http://www.cardus.ca/topics/business?utm_source=topic&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Cardus%2BBusiness%2BFeed en Copyright 2013 Cardus Thu, 23 May 2013 01:29:15 -0400 Cardus Thu, 23 May 2013 01:29:15 -0400 http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/3848/home-love-and-conservation/?utm_source=topic&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Cardus%2BBusiness%2BFeed Oikophilia will save the world. Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Oikophilia will save the world. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/3809/roman-coins-in-christian-hands/?utm_source=topic&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Cardus%2BBusiness%2BFeed Brown's book is a valuable reminder of the inescapable role wealth plays in all of life. Neither the church as an institution nor the church in the sense of the body of Christ is somehow immune from this reality. Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Brown's book is a valuable reminder of the inescapable role wealth plays in all of life. Neither the church as an institution nor the church in the sense of the body of Christ is somehow immune from this reality. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/3752/the-future-of-international-development/?utm_source=topic&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Cardus%2BBusiness%2BFeed If the future of international development in the hands of the Christian students reading this book, I remain hopeful about what is yet to come. Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 If the future of international development in the hands of the Christian students reading this book, I remain hopeful about what is yet to come. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/3656/wise-counsel/?utm_source=topic&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Cardus%2BBusiness%2BFeed Sadly, Pallotta's insight and experience in the humanitarian sector has produced little more than a book-length brochure for funding and promoting his next venture. Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Sadly, Pallotta's insight and experience in the humanitarian sector has produced little more than a book-length brochure for funding and promoting his next venture. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/3627/a-vision-for-a-different-economic-system/?utm_source=topic&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Cardus%2BBusiness%2BFeed The newest Jubilee Centre book contends that the biblical law—and particularly the Old Testament laws that applied to Israel concerning Sabbath, the usury prohibition, and Jubilee—provides a coherent paradigm for envisaging an alternative to the current capitalist system, one that will encourage relationality. Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400 The newest Jubilee Centre book contends that the biblical law—and particularly the Old Testament laws that applied to Israel concerning Sabbath, the usury prohibition, and Jubilee—provides a coherent paradigm for envisaging an alternative to the current capitalist system, one that will encourage relationality. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/3626/putting-business-on-the-mission-map-how-churches-can-serve-businesspeople/?utm_source=topic&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Cardus%2BBusiness%2BFeed The story that began in the Garden ends in the City, and the city is filled with many of the sights, sounds, and smells that God has brought forth from the gifted hands of ordinary men and women throughout history and purified for His kingdom. Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400 The story that began in the Garden ends in the City, and the city is filled with many of the sights, sounds, and smells that God has brought forth from the gifted hands of ordinary men and women throughout history and purified for His kingdom. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/3602/the-crux-of-work-is-the-crown-of-vocation/?utm_source=topic&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Cardus%2BBusiness%2BFeed If Witherington's book offers a broader theoretical reflection on a theology of vocation, then Smith's book offers an accessible and concrete guide to vocational discernment. One could say the two books need each other. Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400 If Witherington's book offers a broader theoretical reflection on a theology of vocation, then Smith's book offers an accessible and concrete guide to vocational discernment. One could say the two books need each other. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/3549/scaling-conversations/?utm_source=topic&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Cardus%2BBusiness%2BFeed Blackberries are buzzing, politics is fast-paced, but are we actually performing? Could it be that even deep in the bowels of technological connectedness in the twenty-first century, politics still demands old-fashioned, one-on-one conversations for results? Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400 Blackberries are buzzing, politics is fast-paced, but are we actually performing? Could it be that even deep in the bowels of technological connectedness in the twenty-first century, politics still demands old-fashioned, one-on-one conversations for results? http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/3530/what-will-you-be-when-you-grow-up/?utm_source=topic&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Cardus%2BBusiness%2BFeed SIX QUESTIONS . . . My goal is to leverage a renewed university culture to re-write the default perception of young adulthood in the culture at large—shifting it from a "failure to launch" critique toward a supportive nurturing of productive exploration. Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400 SIX QUESTIONS . . . My goal is to leverage a renewed university culture to re-write the default perception of young adulthood in the culture at large—shifting it from a "failure to launch" critique toward a supportive nurturing of productive exploration. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/3392/business-and-the-development-of-christian-social-thought/?utm_source=topic&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Cardus%2BBusiness%2BFeed All spheres of life, including business, are accountable to God . . . To think and act otherwise is to split apart the human person in ways that denigrate rather than promote human dignity and flourishing. Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400 All spheres of life, including business, are accountable to God . . . To think and act otherwise is to split apart the human person in ways that denigrate rather than promote human dignity and flourishing. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/3288/a-ripple-effect-of-good/?utm_source=topic&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Cardus%2BBusiness%2BFeed SIX QUESTIONS . . . In founding Tegu, our goal was not simply to develop toys to delight and amuse children—though that is important—but to unleash a chain reaction of innovation on multiple levels. Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400 SIX QUESTIONS . . . In founding Tegu, our goal was not simply to develop toys to delight and amuse children—though that is important—but to unleash a chain reaction of innovation on multiple levels. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/3287/economists-and-table-servers/?utm_source=topic&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Cardus%2BBusiness%2BFeed SIX QUESTIONS . . . Table servers advance God's Kingdom from nine to five. If they don't know this, they won't be very good at it. They're my audience, and my work is to show them that their work has eternal significance. Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400 SIX QUESTIONS . . . Table servers advance God's Kingdom from nine to five. If they don't know this, they won't be very good at it. They're my audience, and my work is to show them that their work has eternal significance. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/3286/pursuing-the-creative-office/?utm_source=topic&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Cardus%2BBusiness%2BFeed Though coffeeshops and other places to work boast all kinds of energy-giving people around, and they can grant all kinds of inspiration, they also have . . . all kinds of people around. Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400 Though coffeeshops and other places to work boast all kinds of energy-giving people around, and they can grant all kinds of inspiration, they also have . . . all kinds of people around. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/3271/do-not-open-no-user-serviceable-parts-inside/?utm_source=topic&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Cardus%2BBusiness%2BFeed Why do so many of us have to work where the windows don't open? Engineers, architects, and lawyers have their reasons, but must workplaces be less humane than homes? Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400 Why do so many of us have to work where the windows don't open? Engineers, architects, and lawyers have their reasons, but must workplaces be less humane than homes? http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/3133/whats-under-the-apple/?utm_source=topic&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Cardus%2BBusiness%2BFeed Products become obsolete; people grow. Which legacy of leadership is likely to stand the test of time? Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Products become obsolete; people grow. Which legacy of leadership is likely to stand the test of time? http://www.cardus.ca/comment/print_issues/3113/?utm_source=topic&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Cardus%2BBusiness%2BFeed When did "hard-working, successful, creative" become our virtues of choice? Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500 When did "hard-working, successful, creative" become our virtues of choice? http://www.cardus.ca/comment/print_issues/3113/?utm_source=topic&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Cardus%2BBusiness%2BFeed We cannot afford the infrastructure and living arrangements we have built to centre our lives around the automobile. Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500 We cannot afford the infrastructure and living arrangements we have built to centre our lives around the automobile. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/3097/cultivating-her-creative-calling/?utm_source=topic&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Cardus%2BBusiness%2BFeed Beth Giles's business is an example of how a Christian can engage in the market economy with a creative vision. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Beth Giles's business is an example of how a Christian can engage in the market economy with a creative vision. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/3094/life-long-learners-140/?utm_source=topic&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Cardus%2BBusiness%2BFeed Fourteenth in an expert series on must-read books. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Fourteenth in an expert series on must-read books. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/3091/the-stuffed-shark-and-the-insecurity-of-culture/?utm_source=topic&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Cardus%2BBusiness%2BFeed In Christ "all things," including a $12 million stuffed shark and a $200,000 canvas with oil paints smeared on it, hold together. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 In Christ "all things," including a $12 million stuffed shark and a $200,000 canvas with oil paints smeared on it, hold together.