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Continue reading →: Work and Life
DId you know that in 13th century England, peasant families worked less than 150 days per year on their land? And pre-industrial servile laborers and miners worked about 28 hours a week for 180 days a year? The Ju/’hoansi people of the Kalahari, a hunter-gatherer society worked about 15 hours…
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Continue reading →: Rethinking “Doubting Thomas”
The story of “doubting Thomas” is a familiar one. If we make the story to be primarily about Thomas, I think we have missed a major point. As you look at the picture of Ernst Barlach’s sculpture, which figure is Jesus and which is Thomas? When it was evening on…
