When we think of banks and Wall Street, perhaps we think of subprime loans, the 1%, and the Great Recession. We very...
This is the fourth talk of Andy Mills' five-part series on faith and work. Andy Mills is the former CEO of the...
Another category of possible exceptions to the norm of truthtelling is when the person asking the questions has no right to the...
Financiers have a duty to lend profitably, but they are not to profit from the vulnerability of borrowers. You shall not lend them [people in difficulty] your money at interest taken in advance...
The final hope of Christians is not to be spared the suffering that all people experience in the fallen world. It is to participate in the abundant life promised when the world is...
The Valiant Woman makes sure that the work of her hands is marketable. She knows what the...
Israel's leaders are indicted for their failure to care for the nation. Ezekiel 34 uses the metaphor of shepherding to illustrate how...
Loving God means loving people. Running a business means making a profit. Between these two lies a gap – or is it...
When we work in the marketplace as Jesus followers, there’s a phrase that often rings in our ears. The words come from Matthew, chapter 6: “You cannot serve both God and money.” The...
Most simply put, profit is the excess of income over costs. Another way to express it is as a return on the...
How should the level of profit be determined? This raises a whole hornet’s nest of issues and questions. But it needs to...
Loving God inevitably leads us to take into account the welfare of the other people affected by our decision-making – both locally...
The book of Amos is a powerful prophetic challenge to those of us who seek to follow...
This is the place to mention another area where our pursuit of profit may lead us to ignore God’s intentions. The conflict...
Is there a tension between “people needs” and “profit obligations”? Some employers will say there isn’t – looking after the one will...
In the eighteenth century a substantial revival occurred across Great Britain. Thousands of working class poor came...
By Rev’d Dr. Kenneth J. Barnes, Dean of the Marketplace Institute, Ridley College, Melbourne, Australia In his collected papers entitled, Reflections on...
