@Ruth, whatever the term, it is very much alive and well in Christian circles because we’ve abused the work ethic of the Puritans by pretending our work is our identity and that if you aren’t serving 100%, then God is displeased, or people will be lost, or “if you don’t do it, nobody will.” I’ve even heard pastors say, “It is better to burn out than rust out.” It’s a false dichotomy. Burnout is an epidemic in our sub-culture among people who do “ministry.”

For my own part, I think we’ve lost a very important gift God gave us at the beginning of creation, the gift of rest. This time of rest was the first thing he calls “holy” in Scripture. And that rest, though for some reason ignored by evangelicals, was traditionally called the “Sabbath” where you let the world take care of itself and you spend your day in study of the Scripture and reflection on God and our place in his world. Nothing has helped me more against the tyranny of being overworked than that simple thing.