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Standout Ethical Startups of 2023
With just a few days to go until 2024 begins, the inevitable lists of 2023 are current features in many information outlets. The most...
Karen Kuykendall
Dec 29, 20234 min read


Precarious Christmas 2023
This post first published on December 24, 2021. Given its timelessness, we thought it appropriate to re-share it with our expanding...
Aaron Hedges
Dec 22, 20233 min read


The Most Charitable Time of the Year
During the holidays, it seems like everyone is tugging on your heartstrings and at your shirtsleeve to make a donation. From Giving...
Karen Kuykendall
Dec 8, 20235 min read


Welcome to the (Rental) Neighborhood
For everyone who loves a good Christmas movie, it's almost certain that they've seen It's a Wonderful Life, and most likely more than...
Karen Kuykendall
Nov 10, 20235 min read


Care Work, PTO and Better Capitalism
Ms. Shamsa Belgrave is currently a sophomore at Swarthmore College with a growing awareness that America’s current form of capitalism is...
Shamsa Belgrave
Sep 8, 20234 min read


Envisioning Mutual Benefit
Ms. Shamsa Belgrave is currently a sophomore at Swarthmore College, with a growing awareness that America’s current form of capitalism is...
Shamsa Belgrave
Sep 1, 20234 min read


Industry 4.0: Get Ready for the Next Phase of Capitalism
Industry 4.0 (also known as 4IR) is a term you see popping up more and more. There are so many acronyms in the world these days, though,...
Karen Kuykendall
Aug 25, 20234 min read
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Three Great [Business] Commissions
This abstract is from a short and insightful article by Peter Heslam of Faith in Business, which reminds us that we carry our faith with...
Paul Knowlton
Aug 18, 20233 min read


Care Work and the Economy
Ms. Shamsa Belgrave is currently a sophomore at Swarthmore College with a growing awareness that America’s current form of capitalism is...
Shamsa Belgrave
Aug 11, 20234 min read


Self-interest & Social Responsibility
Ms. Shamsa Belgrave is a sophomore at Swarthmore College with a growing awareness that America’s current form of capitalism is damaging...
Shamsa Belgrave
Aug 4, 20234 min read


Bringing Back the Burg: How Local Government Can Help Local Business
It's an all too familiar story in modern day America. A once vibrant town now struggles because its main source of economic security...
Karen Kuykendall
Jul 28, 20234 min read


Self-Interest & Fast Fashion
Ms. Shamsa Belgrave is a sophomore at Swarthmore College with a growing awareness that America’s current form of capitalism is damaging...
Shamsa Belgrave
Jul 21, 20234 min read


Support Your Local Entrepreneur
The word "entrepreneur" has a certain mystique about it. It conjures up images of brilliant and energetic inventors who have changed the...
Karen Kuykendall
Jul 14, 20234 min read


When Work Perverts Life
Do you love your work? Did you once love your work but not such much anymore? Activities we humans engage in and label work are...
Ray Klassen
Jul 7, 20234 min read


Theology of Enough for Church Leaders
Table & Towel is a monthly publication of the Eula Mae and John Baugh Center for Baptist Leadership of Mercer University. This Theology...
Paul Knowlton
Jun 30, 20234 min read


It All Starts With Tragic Thinking
WE DON’T HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS screamed the front-page headline of my neighbor’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper the day after a...
Paul Knowlton
Jun 23, 20233 min read


B Corps and Benefit Corporations: Working Toward A Better Capitalism
If you're in B-School or business, you've probably heard the "B Corp" buzz phrase by now. You might also have come across the term...
Karen Kuykendall
Jun 16, 20234 min read


Can Capitalism Be Improved? - A MDJ Book Review
Roger Hines, the well-known columnist for the popular metro-Atlanta news source MDJ (Marietta Daily Journal) is also a career academic and...
Roger Hines
Jun 9, 20234 min read


The Essential Values of Work
By distinguishing between plantation and partnership economics, Better Capitalism provides us a way of coming to understand the...
Ray Klassen
Jun 2, 20234 min read


Re-Learning Church Economics - Part II
In Part I of Re-Learning Church Economics, we saw that that historically, the local church has always been involved in bolstering the...
Karen Kuykendall
May 26, 20234 min read
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