The tail is wagging the dog. Proclaiming the year of the Lord’s favor does not require a 501(C)(3) corporation. The kingdom of God is not infrastructure dependent. At $347,000 per baptism, maybe it’s time to rethink Church.

Malcolm Salter's book may be the best informed treatment of Enron so far. And the questions he can't answer may be even more significant than those he can.

Dole Organic is attaching Farm Codes to their bananas, allowing customers to track their fruit back to the place it was grown and to view the farm's organic certifications.

Bernard Moon notes that the idea of "posterity" is a bit burdensome; so maybe its disappearance from our cultural norms is no surprise. So many questions and no simple answers... Yet, there it is, a solid principle for anyone trying to out with a biblical worldview. So where do we begin?

Al Lunsford is beginning to be concerned about Christian Businesses showing up in Christian Business Directories — use the word Christian as a marketing term . . . You can trust us; we’re a Christian company . . . And don't get him started on the marketplace as a mission field...

I love experiencing communion — The Lord’s Supper, Eucharist — as a celebration of God’s mercy and grace. But I have to admit I am challenged when Paul warns us to examine ourselves before we eat the bread and drink the cup (1 Corinthians 11:28).

It’s not until you’ve been royally screwed over by someone that you realize how impossible it is to forgive. It’s downright unnatural, like taking a bath with your cat. For Christians, most of us believe it is our obligation and duty to rush headlong into forgiveness the moment we are betrayed, as Jesus modeled for us in the gospels.

Bradley J. Moore longs for the day when he can talk in front of all his self-described Christian friends with the ease and depth of meaning he feels when talking to people who wouldn't begin to call themselves Christians.

In the last of three articles on the Time Out Conference, 2008, in Monterey, California, Dan Wooldridge reflects upon why the conference had such a profound effect on the men who attended.

What's worse than useless data is fabricated and misleading data cynically employed to create fear or confusion by people who really should know better.

A global customer experience management study by Strativity Group revealed a great deal about why most people think they can list on one hand the truly customer-friendly companies.

Jim Hancock writes: "If people trust us it is not because of advertising promising ours is a name you can rely on. Trust comes from how we behave in the world — from the bedroom to the boardroom. People are watching and have at their fingertips the means to tell others what they observe. Thus is the circle of trust, or distrust, made wider."

What can leaders do to defuse the current anger and lessen its likelihood in the future? Robert J. Bies and Thomas M. Tripp say: "The answer is to treat people fairly and, when that fails, rebuild the trust." If that sounds too simple, they say, "It is simple, and it should be basic (like decency). This is why, when the cynics and critics say that these are just warmed-over recommendations from the past, we reply “Go back to basics; we already know what works.” In fact, what got us in this mess were leaders ignoring those tried-and-true basics.

Jim Hancock writes: "Our stories shouldn't show up on the Employee from Hell website any more than they should on the Bad Boss Contest website.

InsideWork contributor Andrea Emerson highlights four time-tested practices to increase and sustain productivity.

John O'Leary, Tom Peters Company facilitator, tries to narrow down the meaning of all these meetings that tangle our days.

Whole Foods Chairman and CEO John Mackey notes that executive pay in the United States is 300 times greater than the wages of average workers. Are CEOs overpaid? At InsideWork, we think there may be an even bigger question: are CEOs under-challenged?

Bradley J. Moore reflects on the hard job of firing someone who isn't performing (and from all appearances never will...at least in the role he's in).

One Brazilian economist, a leading authority on the economic theories that explain criminal behavior, recently published a book designed to prod Brazilian policy makers to action.

Harvard Management Update offers Five Guidelines for Using Statistics, which InsideWork dutifully passes along with certain embellishments...

Dan Wooldridge and Jim Hancock team up to offer a belated tip of the hat to Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert for coining the word truthiness and a wag of the finger at businesspeople who settle for pre-digested economic thinking. Come on!

Howard Morrison has never found accountability to others easy; just a HUGE growth opportunity. How about you? Beyond formal job requirements, are you voluntarily accountable for your behavior in the workplace?

Historian and contemporary culture watcher Martin Marty comments on Hanna Rosin’s cover story in The Atlantic, Did Christianity Cause the Crash?