Getting Work Right: Labor and Leisure in a Fragmented World

If we don't get Sunday right, we won't get Monday—or any day of the workweek—right.

The divided life is a temptation so built into our society, we may not even recognize it. Yet most of us fall prey to it. We either undervalue work, resenting it as simply a job, or we overvalue it as an identity-defining career.

Michael Naughton, drawing on his background in both business and theology, proposes that the key to finding balance is another important human activity: leisure.

In light of leisure—no...