Rowan Williams, formerly Archbishop of Canterbury, spoke out repeatedly on the innate social nature of human beings. Before we can talk, we ...

Mohan Vilas, a Hindu monk at Govardha Ecovillage, spoke at Harvard’s Bhakti Yoga Conference in 2025. He had gone from the world of financial...

I suspect that many people would feel very uncomfortable watching a religious person express devotional love to that person’s chosen deity i...

Applying a religion such as Hinduism to business is laudatory. Undercutting any benefits of doing so, however, is the advocation of religiou...

In the film,  Major Barbara  (1941),  Barbara, a Major in the Salvation Army, has been raised with her sister and brother by their mother. S...

Although servanthood is a very important biblical concept for leadership, according to Richard Higginson, the role of servant “is not reser...

In Business Ethics for Dummies (p. 123), greed is defined as a basic desire for more. The authors posit a “reasonable greed,” which in bus...

Released in 1994, “An Interfaith Declaration: A Code of Ethics on International Business for Christians, Muslims, and Jews” is comprised o...

In a doctoral seminar on corporate social responsibility (CSR), the professor turned to me, perhaps because by then I was also taking cours...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in December 2017 in a case on whether a baker in Colorado had been justified in refusing to sel...

Addictive pain-killers killed 64,000 residents in the U.S. in 2016, in part because physicians tended to rely on patients’ self-determined ...

In this essay, I provide a synopsis of my booklet on spiritual leadership in business. In the text, I suggest that while it may convenient ...

To be at its fullest, the notion of spiritual leadership applied to business should not shirk the religious basis of spirituality to make ...

Orienting executive compensation to accountability is easier said than done. For example, it might be supposed that the cause of accountabi...

Is it biblical to say a Christian can serve both God and money? In the Gospels, Jesus speaks to this point directly; it is not possible. In...

During his trip to South America in July 2015, Pope Francis appealed to world leaders to seek a new economic model to help the poor, and to...

Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), Pope Francis set about implementing the spirit of the letter after the two last p...

The sacred and the profane are like oil and water—oil for anointing and water for cleaning. The viability or value of the sacred does not d...

Unlike the word servant, which has been so much applied to business leadership, shepherd is used in the New Testament exclusively in refere...