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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 speaker introduced this book, noting it argues that work provides unique meaning and purpose, contrary to the idea that work causes societal pain. Bonson made the case that separating one's identity from what they do is false, and a low view of work leads to disastrous policy proposals.

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I'd like to talk to you about a new book, Full Time, Work in the Meaning of Life by David Bonson.

— Episode: Ep. 1134 - The Election Is Only Over Whe...

Episode: Ep. 1134 - The Election Is Only Over When It’s Ove...

The speaker introduced this book, noting it argues that work provides unique meaning and purpose, contrary to the idea that work causes societal pain. Bonson made the case that separating one's identity from what they do is false, and a low view of work leads to disastrous policy proposals.

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I'd like to talk to you about a new book, Full Time, Work in the Meaning of Life by David Bonson.

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.

Bonson makes the case that our understanding of work and its role in our lives is deeply flawed.

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

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