Last week, I read Eugene McCarraher’s wave-making The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. It was absolutely beautiful, and powerfully convicting read. I read it mostly to stay in the theological know, but I found so many of the ideas I’ve encountered in other books touched upon in McCarraher’s vast survey. And so many of the personal questions of discernment I have wrestled with as an adult are addressed in his work. To wit: what does it mean to be an artist, when the common wisdom of one’s social class is that one should have a “career”? It is difficult or perhaps impossible to be an artist on LinkedIn, but that is a different post.
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Last week, I read Eugene McCarraher’s wave-making The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. It was absolutely beautiful, and powerfully convicting read. I read it mostly to stay in the theological know, but I found so many of the ideas I’ve encountered in other books touched upon in McCarraher’s vast survey. And so many of the personal questions of discernment I have wrestled with as an adult are addressed in his work. To wit: what does it mean to be an artist, when the common wisdom of one’s social class is that one should have a “career”? It is difficult or perhaps impossible to be an artist on LinkedIn, but that is a different post.