What do you think about “quiet quitting“? Is it:
- a lazy, bored, don’t-do-more-than-you-have-to, take-the-money-and-run attitude toward work?
- a necessary self-care corrective to a workplace and culture in overdrive that pushes us to do more and more, faster and faster?
- “a step toward quitting on life” as Thrive founder Arianna Huffington has called it?
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I suppose quiet quitting can take any of these forms depending on the person and situation. And although the term may be relatively new, the experience of quiet quitting isn’t—including in the church.
Like the church member once active in ministry who gradually withdraws from leadership and then quietly stops volunteering altogether. Like those who used to participate regularly in worship Sunday after Sunday but never returned after the lifting of pandemic restrictions and are now worshipping elsewhere or not at all. Even pastors might exercise a form of quiet…
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