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Why Tim Keller Wants You to Stay in That Job You Hate  This Is Our City

If you’re doing a lot of stuff that’s just useless, it’s only useless in the short term because in the long term you might be getting skills with which you might help people. You can go to a better company or start your own, but for a period of time, if you get too squeamish about doing useless stuff, you may never get good in your field at all. You’ll never be salt and light in it later. –Tim Keller

Does God Care Where You Work?  Relevant

 […] because we are made in the image of a Creator God, our work also has the power to bring good things to life. It is our choice how we put our gifts and skills to use. Using your time and skills that ultimately come from God, you can create something that can fulfill a societal need. –Kyle Stewart

How do you take down poverty? One toy block at a time.  AEI Videos

If we truly care about helping the poor, we should prioritize economic growth, which is the key to lifting whole societies from poverty to prosperity. In the AEI book “Economic Growth: Unleashing the Potential of Human Flourishing,” three professors provide a compelling moral and economic case for growth. The authors write: “Economic growth marks a boundary between wealth and human flourishing, on one side, and poverty and degradation, on the other.” –Values and Capitalism

 Danes Rethink a Welfare State Ample to a Fault.  The New York Times

The Danish model of government is close to a religion here, and it has produced a population that regularly claims to be among the happiest in the world. Even the country’s conservative politicians are not suggesting getting rid of [the current welfare state]. […] But few experts here believe that Denmark can long afford the current perks. -Suzanne Daley

What is Real Compassion?  FEE

In every election campaign, we hear the word “compassion” at least a thousand times. One political party supposedly has it, the other one doesn’t. Big government programs are evidence of compassion; cutting back government is a sign of cold-hearted meanness. By their misuse of the term for partisan advantage, politicians have thoroughly muddied up the real meaning of the word. –Lawrence Reed

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