Faith & Work

The tithe debate asks the wrong question. Ten percent was never the ceiling of generosity but its training floor, and what rises above any floor depends on the walls: systems.

Setting a lifestyle cap and giving the rest is a beautiful resolve that dies without machinery. The household operating system that makes finish-line generosity survivable.

Faith-driven deals open with covenant talk and close on standard paper. The clauses where Kingdom intent could actually live, and why it usually dies in legal review.

The faith-driven movement’s flywheel, capital to companies to jobs to generosity, runs differently in frontier markets. The East African turning, bind by bind.

Faith-driven investing and ESG often exclude the same stocks and fund similar projects, and aim at different ends. Why telos, not screens, is the real distinction.

ABCD taught development to start with what communities have. Marketplace programs still start with what founders lack. Translating asset-based practice into enterprise support.

Impact is a fog; a payroll is a fact. What happens to programs, capital, and ventures when durable jobs become the measure, and what the jobs metric still cannot see.

Business as Mission fails when one venture is asked to carry what only an ecosystem can: capital, discipleship, markets, and community. The ecosystem map.

The dependency critique was aimed at beneficiaries; it applies to organizations too. How the program economy disciples nonprofits into the patterns they preach against.

Free programs communicate worthlessness; full price excludes the worthy. The architecture of dignified pricing for development programs: floors, ladders, and named subsidy.