Jerry Bowyer
Jerry Bowyer is financial economist, president of Bowyer Research, and author of “The Maker Versus the Takers: What Jesus Really Said About Social Justice and Economics.”
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C12 CEO on how to avoid a bad theology of business
Does a missionary do holier work than an engineer? Is God begging for our charitable donations? What message does your church give young adults who are just beginning their careers?
Was Jesus really "racist" against the Syrophoenician woman?
Promulgators of the racist Jesus calumny have matters not just regular wrong, but perfectly wrong -- a complete inversion of the truth.
CEO of Bradley Foundation criticizes wokeism in business and philanthropy
How large financial institutions are turning their backs on the system which made their wealth possible in the first place - and embracing wokeism as an alternative.
Leader of Christian CEO group looks at the state of the culture
"By raising the cross at the center of the marketplace, we put the question of God on the table instead of it being buried in somebody's desk."
Was Afghanistan a just war?
In my private conversations with Bush administration officials including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Condi Rice directly, it became clear to me that they felt that they had to justify the wars along grand humanitarian lines, with objectives of transforming great swaths of the world into the kind of liberal democracies that have historically only emerged from Christian civilizations (or colonies of those civilizations).
As big companies take anti-biblical stances, here's how to be salt & light
The first vote I cast in a presidential election was for Ronald Reagan in 1980. Back then I was part of a group that would drop off voter's guides at churches to help educate Christians on the stances their local politicians took on issues like abortion.
Jesus, Peter and the plague: What we can learn from His life in pandemic zone
As Christians, along with the world, struggle to deal with the Covid pandemic and now new genetic variants, few have turned to the Scriptures, and the person of Jesus for insight. That's a pity, because a careful reading of the Bible in historical context can shed light on this topic and on the balancing of risk with pursuit of opportunity.
Greg Leith on a bad theology of work and a good theology of work
Which careers honor God the most? What does God think of entrepreneurs? Is the highest calling for business leaders to be ATMs for the church? These are the kinds of questions that inspire people like Greg Leith to step up with answers.
I attended dozens of corporate annual meetings to talk about their wokeism; here’s what I learned
Over the past few months, I have attended around 25 shareholder meetings. I have written about specific meetings, but now that most major corporations have had their meetings, a general overview of the season is in order.
Yelp deserves a one-star rating for religious liberty
I recently attended the annual meeting of Yelp, a large, San Francisco-based tech company that runs a business review website and app. As the success of small businesses depends in part on reviews posted through services such as Yelp and Google, they have enormous potential influence over our economy.