tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post2713196243071143231..comments2024-03-25T02:43:49.115-05:00Comments on Karen Edmisten: Saying Yes, Saying No, and Jennifer's Our Father SeriesKaren Edmisten http://www.blogger.com/profile/04446214835142625161noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-47435647080987228062011-03-14T11:28:07.453-05:002011-03-14T11:28:07.453-05:00In Creed or Chaos, Dorothy L Sayers says:I believe...In Creed or Chaos, Dorothy L Sayers says:I believe, however that there is a Christian doctrine of work, very closely related to the doctrines of the creative energy of God and the divine image in man. The modern tendency seems to be to identify work with gainful employment; and this is, I maintain, the essential heresy at the back of the great economic fallacy which allows wheat and coffee to be burnt and fish to be used for manure while whole populations stand in need of food. The fallacy being that work is not the expression of man's creative energy in the service of society, but only something he does in order to obtain money and leisure."<br /><br />Mothers and other homemaker are truly creative workers since we don't work for a paycheck at all.Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05127202199834183627noreply@blogger.com