The Art of Manliness Ecclesiastes on Enjoying Our Weirdly Unsatisfying Lives
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Feb 10, 2026 
Bobby Jamieson, pastor and author of Everything Is Never Enough, brings theological and philosophical wit to Ecclesiastes. He explores why the book feels uncannily modern. Short, sharp conversations probe work, pleasure, time, control, death, and how adopting a grateful, gift-oriented stance can reshape ordinary life.
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Wisdom As Lived Philosophy
- Wisdom literature like Ecclesiastes invites personal wrestling with life's big questions through lived experience.
- The book reads as empirical philosophy that tests meaning by trying different lives and reporting results.
Hevel: Breath, Fleetingness, Absurdity
- Hevel literally means breath and metaphorically names life as fleeting, volatile, and often absurd.
- Kohelet uses hevel to describe both fleeting pleasures and deep mismatches between expectation and reality.
Minivan Repair Feels Absurd
- Bobby recounts a minor absurdity where a minivan spent weeks in the shop over a door handle repair.
- After three weeks the door was replaced and the car barely worked better, which felt absurdly disproportionate.
