Evangelicals on the Job

A review of sociologist Andrew Lynn's Saving the Protestant Ethic: Creative Class Evangelicalism and the Crisis of Work (Oxford UP) — the definitive sociological account of the American evangelical faith-and-work movement. Robinson traces how at least one new evangelical faith-and-work organisation has launched every year for the past two decades, complements Lynn's account with David Miller's earlier God at Work, and asks the unsettling question Lynn keeps pressing: is the integration of faith and work always, or even usually, a good thing?