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Seculosity: How Career, Parenting, Technology, Food, Politics, and Romance Became Our New Religion and What to Do about It (New and Revised)
David Zahl
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Philosophy
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Relationship
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In "Seculosity," David Zahl reveals how career, parenting, and politics have become our new religions, driving exhausting performancism. What if our obsessive quest for "enoughness" is actually spiritual hunger? Episcopal leaders praise this counterintuitive exploration of grace in our achievement-obsessed culture.

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