I like the landscaping around my home to look beautiful: no weeds, trimmed bushes, and green grass. I spend many morning hours keeping my yard in pristine condition. My wife believes that I spend too much time outside doing yard work and she is probably right. I just fear getting behind in my yard …
“As the Birds to Flying, So Is Man Born Unto Work”
Martin Luther (1483-1546) is well-known for his stand against the Catholic Church and the start of the Protestant Reformation. But far fewer people know that he wrote extensively about work. In their paper, Martin Luther’s Notion of Work as an Individual Source for Meaning, published in the book …
The Crisis in the Churches: Stewardship (Part III)
In Part II of my blog on Dr. Robert Wuthnow’s book, The Crisis in the Churches: Spiritual Malaise, Fiscal Woe (Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 1997), he places some of the burden on the clergy for not relating to the working lives of their congregations: “Many pastors seem to be unaware of …
The Crisis in the Churches: Clergy (Part II)
In Part I of my blog on Dr. Robert Wuthnow’s book, The Crisis in the Churches: Spiritual Malaise, Fiscal Woe (Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 1997), I describe his thesis that churches are in decline because they have not focused on the majority of their parishioners, the middle-class. He …
The Crisis in the Churches: Introduction (Part I)
I am a fan of Dr. Robert Wuthnow, the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. His scholarly expertise is the sociology of religion and he has written more than 30 books. I stumbled upon one of his earlier books, The Crisis in the Churches: Spiritual Malaise, Fiscal Woe …
Deutsche Bank
Most weekday mornings during breakfast I read the London Financial Times (FT). I worked twice in London as an American ex-pat for Shell Trading and balance the US news against European reporting. On the 9th of July 2019, John Gapper wrote an editorial in the FT titled: ‘Deutsche’s bankers were …
2019 Wharton MBA Graduation: Fight Hard — Give More
On May 19th, I attended the 2019 Wharton MBA Graduation at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). My son graduated from Wharton after studying there for two years. Graduations are happy gatherings where students, faculty, families and friends celebrate the graduate’s successful completion of …
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Christian versus Business Worldview
I worked in business for over half my life. I understand business drivers like return on assets, competitiveness, profits, shareholder value, and customers. I worked long hours with the associated stresses to meet goals, assess risks, and remain compliant. I know both the terror of being on the …
Work as a Calling
How do you make meaning from your work? Is it a job, career, or calling? For most of my life, I never thought about these differences. In their paper, Work as Worship, published in the book Faith & Work: Christian Perspectives, Research, and Insights Into the Movement (Edited by Timothy Ewest, …
Ms. Ella
I serve on the Southwestern University Board of Trustees. At various times during the year, I rise early to drive north the 30 miles from my central Austin home to Georgetown where the university resides. Southwestern is a beautiful liberal arts campus of stone buildings that surround the grassy …