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Faith in Business Quarterly


Faith in Business Quarterly (FiBQ) is unique - the only publication of its type in the UK. It is a quarterly journal relating Christian faith and values to the business world, providing a forum to explore and promote the application of Christian faith and values to working life in business, the professions, and public and voluntary service. It occupies a strategic position midway between an academic journal and a popular magazine.

FiBQ has been published since 1996. It is the outcome of a partnership between Faith in Business and the Industrial Christian Fellowship (ICF), the longest standing ‘faith and work’ organisation in the UK. We welcome offers of thoughtful articles about business written from a Christian perspective for publication in FiBQ. Please use our Contact Us form if this is of interest to you.

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FiBQ 22.3: The Long Road to Employee Owned Status
After converting his family business, James Holden is excited that Employee Owned businesses offer a practical means of transforming capitalism.
FiBQ 22.3: Spires, Saints, Shrines and Sheep - Building Medieval Cathedrals
Richard Higginson shows how cathedral construction was a visionary effort sustained over many centuries, an impressive inter-generational community project.
FiBQ 22.3: Beauty at Work - Part Two
In Part Two of this series, Peter Heslam suggests that we create beauty when we love.
FiBQ 22.2: Beauty at Work - Part One
Peter Heslam provides the theological basis for why God sees work as beautiful, and why we should see it in the same way
FiBQ 22.2: Do my investments make the world rejoice?
In the context of the malaise which hangs over the global economy Reuben Coulter points out that our investment capital has the power to drive change and standards across industries, culture and communities.
FiBQ 22.2: When the ‘G’ in ‘ESG’ goes wrong
Gary Cundill relates his experiences as a Christian investor. He encourages Christian to face trials joyfully, and try to avoid making the same mistake twice by combining prudence and purity.
FiBQ 22.1: God’s Investment and Ours: Towards a Theology of Investment – Part Two 
Peter Heslam focuses on the portion of scripture that is most directly to do with investment: the Parable of the Talents. He suggests that, even if the parable is taken to be mainly about money, it is thereby also about virtue.
FiBQ 22.1: The Demon is in Too Deep: Clashing Orthodoxies of Investment and the Separation Thesis 
Ben Nicka issues a call to the asset management industry to direct investment to moral ends.
FiBQ 22.1: Investing for the Kingdom – Four Lessons Learned over Forty Years 
Chris Gillies has some sound investment advice for institutions and individuals.
FiBQ 21.4: Interview with Matt Parfitt, CEO of Grace Enterprises 
Grace Enterprises is a charity transforming lives through supportive employment in their sustainable businesses. Their key values are Excellence, Employment and Ethics - with excellence first
FiBQ 21.4: COP26 and the Climate Emergency: My Christian Response 
Val King draws attention to the persistent investment by large companies and churches in fossil fuels, and argues that protest is essential because only government intervention can bring about real change.
FiBQ 21.4: God’s Investment and Ours: Towards a Theology of Investment - Part One
In a four part series, Peter Heslam introduces the Faith in Business 'theme' for 2022. He notes ways in which the Bible depicts God as an investor and highlights the apparent recklessness of some key biblical models of investment.
FiBQ 21.3: The God who sees
Esther Ngéthe draws attention to the presence of God in the separations, tragedies, bankruptcies and redundancies of the pandemic. The God who brings light into our darkness and gives us a sense of purpose.
FiBQ 21.3: Digital meets sustainability: making things better and making better things 
Perspectives from the frontlines of digital and sustainable manufacturing, exploring the tension between our drive to deliver commercial results and our call to steward God’s creation.
FiBQ 21.3: What is Business For? Reconsidering the Purpose of Business (Part 4)
In this fourth part of his series, Peter Heslam develops his engagement with ‘woke capitalism’, at the heart of which are businesses that seek to address social and environmental causes. He does so, as he promised, by raising two of its pitfalls.
FiBQ 21.2: A Theology of Redeployment 
Steve Apted looks at the change already brought about by the pandemic, and then takes us through his own experience of three redundancies, and his relationship with God through each of them
FiBQ 21.2: What is Business For? Reconsidering the Purpose of Business (Part 3)
In the third installment of a series of articles, Peter S Heslam begins an exploration of ‘woke capitalism’, seeking to address this phenomenon from the perspective of the Trinity
FiBQ 21.1: What is Business For? Reconsidering the Purpose of Business (Part 2)
In the second installment of a series of articles, Peter S Heslam looks at how some thought leaders understand purpose. Although they reflect Christian values, he suggests ultimate purpose requires a theological starting-point.
FiBQ 21.1: Salvation Army and Foodbanks: A Major Procurement Operation 
The Salvation Army has forged some strong relationships with major restaurant and hospitality businesses to support local communities through the pandemic.
FIBQ 20.4 What is Business For? Reconsidering the Purpose of Business (Part 1)
In the first installment of a series of articles, Peter S Heslam considers whether the pandemic provides an opportunity to reconsider the purpose of business - what is business for?
FiBQ 20.4 Micro Homes for the Homeless: Can churches help?
Housing is such a complex, expensive and slow process to change, but Martin Clark demonstrates that a modern version of modular factory-built housing could result in a major reduction in homelessness. He appeals to churches to release land for this.
FiBQ 20.3: The Pandemic and the Poor: Harnessing the Digital Revolution for a more Inclusive Economy
Every day of this crisis sees more companies go bust, and those that survive fighting to keep their heads above water.
FiBQ 20.1: 10 Lessons from over 1,000 Kingdom Entrepreneurs in Africa and Beyond
Courtney Rountree Mills tells the story of her personal experience in trying to tackle poverty in Africa.

 

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