Resources for Moving "Beyond Balance"

My short piece “Beyond Work-Life Balance” is has just been published in the Fall 2007 issue of CHURCH Magazine.  It argues that “balance” imagery can actually feed into what Gaudium et Spes termed “among the more serious errors of our age”—the “split between the faith which many profess and their daily lives.” (n.43), and gives a few examples of how a more integrative spirituality might play out in the context of large law firm practice.  All part of a larger project—and life’s work!—to explore the spiritual resources which might help expand the horizons of how lawyers think about time and the role of work in their lives, also developed in Part-Time Paradox).

Church Magazine, a quarterly on pastoral theology and ministry, is a terrific resource.  It is put out by the National Pastoral Life Center, whose projects also include the Catholic Common Ground Initiative and the Social Action Roundtable. 

Amy