She is suggesting that we push back against a productivity culture that does not understand grace. When it comes to work and productivity, American culture is absurd. We often work on what Slaughter calls “Time Macho”: I can work more hours than you, pull all-nighters, publish like a maniac, and so on. This is a deep-seated spiritual illness that very few prophets are willing to call out. The fact that our larger culture bows to the idol of productivity puts many of us Christian educators in a lose-lose