In This Issue
(And Why Being Good is Good for Business).
The body of literature on business ethics is growing rapidly. Here are some resources that treat the subject soundly without making it seem that ethical decision-making is simple.
A growing number of Web sites focus on business ethics. Inc. Online’s Ethics Corner features links to articles on business ethics for Inc. magazine www.inc.com/extra/columns/ethics.
As the old moral infrastructure crumbles, will faith take its place?
Jack Feldbaile, CEO of a large firm, describes a business decision that he feels highlights the tensions he faced as a Christian in business.
Columnists
The breakfast table was covered with birthday cards decoratively labeled
"50," which meant somebody in our home had crossed the half-century mark. But
who?
The Spice Girls won't be remembered. Martin Luther King will.
Are we only liberated from something or are we also liberated into something?
A school system cannot hope to solve school violence simply by increasing security.
Table of Contents
Cover Story
The body of literature on business ethics is growing rapidly. Here are some resources that treat the subject soundly without making it seem that ethical decision-making is simple.
A growing number of Web sites focus on business ethics. Inc. Online’s Ethics Corner features links to articles on business ethics for Inc. magazine www.inc.com/extra/columns/ethics.
As the old moral infrastructure crumbles, will faith take its place?
Jack Feldbaile, CEO of a large firm, describes a business decision that he feels highlights the tensions he faced as a Christian in business.
Many corporations in the global marketplace have severed their social contract with workers and local communities.
Participants in conversations about corporate responsibility and wages often use the
same words to mean entirely different things.
Judy Wicks sees her restaurant, the White Dog Cafe in Philadelphia, as an experiment in
bringing business and social responsibility together.
Founded by a handful of Oklahoma farmers in 1903, family-owned First Bethany Bank &
Trust recalls some of the finest traditions of small-town business.
Features
To be a contemplative has traditionally meant leaving the city for a quiet life of prayer. But some are discovering a new kind of urban contemplation that includes both a deep spiritual life and active work for justice.
To be a woman of faith in the midst of the city, I was forced to develop a
contemplative stance. I am naturally pulled toward God in the midst of nature.
I do not view myself as a contemplative. I’d say that I am a "seeker" of
God. This seeking has been a lifelong process.
Mark's gospel offers an antidote to domesticated, superficial Christianity.
Commentary
Columns
The breakfast table was covered with birthday cards decoratively labeled
"50," which meant somebody in our home had crossed the half-century mark. But
who?
The Spice Girls won't be remembered. Martin Luther King will.
Are we only liberated from something or are we also liberated into something?
A school system cannot hope to solve school violence simply by increasing security.
Culture Watch
Get out the garlic! Hef is back. That was the gist of a series of articles last summer
and fall chronicling the return to the limelight of Playboy magazine founder Hugh
Hefner.
Departments
Dear Gail: Each day I pray the muses
will bring me tasty nouns and surprising verbs,
but pain and death keep dancing through
my dreams wearing garments of grief.
What's good for General Motors---and other megacorporations---isn't necessarily good for the rest of us.
