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Fresh Approach to Mideast Peace: Integrated Business Initiative
By Mike Humphrey
Background Peace in the Middle East has been elusive since Abraham’s sons Ishmael and Isaac went in different directions. Ishmael’s branch became the Arab people and Isaac’s branch become the Jewish people. Questio...
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Taking Relational and Social Capital to Scale to Transform Poverty
By Jon Katov
I drove by poverty all of my days. If you were experiencing poverty . . . my license plate was my face to you. The steel vessel that carried me and accelerated through poverty held a solution. Within me, a human ves...
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My Evolving Understanding of Money and God
By Ivan Cortes
This paper chronicles my life’s journey of trying to understand money, work, God, and ministry. It covers my evolution from a Catholic boy, turned Opus Dei student, who becomes a spiritually disenchanted professional, to be...
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Interview with Scott Friesen
By Scott Friesen
[Scott Friesen is the co-founder and CEO of Verdant Frontiers, a company with a mission to fight poverty in Africa by designing and building large-scale, for-profit businesses that generate compelling shareholder returns. The...
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Market Economies With Churches and Market Economies Without Churches
By Xiao Zhao
This article was originally published in 2002, after Dr. Zhao completed a several-month-long visit and research project to the US. He was not a Christian at the time of the article. He was a member of the Communist Party Gove...
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About Being a Bus Driver
By Justin Hays
In my first semester in college, all incoming freshman were required to take a class titled “Student’s Life and Calling,” which through discussion attempted to tackle some of Christianity’s most challenging questions ...
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Rethinking Business as Mission (BAM): Why Christian-led Companies, Charitie...
By Mike Mannina
[This paper calls the reader to evaluate his or her vocational platform as a unique part of the global body of Christ, and to think critically about how to specialize and synergize with others to achieve greater Kingdom expan...
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Commander’s Intent
By Jake Thomsen
Few organizations achieve goals in the face of uncertainty like the US military. There are many reasons for this, but one input often credited with enabling the necessary, singular focus during military operations is the “c...
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Think More About Philanthropy Than Investing? Think Again . . .
By Tom Blaisdell
By now many people who are thoughtful about “stewardship” of their time, talent, and treasure are aware of the difference between “Business For Mission” versus “Business As Mission.” In the first case, you are ama...
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The Glory and Futility of Stewardship: Why loyal stewards struggle with red...
By Mordechai Wiseman
Forgive me for the outrageous title but I think it’s profoundly true, and intensely real for me and for many of my peers in the Kingdom of God. It holds both warning and promise as we seek to practice redemptive stewardship...
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