Running a magazine is a business. Running churchwide agencies and colleges is big business. Congregations pay attention to labor laws for their employees, budget for operating expenses and decide how to depreciate assets …
Running a magazine is a business. Running churchwide agencies and colleges is big business. Congregations pay attention to labor laws for their employees, budget for operating expenses and decide how to depreciate assets …
The wife of a recent seminary graduate on a service assignment in east Africa emailed me a couple months ago …
Consider how business theory applies to the church. Some believe it is the definitive model of how to do church. Others are more skeptical. The church is in the world and submits (hopefully with eyes wide open) to some of the basic laws of earthly economics, but it is not of the world …
Late at night on Jan. 26, I was reading The Widows of Eastwick. The next day I learned that the author of that novel, John Updike, had died. His death felt like losing a college friend with whom one made an annual contact, a good neighbor who came to see us once a year …
