To the conference this morning. Held under the under the auspice of common good and columbias center on and society. Nearby is philip howard, founder of common good and a senior fellow of the center. So were linked together. Hes a principal organizer of this conference with its theme reempower human Agency Agency as economists come to recognize for work to be meaningful, it has to working people some degree of. Not the mechanical work of in neoclassical economics. Without that the workers suffer, as Richard Sennett argued in his book of some years ago, the culture of the new capitalism. Philip howard has been making another point, one yet not absorbed, i think, by economists. The absence of human agency into bureaucracies prevents them. The bureaucracies from generous getting the services needed by the public. Here it is in the case of sennett, it was the workers that were suffering here. Its the consumers and producers who are suffering because theyre not getting good service. As phil
Thank you, thank you. Well, i think many of us who pray can identify with the first one because were always praying for people, in accessory prayer were praying for ourselves, nation and world. That is kind of a petition and help me, but were grateful we also remember to say thank you and have an attitude of gratitude. And so im especially thankful for two of my colleagues and friends are here who are also friends of mosaic and we have had them before. Reverend jim of lake shore baptist. Good morning. Great to have you. Great to be here. Great to have you both. Say a little bit about thanksgiving and what thank you and the attitude of gratitude means to you. Let us start with you, jim. You mentioned the prayer help me, help me, help me and thank you, thank you, thank you, they are connected to each other. Thanksgiving is often expressed in the midst of great pain. 1863 when Abraham Lincoln first signed the thanksgiving into a national holiday, that was in the middle of the civil war. S
Thank you, thank you. Many of you who pray can identify with the first one because were always praying for people in accessory prayer, we pray for ourselves and our nation and our world. That is kind of a petition and helpme. But were grateful we also remember to say thank you and have an attitude of gratitude. Im especially thankful for two of my colleagues and friends are here who are also friends of mosaic and weve had them before, reverend jim of lake shore baptist. Good morning. Good morning. Good to be here. Great to be here. And reverend jenkins. Say what thank you and the attitude of gratitude means to you. Start with you, jim. You mentioned the prayer help me, help me, help me, and thank you, thank you, thank you, and theyre connected to each other. Thanksgiving is often expressed in the midst of great pain. In 1863 when Abraham Lincoln first signed the thanksgiving into a national holiday, that is in the middle of the civil war. Slavery was still on the books. Hard times. But