Faith & Work

The operator’s scars are the genre’s missing credential. Why faith-business writing needs authors with ledgers, and how P&L-backed teaching sounds different.

Be excellent, be ethical, be salt and light: the faith-business genre exhorts endlessly and equips rarely. Naming the genre problem, and the mechanics-first alternative.

If the second great commandment governs money, a portfolio is a neighbor-love document. Reading allocations, instruments, and terms as answers to who is my neighbor.

Negative screens are faith investing’s easiest tool and its laziest endpoint. Holding the harm line while backing growth: the both-hands discipline of blessing-seeking capital.

Scope, estimates, dependencies, retrospectives: project management is applied truth-telling and neighbor-love. The unexpectedly theological craft of delivering on time.

The productivity movement offers real tools and a false god. Keeping the systems while refusing the idol: time stewarded for fruitfulness, not optimized for its own sake.

Markets need freedom, and freedom needs furniture: titles, courts, honest scales, stable rules. The shopkeeper’s view of economic liberty, between statism and slogan.

Sixty years of projects have not done what a durable payroll does in one: convert charity’s recipient into provision’s agent. The enterprise case in the poverty debate.

Catholic social teaching’s subsidiarity principle, decisions at the lowest competent level, is the best organizational design doctrine founders have never used. Applied.

Character used to be formed by guilds, apprenticeships, and congregations. Today the forming institutions are platforms and algorithms. Who should be shaping workers, and how.