“God commands radical other-centeredness, and in this profession we rehearse patterns of self-interestedness.” - spot on, same in my workplace. You get plaudits for virtuosic displays of self-interestedness, especially if you’re efficiently deploying relational capital in the process. Definitely has eroded some of my own Christian intuitions since moving to NY - this is a great article, it’s good to reflect on how that happens and how we need to resist it. Thanks for writing Allison!
“God commands radical other-centeredness, and in this profession we rehearse patterns of self-interestedness.” - spot on, same in my workplace. You get plaudits for virtuosic displays of self-interestedness, especially if you’re efficiently deploying relational capital in the process. Definitely has eroded some of my own Christian intuitions since moving to NY - this is a great article, it’s good to reflect on how that happens and how we need to resist it. Thanks for writing Allison!
Thank you for reading everything Jay 😄