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Retirement for Those Who Can’t

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Christianity Today

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.3622 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Christianity Today’s March 2019 cover story examined how retirement fits into the Christian vision of faith and work and how assumptions about what retirement looks like are changing for many Americans. We looked at the increasingly diverse ways that Christians are leveraging their post-career years for the good of their families, churches, and communities. A lot of readers wrote in to express appreciation for covering a topic that really matters to so many, but we also got a fair number of responses that were concerned that our take on retirement was too narrow. One reader, Rodney, summed it up this way: "Your article 'Saving Retirement' in the March issue was a good summary of the situation facing retirees today. However, most of the examples of retirees doing something purposeful after retirement were people who had held leading positions in their field of work with presumably large salaries. The article definitely needed to portray what some ‘ordinary workers’ have gone on to do." We agreed with Rodney that there is a much broader picture of post-work life that needs to be acknowledged. Do Christian understandings of work and aging accommodate those who can’t afford to retire? Rev. Amy Ziettlow, pastor of Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Decatur, Illinois, and author, with Naomi Cahn, of Homeward Bound: Modern Families, Elder Care, and Loss, joined theology editor Caleb Lindgren and editor in chief Mark Galli to talk about the hopeful vision for retirement she sees in her working-class church community and her recommendations for how retirement-aged individuals and their churches can best partner with each other during the autumn years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's Wednesday, March 20th, and you're listening to Quick to Listen, where we go beyond

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hashtags and hot takes to discuss a major cultural event.

0:46.5

Today, we'll be discussing the changing face of retirement and how that affects people

0:50.5

across the income spectrum.

1:03.0

Music affects people across the income spectrum. Hello, I'm Caleb Lindgren, Associate Theology Editor at Christianity Today, sitting in for Morgan Lee.

1:08.5

I'm also joined by Mark Galley, our editor-in-chief.

1:11.0

Hello, Mark.

1:11.6

Hello.

1:12.6

How are you doing this morning?

1:13.7

I am doing well because not only am I looking forward to our Lord coming back again,

1:18.4

the weather indicates that spring is coming as well.

1:21.6

Yes, which is always good news in Illinois at this.

1:25.5

So I know my hope should rest on Jesus and nothing less, but I'm just a mortal human being who's also looking forward to better weather.

1:32.9

Yeah, this might be the first week in a while that we've had average temperature above freezing, which I'm always in favor of.

1:39.1

Exactly.

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