The idea that all good work is holy work was revolutionary. The Reformation toppled a vocational hierarchy that had placed monks, nuns, and priests at the top and everyone else below. The Reformers taught that a farmer may worship God by being a good farmer and that a parent changing diapers could be as near to Jesus as the pope. This was a scandal. Even now, often subconsciously, we tend to rate some jobs as holier or more spiritual than others. Whether we place missionaries, social activists, artists, the rich, the powerful, the famous, or the hypereducated at the top, we tend to value
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