Fr Pierre Goldie: Big Business Must Now Give Back
It is surprising to note how many commentators contend that the pandemic, apart from its devastating effect on life and the economy, is heralding a new way of doing things, a new way of...
Category: Fr Pierre Goldie
Pandemic Needs a Jubilee Response
The global pandemic makes new demands on society as a whole, including the economy. In the struggle with this seemingly implacable virus, business needs realignment, reorientation. Maximising profit in our grim situation, which some...
Have You Found Jesus?
I think it is relevant to repeat how Christ has been marginalised, how he has been constrained, reduced to Lord of the poor and of the sick, without asking why there are poor people,...
Put Jesus into the Economy
Our mission surely is to put Jesus into the economy. Mission is not just braving jungles and deserts; it is also braving the complex world of economics, challenging where necessary the unjust power structures...
Its All About Money, Even If It Hurts Us
In the name of profit at all cost, we see in the business world rather disquieting practices that effectively undermine basic human dignity. The World Health Organization reports a fall in tobacco consumption of...
Why Jesus Is Your Real Boss
Work was always the intention of our Creator, a mission to be co-creators with God in completing an unfinished world. We are told to “subdue the earth” (Gen 1:28), so that work should not...
Capitalism: We All Have to Do Better
There is a disturbing observation I have read: “Competition in a ‘free’ market has led to discrepancies in productivity, income and life chances between individuals, groups, and countries and continents that dwarf those...
The Big Rip Offs in Business
The mark of the beast in Revelation 13:16-17 referred to a certificate granted by the Roman authorities which permitted the holder to do business in the Roman Empire — provided they offered sacrifices to...
Where is God in Business?
Despite Yahweh’s admonitions on the consequences of Israel wanting a monarch, he allows them to anoint Saul as king (1 Samuel 8:10-22). Young women were required to work in the palace (as perfumers, cooks...
God Gives What We Don’t Share
God has provided generously for our physical needs, as the Gospel of Matthew tells us (6:25-34). He is a provident God who has blessed us with resources and talents to “subdue” the earth (Gen...
Whatever our Job, God is Boss
In the Book of Genesis we read: “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it” (Genesis 2:28). Happily, we have obeyed the first command, to be fruitful and fill the earth (although not...
Why Church and Politics Must Mix
I once preached that as God had incarnated himself into our world, so he wants to be incarnated into all aspects of our lives, including politics. There was a sharp silence, as if people...
