May 22, 2007
Smiles
I’ve a good friend who is a financial advisor with what would be called a “major investment house.”
She’s a lifelong Episcopalian, and probably the only reason I know that resides somewhere in her knowledge of my work and her willing and refreshing candor. She has not a lot of energy for either “The Church” or for “church.” For that matter, I’m not so sure whether God does either, but I am deeply confident that when God thinks about her, God smiles. I certainly do.
One very important and unique reason for that smiling is that she’s made herself something of an authority on who are those in the corporate world that practice fair employment and that are also environmentally friendly. She’ll not assist a potential investor to use money to empower any business endeavor that does not on its own initiative meet the highest employment and environmental standards.
If the love of money is the root of all evil [1 Tim 6.10], here’s a professional that can take that kind of “love” — greed is another of its names — and use it in the world of finances in service to the kind of stewardship for the distributive justice of which I suppose God might be rather fond. It’s a model, as well, for us churchers better to embrace our own and also to commend in our mission.
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