…
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We often fear the impact of faith on politics, or of politics on faith. The real problem is that we think faith isn’t political. May 13 | Luke 9:10-17 One of the easiest ways to settle most disputes is to say we shouldn’t talk about politics. It short circuits most conversations. Even the word sullies…
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Dangerous Expectations
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4 min read
When we tell stories, we take shortcuts. We generalize, connect, and get the audience to fill in the gaps. However, this can distort the truth.