Excerpt from Business Ethics Today Book By Dr. Peter A. Lillback, Mac McQuistin, Lou Giuliano, and Philip J. Clements The question is, “Are you going to be obedient to the Call?” The “Call” is the call to business, be it a nurse or a doctor or a hospital CEO. Everyone is created by God with a purpose. To put it another [...]

Excerpt from Business Ethics Today Book By William Edgar Why is it we so often feel that work, hard work, is not a pleasure, but an enslaving necessity? Surely there are many reasons. But perhaps the central one is that we have divorced work from hope. A number of years ago, there was a gang of laborers digging holes in the [...]

Excerpt from Business Ethics Today Book By Chuck Colson How can you have ethical behavior?  The crisis of character is totally understandable when there are no absolute values.  The word ethics derives from the Greek word ethos, which literally meant, “stall”—a hiding place.  It was the one place you could go and find security.  There could be rest and something that [...]

Excerpt from Business Ethics Today Book By Philip J. Clements and Peter Lillback Business Ethics Today: Adding a Christian Worldview as Found in the Westminster Confession of Faith Conference of June 11 and 12, 2010 endeavors to respond to the warning of Judges 2:10-11, that we can fail to remember what God has done for us.  In this forward, we review [...]

Humans: Why They Triumphed, By Matt Ridley, WSJ, paper edition, Saturday/Sunday W1, May 22-23, 2010 There are a variety of explanations for the progress of technology in the contemporary theories of evolution.  Human evolution toward tool-making has been attributed to geological catastrophes, brain physiology, DNA blueprints, and, now, sociological patterns.  Ridley reports that “collective intelligence” seems to be the source [...]

Gold has crossed the price of $1,200 an ounce.  Lots of people are talking $1,500, maybe even $2,000 an ounce.  The current run-up in gold is creating a bit of a stampede to buy the commodity.  Those who are passionate about investing in gold are often referred to as “gold-bugs.” By way of background for the reader, gold has been [...]

The Big Slick and the Big Easy, by:Douglass McCollam, WSJ, paper edition, A13, May 8, 2010 We still do not know the extent or implications of the “Big Slick.” “Even as the governor spoke, oil continued to gush from the ruined remains of BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig at the rate of about 10,000 gallons an hour, an event best characterized [...]

Alex McFarland Interviews Phil Clements!!! Radio host, Alex McFarland, interviewed Phil Clements on his show “Sound Rezn.” During the show’s second segment, Phil and Alex discuss ethics in business, the joy of work, and some positive perspectives in a down economy. Click the following link to listen: Phil Clements on “Sound Rezn”