You can read previous posts in this series here: an introduction to truthtelling, truthtelling in the Bible, why truthtelling is important, guidelines for telling the truth at work, and cases where people have no right to the truth. We’ve spent a lot of time talking about exceptions to truthtelling and tough ethical cases in this series. The exceptions occur when there is no expectation of the truth (as in puffery and poker), when (in the rare cases) it is clear that everyone knows... Read more
You can read previous posts in this series here: an introduction to truthtelling, truthtelling in the Bible, why truthtelling is important, and guidelines for telling the truth at work. There can be cases where people have no right to the truth at work. Here’s a famous example people often use: Another category of possible exceptions to the norm of truthtelling is when the person asking the questions has no right to the truth. For example, if a gun-wielding criminal comes into... Read more
Everybody ought to tell the truth, right? Especially Christians? This is a statement most of us would heartily endorse. But telling the truth in the workplace can be difficult. What we affirm on Sunday is hard to practice on Monday. Previous posts in this series have raised the questions of why telling the truth can be hard, what God tells us in the Bible about telling the truth, and why telling the truth is important in human relationships. Telling the... Read more
The right of a person to make his or her own autonomous decisions is based on having accurate information, so much so that people often and understandably feel violated and disrespected when they are deceived. Read more
The Biblical expectation is that we tell the truth. Read more
Our commitment to truth is often stretched thin in the workplace. Sometimes it seems that it is impossible to succeed at work by telling only the truth. Sometimes it even seems that the workplace is a different realm from the world Jesus inhabited, and that truth is actually out of place at work Read more
Relationships matter. Clearly, we cannot always drop what we’re doing at a moment’s notice and attend to strained relationships. But no matter what our task, relationships are our business. Read more
What would our workplaces look like if one of our prime directives were bringing joy? Read more
Finance turns the conditions of human existence into opportunities to bring glory to God, to serve as stewards of creation, and to care for each other with justice and love. Read more
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TOW Project announces two new resources!
We are happy to announce that we’ve just brought two new resources on line: commentaries about work in Romans and work in the Psalms. We’ll be spotlighting resources from them in this space as time goes on, but feel free to jump in and dig around in the meantime for things God may be saying to you through the Bible about your daily struggles. Image: TOW Project. Read more