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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

This book argues against the idea that work causes societal pain, asserting instead that work provides unique meaning and purpose in our lives and that a low view of work leads to disastrous cultural attitudes.

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In a time where work is being heralded as the cause of societal pain, depression and anxiety, full time is screaming the exact opposite, that we're created to work and that our work provides unique me...

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This book argues against the idea that work causes societal pain, asserting instead that work provides unique meaning and purpose in our lives and that a low view of work leads to disastrous cultural attitudes.

"

In a time where work is being heralded as the cause of societal pain, depression and anxiety, 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.

There's no shortage of books telling people to work less, to find balance, to think less of career and more of things that bring them happiness.

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.

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