Many times over the last few years my attention has been drawn to Luke and The Parable of the Shrewd Manager, as the New International Version calls it. Other versions refer to this passage as The Parable of the Unjust Steward.
“Man is surely stark raving mad,” Michel de Montaigne said. “He can’t make a worm, but he makes gods by the dozen.” I imagine that we’re all aware of the subtlety and insidiousness of idolatry, yet how many times, in how many ways, do we set idols before God?
Business can sometimes be that to me. Not that business is wrong, irredeemable. No – simply, it needs always to be kept in its place, always and fully consecrated to God.
I believe for the time being it is my calling to be ‘in business’. I love it. At the same time it’s exciting and repetitive, challenging and easy, there are successes and there are bitter disappointments, people exceed expectations, people fail dismally. [click to continue…]
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Book review: The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, by Hernando de Soto.
“Sendero Luminoso!” A name that struck so much fear in the hearts of Peruvians in the 80’s that they uttered it only in a whisper. Yet of all the terrorist movements since World War II that had any realistic potential to form a national government, only this one was decisively defeated on the battleground of ideas.
Not poor, but underserved
The task of making The Shining Path politically irrelevant was accomplished primarily by ideological means. Hernando de Soto, of The Institute of Liberty and Democracy in Lima, offered an alternative vision of Peru’s poor. Rather than see them as the proletariat, he showed that they were in fact budding entrepreneurs whose greatest desire was not to bring down the market economy but to join it. [click to continue…]
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