The Dignity of Ordinary Work: What Cain and Abel Reveal About Modern Alienation

November 4th, 2025 | 17 min read

Your job feels meaningless. You process forms nobody reads. You attend meetings that accomplish nothing. You wonder if an algorithm will replace you next quarter, and you’re not sure it shouldn’t.

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Alastair Herd

Alastair Herd works as a Data Engineer for a European Tech Consultancy. He is also an incoming remote student at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Michigan. He and his wife live in their hometown in the South East of England.

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The Dignity of Ordinary Work: What Cain and Abel Reveal About Modern Alienation

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