In this issue we start with a mind-stretching article by Chris
Bemrose on the redemption of organisations. Can we extend Christ’s
work of redemption beyond personal salvation? Scripture tells
us of salvation for the nation Israel and grace for the insitution
of the Church. Can this extend to organisations? What is certain
is that hearts and minds in corporations must be changed.
Corporate accountability appears to be a largely secular and
legal matter, but is there a Christian perspective? William Henry
looks at legal accountabilities to stakeholders and suggests that
the Christian view adds accountabilities to God for the stakeholders.
Our interview this issue is with Catharine Pusey, stemming from
her time as Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Employers Forum
on Belief (EFB). Jonathan Evens explores with her the practical
problems she encountered for employers in implementing the new
legislation on discimination on the grounds of religion or belief.
The CABE Hugh Kay lecture was given this year by John Varley,
Group Chief Executive of Barclays Bank, and we have a summary
of his talk which does not shy away from the controversies of
the moment. He concludes that bankers have a chance of getting
to heaven!
In this and the next issue we are reporting on some interesting
new initiatives in the ‘faith and work’ field. Our new editor
Sally Orwin reports on the City Gate Conference which is held
in Manchester each year, and here we have a second article exploring
the work of Christ beyond personal salvation. The key speaker
was an American evangelical, Landa Cope, who proclaimed that the
supreme Christ of Scripture shows us that unemployment is a moral
disaster, that we must resist stealing time, and yet still enjoy
a time of sabbath rest.
Jonathan Martin, an officiating Royal Navy Chaplain and canon
of Salibury Cathedral, outlines a new European Chaplaincy organisation
which survives on fees from its clients, without compromising
its independence - in fact, Marketplace Chaplains are valued for
it.
The Copenhagen United Nations Climate Change Conference was seen
by most as an ecological disaster. Mark McAllister suggests that
the intemperate tone of the debate is counter-productive. Instead,
Christian insight and temperance might be brought to bear in accepting
fossil fuels as God’s blessing, and as a springboard for investment
in alternative fuels.
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