Protestant work
Mar 29th, 2007 | By Ian Poulton | Category: SpiritualityThere was laughter at our church meeting this evening. A member talked about reusing materials again (and again!).
“Protestant prudence,” I laughed.
Another person at the meeting joked that “reduce, reuse, recycle”, was part of being Protestant.
Deep within our culture there is an ethos of making every cent count. What we regard as prudence is probably an excuse for plain meanness in some cases. Our catechism, which would have deeply imbued the thinking of those over 40, stressed the central place of work in our lives, it stressed our…