With a one-minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

In the first quarter of 2022, the Wall Street Journal recently reported, U.S. worker productivity fell in the steepest drop in 74 years.

This stat speaks not just to how much work is getting done, but also how much workers think their work matters.

According to one expert, prosperity for the whole country

depends on worker productivity, and in a world where many struggle with the meaning of it all,

many also struggle to find true meaning and significance in their work. There are two ways

that we miss the meaning of work. One is to idolize a job thinking that it will fulfill

us completely. The other is to reduce work to

something we all must suffer through, and so we should just give minimal effort. Christians have a

unique perspective that our work is a way of participating with God in His creation, working

for the flourishing of everything and everyone. Articulating and living that truth can make a big difference

in a culture like ours

that thinks life and work

have no meaning.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.