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Full-Time Work and the Meaning of Life

David L. Bahnsen

We were created to work, and our work provides unique meaning and purpose in our lives. Yet today we are living in a crisis of apathy and ignorance regarding work’s theological and existential nature. There is no shortage of books pleading with people to work less, to find “balance,” to think less...

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The Ben Shapiro Show

The book argued that work provides unique meaning and purpose to human lives, countering the view that work causes societal pain, depression, and anxiety. Bonson contended that separating one's identity from what they do is false and that a low view of work leads to disastrous cultural attitudes.

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full-time is screaming the exact opposite, that we're created to work, and that our work provides unique meaning and purpose in our lives.

— Episode: Daily Wire Backstage: Turning Of The Tid...

Episode: Daily Wire Backstage: Turning Of The Tide

The book argued that work provides unique meaning and purpose to human lives, countering the view that work causes societal pain, depression, and anxiety. Bonson contended that separating one's identity from what they do is false and that a low view of work leads to disastrous cultural attitudes.

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full-time is screaming the exact opposite, that we're created to work, and that our work provides unique meaning and purpose in our lives.

He argues that the time has come to stop tiptoeing around the issues that matter, that separating one's identity from what they do is demonstrably false, and that a low view of work is leading to disastrous policy proposals and cultural attitudes.

It is in work of every kind that we discover our meaning and purpose.

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