#findinglivelihood

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Finding Livelihood is not at all common, it is beyond uncommon. It is not just good. It is nothing short of extraordinary and I doubt if you have ever read a book quite like it. It is wise, thoughtful, literary, poetic, full of stories - stories that are often exceptionally mundane but made exceptionally meaningful by Nancy Nordenson's extraordinary prose.

Byron Borger, Hearts & Minds Books; Booknotes Column – Invisibles: Celebrating the Unsung Heroes of the Workplace (David Zweig) AND Finding Livelihood: A Progress of Work and Leisure (Nancy Nordenson)

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Listen to a conversation about my new book, Finding Livelihood. Here’s an excerpt from the conversation:

“At that time [of my husband’s job loss] and the time that followed, I read much of what other people had to say about work and started to feel like we were the only ones wrestling with it, the only ones whose working lives didn't conform to the standards set forth by the experts. I felt like work is big and hard, even in the best of circumstances, yet the messages from these other sources suggest that, oh you’d only apply these principles it would be easier, or if your husband would take a quiz to find what his perfect job might be then that would be taken care of. These things didn’t seem to meet a need I had at the time. I think that there's a lot of good in the books that are out there now about work, and about work and faith, but there's not a lot of human companionship in those books.”

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Last days to enter prize drawing for spreading excerpts of Finding Livelihood. Details here.

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'Vocation' suggests freedom, meaning and joy; 'work,' a paycheck. A young Christian writer wonders how to have both, and finds in the notion of 'livelihood' a possible answer.

Today over at Duke Divinity School’s Faith & Leadership website, Allison Backous Troy writes about Finding Livelihood within the context of her own search for meaningful work and her friend’s search for work that “didn’t kill her soul.”

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This video is based on my book, Finding Livelihood: A Progress of Work and Leisure (Kalos Press). http://www.findinglivelihood.com. Music by Kimiko Ishizaka, pianist; Open Goldberg Variations by Bach; CC0; http://music.kimiko-piano.com/album/j....

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This video is based on my book, Finding Livelihood: A Progress of Work and Leisure (Kalos Press). http://www.findinglivelihood.com. Acoustic guitar, composed and performed by Berg Holmgren; http://www.bergholmgren.com.