Tag: How The Church Fails Businesspeople
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Calmly Considered: How The Church Fails Businesspeople
Last week, I participated with Allan Bevere in a discussion centered on John Knapp's book "How The Church Fails Businesspeople (And What Can Be Done About It)." Discussion focuses on integrating our faith and working lives, with reflection on why that integration is so challenging.
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Why the Church Needs Business
Huffington Post: Why the Church Needs Business … Beyond the mess that has been the Vatican bank, the Catholic Church can learn a lot from business. This may seem counterintuitive, but the same church that has (rightly) spoken out so forcefully on the excesses and the limitations of capitalism desperately needs some capitalistic skills. How…
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Business Is the Church’s Business
Christianity Today: Business Is the Church's Business (This is an excerpt from John Knapp's book How the Church Fails Businesspeople (And What Can Be Done About It). I did an eight part blog series about the book a few weeks ago.) It's wrong to elevate an ecclesiastical elite over the money-making members of the body…
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Center for Christian Business Ethics Today Conference
On June 1-2, I'll be a co-presenter for a workshop at the Center for Christian Business Ethics Today Conference in Philadelphia. John Knapp is leading a session based on his book How the Church Fails Businesspeople (and what can be done about it.) I'll be his sidekick. You can see the conference brochure here. Based…
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How the Church Fails Businesspeople – 8
(This is a cross-post with a post done earlier today at Jesus Creed.) (Minor spelling, punctuation, and grammar edits, June 23, 2023.) WWJD – What would Jesus do? Most people are familiar with the popular Evangelical movement that sprang up in the '90s, inviting people to ask this question about daily life decisions. Many people…
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How the Church Fails Businesspeople – 7
(This is a cross-post with a post done earlier today at Jesus Creed.) (Minor spelling, punctuation, and grammar edits, June 23, 2023.) How do we create coherence between faith and work? John Knapp has explained how important rethinking vocation is and how important it is that we carefully consider a moral theology of work. Today,…
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How the Church Fails Businesspeople – 6
(This is a cross-post with a post done earlier today at Jesus Creed.) (Minor spelling, punctuation, and grammar edits, June 19, 2023.) Today we continue with John Knapp’s How the Church Fails Businesspeople (and what can be done about it). We turn now to Chapter 6, “A Moral Theology of Work.” The business environment can…
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YouTube: John Knapp – How the Church Fails Businesspeople: and what can be done about it.
I'm presently doing a chapter by chapter review of the book at Jesus Creed. I'm also posting the reviews here at the Kruse Kronicle. Chapter Six will be posted tomorrow. Here are links to each of the first five entries at Jesus Creed. There are three more to come and the series will be complete…
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Samford professor’s book says church fails many workers
al.com: Samford professor's book says church fails many workers HOMEWOOD, Alabama — A pastor once asked a professor for advice on how to handle a controversy in his church. The largest financial supporter of a Baptist church was nominated to the board of deacons. He happened to be the owner of a busy liquor store.…
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How the Church Fails Businesspeople – 5
(This is a cross-post with a post done earlier today at Jesus Creed.) (Minor spelling, punctuation, and grammar edits, June 19, 2023.) Real estate people say real estate is about three things: location, location, location. Well, I suspect integrating business and faith is also about three things: vocation, vocation, vocation. “Vocation” comes from the Latin…