Michael Novak, 1933-2017

Michael Novak, 1933-2017

I received the sad news that Michael Novak died Thursday. Novak was an outstanding scholar and the author of numerous books, among them The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism and Business as a Calling:Work and the Examined Life. He was also a kind, thoughtful person and...
Going Backwards

Going Backwards

Most of us have had times when we seem to be going backwards in our career or in our work life. Or maybe times when we seemed to be dead in the water while everyone else was moving forward. But in these situations are we really moving backwards? Or might there be...
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Vocation

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Vocation

From a sermon preached by Ralph Waldo Emerson at the Second Church, Boston, October 21, 1832: How many men now regard their business as so much interruption, as so much injury to their religious life? Their religious character is something separate from their daily...