Online - Staying Human: Building God’s Economy
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“Who, then, is the wise and trustworthy steward whom the master will put in charge of his household staff? I tell you truly, he will put him in charge of everything he owns.” (Luke 12)
Together for the Common Good invites you to join their next online lecture exploring what it means to steward what we have been given: not only in what we give away, but in how we own, lend, invest and build.
As we move through a change of era, we see an economic model built on extraction exhausting itself, carrying the seeds of its own destruction, and as money and power concentrate, we feel the loss of agency.
Dr Melanie Rieback - cybersecurity entrepreneur turned pioneer of steward ownership and non-extractive finance - opens up what it would mean for Christians to build an economy that serves rather than extracts. Too often we respond only reactively - the emergency response to a crisis we have stopped believing we have the power to prevent - rather than proactively stewarding what we have already been given.
Three threads run through the evening:
Christian teaching on usury, recovered as a way of recognising extraction in modern finance;
A practical method for any organisation that manages money or runs an enterprise to ask where its own capital and governance take more than they give;
Steward ownership, which keeps a business or community enterprise from being sold off or hollowed out.
Who this is for: this special evening will equip and inspire all those who carry responsibility for money, buildings or an enterprise - whether you steward it, invest it, give it away, shape policy, run a business, or hold a financial role in a church, diocese, charity or school - indeed, it will be valuable for anyone thinking seriously about the Christian use of money.