In a well-meant attempt to ascribe value to work beyond the instrumental contribution to a financial bottom line, the faith and work movement has tended to describe work as having intrinsic value. This is a move in the right direction, but it may unintentionally oversimplify the discussions of the value of work. Instead, I recommend setting aside the category…
Work has value beyond the paycheck that comes every other week. Those of us writing about faith and work have written about that fact for years. It is important, however, that we argue about the goodness of work with value terminology that provides a range of meaning sufficient to differentiate between different types of value. Many people, when writing about…
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