Jerry Bowyer

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  Jul 9, 2021

  Target stealth bans trans-skeptic books

  Remember when Target banned a pair of books that ran afoul of the secular left’s view of sexuality and gender? Maybe not – it was all the way back in November, after a complaint on Twitter, that they removed Irreversible Damage (Abigail Shrier) and The End Of Gender (Dr. Debra Soh) from their online store. And while the controversy was major, it was also short-lived: Target banned and then unbanned the books over the course of a single day. End of story, right? If only.

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  Jun 25, 2021

  Course review: free daily dose of Greek and Hebrew

  When drawn into an argument with ignorant and elitist clergymen, Christian scholar and leader in the Protestant Reformation William Tyndale declared, "If God spare my life, ere many years pass, I will cause a boy that driveth the plow shall know more of the Scripture than thou dost."

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  Jun 16, 2021

  Marriott modifies position on religious liberty

  As part of my recent campaign of attending shareholder meetings, I participated in the annual meeting of Marriott International, one of the world’s largest hotel operators. As a member of a team that manages and designs ETFs, I asked Marriott directly at the annual meeting about their political activism – and received a surprisingly encouraging response.

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  Jun 9, 2021

  Emcee of world's largest Christian entrepreneurship conference on public speaking

  For many, the term "public speaking" conjures impressive mental images of huge crowds and perhaps a politician or self-help guru at a podium. Because most of us aren't politicians or self-help gurus (thank goodness), we don't have to worry about what it takes to be a good public speaker, right? Wrong.

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  Jun 2, 2021

  Did the church in Acts really practice Communism?

  It is imperative in this time of economic crisis that the Church establish a firm understanding of the basic principles of Biblical economics. In order to do this, we must deal with one of the most misunderstood and misused passages in Scripture: the account about the early church’s sharing practices described in Acts Chapter 4.

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  May 24, 2021

  Cigna refuses to answer shareholder question about undermining religious liberty

  We're currently in annual shareholder meeting season, which runs roughly April through June. Being part of a team which helps design, update and maintain Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), and also being an investor in those funds personally, I set out to take responsibility for what is in the portfolios by attending the shareholder meetings of the companies I own. But the point was not just to show up, but also to speak up.

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  May 19, 2021

  Corning, the glass company, needs more transparency about religious freedom

  As a member of a team which helps build and maintain investment funds (ETFs), and as an investor in them personally, I have been attending annual shareholders meetings of many of the U.S. companies in which I am invested. I have asked questions of the meeting organizers before, during, and after the meetings. My general focus has been on excess politicking, on issues that are not of core material operational importance, by publicly traded companies.

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  May 12, 2021

  Opportunity for Christians to influence corporations tomorrow

  Our friends over at the Free Enterprise Project, an institution that has been engaging with businesses over anti-Christian and anti-conservative corporate activism, recently released their 2021 Investor Value Voting Guide. Their guide provides investors with details about which shareholder proposals are on the ballot at annual meetings this year and how to vote your values, whether they be religious or political.

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  May 3, 2021

  Companies censor shareholder questions about anti-religious liberty law at annual meetings

  We are now in “proxy season,” the period starting in April in which many publicly traded companies have their annual shareholder meetings. As chief economist for a financial firm that has substantial investments in a broad range of companies, I have been attending these meetings with the particular purpose of asking management about the Equality Act – a proposed law that has been endorsed by a shocking number of publicly-traded companies.

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  Apr 22, 2021

  Christian leaders form new site to 'stop corporate tyranny'

  Recent weeks have seen a renewed focus of the conservative Christian movement on “woke capital.” Following corporate denouncements of the new Georgia voting law, many Christians and conservatives are looking for ways to resist the growing tide within corporate America of partisan activism.