{"id":1474,"date":"2009-07-22T15:19:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T19:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evangelicalgateway.wordpress.com\/?p=150"},"modified":"2009-07-22T15:19:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T19:19:32","slug":"new-material-on-faithwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/philosophicalfragments\/2009\/07\/22\/new-material-on-faithwork\/","title":{"rendered":"New Material on Faith@Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>At the evangelical portal at Patheos, the conversation continues on Christian faithfulness in the secular work world.\u00a0 Click here to <a href=\"http:\/\/evangelical.patheos.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/evangelical.patheos.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3403\/3517631155_71678c8449.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two articles are especially worth mentioning today.\u00a0 The first is from one of my best friends, a man of exceptional talents who has been extremely successful at an executive consulting firm.\u00a0 He writes about the anguish\u2013and the ethics\u2013of having to fire his employees.\u00a0 It begins thus: \u201cI will fire four people next month, people who performed well and did what they were asked.\u00a0 One is an immigrant.\u00a0 Two have children.\u00a0 Three are in their late 30s and will wonder how to start over.\u00a0 All four will be stunned.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/Resources\/Additional-Resources\/Ethics-of-Firing-Part-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The second article is my own, on executive compensation.\u00a0 As the teaser reads, \u201cTop executive can be paid 100s of even 1000s of times more than soldiers and teachers.\u00a0 This should stop, and Christians should lead the way.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/Resources\/Additional-Resources\/Executive-Excess.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the evangelical portal at Patheos, the conversation continues on Christian faithfulness in the secular work world.\u00a0 Click here to check it out. 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