Converting Nine to Five: Bringing Spirituality to Your Daily Work

A thought-provoking guide to a spiritual approach to daily work. --Booklist This compelling analysis of the spiritual dimensions of work confronts the alienation and lack of fulfillment that exist in epidemic proportions in the workplace. Haughey delves into the question of the lasting value of work and focuses on the relationship between work and justice work and grace and work and spirit. Haugheys book is a quiet energizer perfect for the person who is bored with work angry at his or her colleagues or disillusioned with the meaning of work. --America John C. Haughey SJ a well respected theologian and lecturer is a senior research fellow at Georgetown Universitys Woodstock Theological Center in Washington D.C. He has served as an appointee of the Vaticans Council on Christian Unity for seventeen years and has held chairs at Marquette University John Carroll University and Seton Hall University. He is the author of Housing Heavens Fire (2002) and editor of Revisiting the Idea of Vocation (2004).