John W Gladwin The author is Secretary of the Church of England’s Board for Social Responsibility, and is also Associate Editor of Themelios in Social Ethics. Hardly a week seems to pass without a new book or article appearing from Christians about the subject of work in an age of unemployment. It was Hitler’s concentration camps which displayed slogans proclaiming the virtues of work as the way to freedom. Christians believe that faith in Christ opens the door to liberty: