by Rob Tribken | Oct 18, 2014 | Role of the Church
Baylor University sociologists Jerry Park, Jenna Rogers, Mitchell Neubert, and Kevin Dougherty released a new study looking at the role of congregations in encouraging healthy work attitudes. Their study uses data collected from 1022 respondents in Baylor’s...
by Rob Tribken | Oct 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
Partner’s Worldwide international business as mission conference Marketplace Revolution ’14 is coming up on October 30 and 31, in Grand Rapids. Business as mission activists will be coming from a large number of countries to swap ideas and listen to...
by Rob Tribken | Jul 20, 2014 | Working Well
Andy Kessler of the Wall Street Journal has written an interesting article based on an interview with Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn. There are several key insights from Hoffman; one involved keeping innovative and adaptive employees in the newer heavily...
by Rob Tribken | Jul 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
Norman Horn, the founder of LibertarianChristians.com, has announced the first annual Christians for Liberty Conference, to be held August 2, 2014, in Austin, Texas. Horn has been writing about Christian libertarianism for several years, and does good work. More...
by Rob Tribken | Jul 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
The new Theological Seminary of the West will open in Southern California in September, 2014; one of its first courses will be called Spirituality for Busy People. The seminary has asked friend of the Center for Faith and Enterprise Shelley Irvine and myself to teach...
by Rob Tribken | Jul 12, 2014 | Finding Purpose, Markets, Enterprise, and Wellbeing
In his article “Serious Business: Why It Matters,” C.F.E. friend Tony Mulkern summarizes (link) some of the arguments made by Michael Novak during his C.F.E. sponsored speaking tour a few years ago, and then concludes with his own excellent advice to...
by Rob Tribken | Jun 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
A couple of weeks ago I flew to Florida to attend the wedding of a nephew. Meeting and interacting with people in their twenties gave me a big shot of hope. To see these “kids” establishing themselves in various ventures and careers was really...
by Rob Tribken | Jun 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
Panagiotis Evangelopoulos has an excellent short article in the current (summer) issue of The Independent Review (available by subscription). His basic argument is that political leaders in Greece, both left and right, have used political rent seeking to maintain...