Last updated - June 2001

Researching and promoting the application of Christian faith and values to business and organisational life.
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What is the Faith & Work Project?

The Faith and Work Project project is a continuing initiative, commenced in 1992, within Maine Consulting Services (UK), a small specialist management consultancy based in Blackburn, Lancashire, in the North West of England. The project runs in parallel with (and with cross-links to) the "normal" commercial consultancy business of Maine in the UK and elsewhere, especially the business ethics component of our consultancy work. We seek to avoid duplicating what others are doing, but to work in partnership wherever possible.

We aim to research and to promote practical approaches to the application of Christian ethics within business and professional life. On the one hand these must be morally and spiritually challenging. They must also be meaningful, in both language and style, to people wrestling from day to day with the down-to-earth realities of the business world with all its uncertainties and dilemmas.

I hope gradually to upload more of the study modules produced within the project, plus texts of speeches and papers from recent years, and am also working on the development of new pages associated with the Business & Professions Network, one of the pan-European specialist networks of "Hope for Europe" - a joint initiative of the European Evangelical Alliance with several other organisations.

A key partnership involvement is as a management team member (currently Acting Chairman) of the Ridley Hall Foundation at the Ridley Hall (Anglican) Theological College in Cambridge, England. The links here will take you to information about the Foundation's "Faith in Business" initiative and our journal, Faith in Business Quarterly.

I trust that these pages will be useful. Please feel free to make suggestions for the future.
 

- David Murray -

"Faith & Work" Booklets

Booklets based on lectures, seminar presentations, and from the project's research

1. People in Business - People in Need: How Can Local Churches Help?
   (Available free from this site, or as a 16-page printed booklet at £1.50 per copy, incl postage)

"Faith & Work" Occasional Papers

Occasional papers based on lectures, seminar presentations, and from the project's research, not yet ready for publication as booklets and uploaded here to trigger debate. Please do feel free to respond.

1. Appropriate Rewards for Management
2. Christian Hope and the Business World - a draft pre-paper for "Hope for Europe"

"Current Thoughts"

Occasional Short Pieces by David Murray, stimulated by events of the day

1. Fourteen Hundred Years
2. Business & the Bible? - originally written for the CARE magazine, "Light & Salt"

Some Ongoing Activities

• Development of futher Christian business ethics study modules possibly as an extension of those shaped around the "Pavel's PrintShop" case studies (published by CARE, London) which were designed initially for Central & Eastern Europe but have also been found useful by many in the West.
• Ongoing development of study/training modules building on "Seven Core Principles" of Christian business integrity, and with "The Interests of Others" (Phillipians 2:4) as a foundation.
• Current research programme - Development of further themes for a forthcoming book, "Business and the Interests of Others"
• Contribution to various Ridley Hall (Cambridge) activities and events, including editorial work on Faith in Business Quarterly.
• Various speaking engagements in the UK and overseas, including: June 2001 - Melbourne/Sydney; July 2001 - "Gospel & Society" conference, Slovakia.

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