11.19.2009

Some Puritan Advice for the Unemployed

Idle Hands: Some Puritan Advice for the Unemployed

Excerpt:

More than just an annual turkey fest, the Puritans gave America a pedagogy of work and an attitude toward life that upsets the modern notion that a person's occupation equals his value. A man's worth, the Puritans might advise the unemployed Steve Lee, lay in his service to God and to his fellow man, not in titles or financial portfolios. Rather than seeing life as a series of random events, the Puritan's belief in Providence imputed a profound sense of a loving God's purpose for him, a purpose that left very little room for despair.


Comment: Worthwhile from the Wall Street Journal

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