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Faith in Business Monthly

Faith in Business Monthly (FiBM) is a mixture of talks and interviews with Christian business leaders, expert coaches and practical theologians. It equips business people to navigate small, medium and large enterprises through an uncertain business environment from a uniquely Christian perspective.

FiBM takes place on Zoom on the first Thursday of every month, 12.30 tp 1.30 pm (UK time). After listening to a live talk or interview, participants can ask questions through the chat channel, and discuss the meeting's topic in breakout rooms. Each topic reflects the annual theme. The theme for the academic year 2024-25 is Just Grace: Forgiveness and Accountability at Work.

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Previous Faith in Business Monthly Videos

Below are recordings of the talks and Q&A at each of our previous FiBMs. They are grouped by each of our Faith in Business Themes.

Just Grace in Innovation

Ken Barnes, Kevin Powell and Camelle Ilona bring biblical insight to help organisations rise above the kinds of accusation, stalemate and risk aversion that thwart entrepreneurial endeavour.

Just Grace in People Management

Erouane Langard-Okenkali, Ruth Adams and Patrick Logan-Leckie discuss what practical protocols, conduct codes and disciplinary procedures best reflect justice, grace, accountability and forgiveness.

Introducing our new Theme: Just Grace - Forgiveness and Accountability at Work

We are confident that if you join us on this journey, you will experience God's grace in your work. This will change how you and your organization treat others - your customers, suppliers, colleagues - and make a difference as a Christian in the world of work.

Being Productive - Working from Rest

Being Productive: Working from Rest

Our Director, Peter Heslam, along with Ken Barnes and Chris Gillies, introduces our new theme, explaining that God puts rest at the centre of the gospel. They left us with a question in our busy working lives: Could it be that we have ignored God's gift of rest?

Resilience - God's Unique Gift

Jesus tells us that rest is not for God’s sake (as he has no need of anything), but for the sake of God’s creation. So in rest we gain Resilience - God's unique gift - as Ken Barnes and Rob Wright will show us.

Reprioritization: Reassessing our Values

The history of humankind since the Fall has been one of disordered loves, leading to disordered pursuits and priorities. Autumn Ridenour and Bev Shepherd will reframe and remind us what we truly work towards.

Resistance : Reclaiming our Time

God's first gift to his creation was time, so what we do with our time matters to Him. Yet in our urgent pursuit of success, many of us feel we have too little time. Natt Gantt, David Steinegger and Ravi Gidoomal speak Selah to us so we can rediscover God's gift of time.

Reimagination: Finding our Sacred Spaces

How would it change your work if you saw it as a sacred space? As a time and a place that God has given you and others to worship and find rest in Him. Kara Martin, Curt Hopkins and Peter Heslam encourage us to steward our businesses, our assets and our talents as an act of worship and trust in God.

Renewal: Healing our Relationships

Sara Minard, Michael Schluter and Fiona Brennan-Scott encourage us to outwork the fruits of the Holy Spirit into our workplaces and to the society around us, and answer the question: Can rest play a part in restoring households, renewing businesses and bringing communities and nations together

Redemption: Integrating Faith and Work

Jeff Hanson, Stewart McCulloch and Peter Heslam will deepen our understanding that Being Productive in every aspect of our lives means working to the glory of God and not ourselves. To apply this to our relationships, our values, our time, and our workplace.

Restoration: Being Productive - Working from Rest

This special Faith in Business Monthly concludes our 2024 theme of Being Productive: Working from Rest. People share what they have learnt and experienced through the year, and how they have been applying those things in practice. There will also be an exclusive video with highlights from our Retreat.

Beauty at Work

Introducing Beauty in Business

Did you know that you are beautiful? And that you are called to enhance the beauty of the world around you? But what relevance does beauty have to ordinary everyday work? Join Brandon Vaidyanathan and Anita Bennett as they introduce our new theme: Beauty in Business

Our Silk Road

Ram Gidoomal CBE will be interviewed by Jerry Marshall, and together they will discuss how purpose, dignity and love relate to our new theme of Beauty at Work. By sharing some of their life journeys, they will challenge us to discover the beauty of business and Our Silk Road.

The Passion and Wonder of Work

For Dan Maudhub and Steph Walker, work can be wonderful and transformational. When it is, it is beautiful. But how can we ensure more of our work is like this? Our first FiBM of 2023 will focus on the role played by the Passion and Wonder of Work.

Equipped for Beautiful Work

Simon Guillebaud, MBE and Jamie MacAlister show how God calls us to ‘Start where you are, with what you’ve got, how you can’ so we are Equipped for Beautiful Work.

Beauty in Transaction - Blessing Customers and Suppliers

Daniel Ghinn of Creation.co and Steve Apted of Salvation Army share a number of innovative ways to bless our customers and suppliers beyond the transaction.

Preparing for Beautiful Work

Our Retreat Worship Leaders, Geraldine Latty and Carey Luce, and some of the Retreat's HEARTtalkers and pray-ers will guide us in Preparing for Beautiful Work by sharing how they see God's beauty in their everyday work.

Enhancing God's Beauty at Work

At this special FiBM, participants at our annual retreat share how they have been applying learning from the event to their workplaces and in their lives.

God's Investment and Ours

Digital Meets Sustainability: Making Things Better and Making Better Things

Ravi Gidoomal and Steven Barr share perspectives from the frontlines of digital and sustainable manufacturing and explore the tension between our drive to deliver commercial results and our call to steward God’s creation.

How Birds Can Help You Fly

Chris and Rosanne Page share how knowing who God has made them to be, and recognising the needs in the world around them, helps them fly in the teams God has put them in.

God's Investment and Ours

Hosted by our Director, Peter Heslam, at our first FiBM of 2022 expert panelists Stephen Beer, Rosie Venner and Colin Low commence our exploration of God's investment in creation and its implications for our personal, corporate and financial investment.

Investing as an Act of Witness

In our business and personal lives, we constantly face choices. Each choice reflects an investment - of time, resources, talents and capital. Barbara Ridpath and Andrew Harper explore how to make investment decisions that more consistently reflect our faith.

Great to Goodness - Investing in Kingdom Excellence

Prof Terence Young and Rev. Phil Hanson lead a discussion about how far well-known models of business excellence might go in creating a platform for kingdom outcomes and what might be the blind spots and gaps.

Tackling Global Threats through Business

Gary Cundill, Jerry Marshall and Keren Pybus guide us in exploring how we can use business to tackle conflict, climate change and poverty.

Preparing for God's Investment in You

This special Faith in Business Monthly reveals some of the vision behind our 2022 Cambridge Leadership Retreat, introduces some of the Retreat's HEARTtalkers, and illustrates how participants can expect to benefit.

Stewarding God's Investment in You

Our 2022 leadership retreat featured heart-felt worship, honest talks, inspiring theology, deep prayer and strengthened relationships. Participants share things they experienced and learned at the retreat, and how they have been applying those things in practice

Investing - How it Changes the World

John Featherby and Fiona Brennan-Scott discuss how businesses can be a source of both positive change and prosperity - through which people lead purposeful lives.

Investing in Christian Business?

Gordon Eichhorst, Reuben Coulter and Camelle Daley lead an interactive session designed to help us pursue profitable God-inspired solutions that will create the kind of world we want to live in tomorrow.

Investment in God's Mission

In our final Investment themed FiBM, Martin Palmer and Jo Plummer - guided by FiBM regular Rob Wright - will help us know what a Theology of Investment looks like in our own lives and workplaces, and understand Investment in God’s Mission for humanity.

On Purpose - What is Business For?

No sentiment in Business?

To call a novel, or a film, or a person 'sentimental' is generally meant as a criticism. But is there a positive role for sentiment to play, even in a performance-driven business environment? At our first Faith in Business Monthly (FiBM) of 2021, Jeanette Walker grappled with this question.

The Power of Purpose

Meaning and purpose can protect people from burnout. But they can also cause it – because they can induce a ‘hero’ complex (trying to rescue situations). This can harm their own wellbeing and that of those around them. Dr Rachel Morris provides insight from medicine, leadership and wisdom in the bible – a book that offers rich insight on meaning and purpose.

Collaboration - How to Find Unity of Purpose

What gets in the way of effective collaboration? What do you find personally challenging in team scenarios? Is unity of purpose in business important to God and why? Dawn Stallwood helps us explore, share and understand the importance to God of effective collaboration and how our individual contributions to teamwork matter beyond simple professionalism.

Proverbs - Finding Wisdom for Business

Our panelists Hannah Stolze and Val Mullally have both recently published books on biblical wisdom in business. Under the guidance of our moderator Peter Heslam, they will share insights from Proverbs - a rich resource for ordinary everyday life - and help us apply it to our workplaces. Our time together will begin with a short biblical reflection from James Holden and includes insight from Natalie Chan.

How can we live with Purpose in our Personal and Professional Life?

At Faith in Business, we have been helping people understand Christian purpose through our God on Monday series and our 2021 Online Leadership Retreat. Building on these, our July Faith in Business Monthly brings together Fiona Brennan-Scott and James Shand to discuss how we can live with purpose in our personal and professional life.

Be Wise As Serpents: Creating Sustainable Businesses

Continuing our series helping Christians to live and work with purpose, sustainability expert Duncan Gray helps us consider some of the most serious issues facing humanity today. Duncan will guide us biblically and practically, equipping us to build sustainable businesses that care for God's creation - as He has called us to do (Genesis 2:15)

Understanding the Social and Spiritual Impact of Purpose Led Businesses

Organizational culture and employee well-being are crucial to the social and spiritual impact of an organization. James Waters helps us explore these values, and how we can stir our employees to grow in their social and spiritual well-being. He will base his talk on extensive research, and on his experience of helping organizations implement a 'Kingdom Impact Framework'.

Finding and Connecting Personal Faith and Corporate Purpose

Stewart Vandermark shares the story finding purpose has played in his role as CEO of Nelsons Solicitors. He provides reflections on the connection between modern management thinking & and his experience of developing an understanding of faith and purpose in the workplace through his career.

Wellbeing at Work

Joy at Work in Times of Crisis

How can we find joy in our work in this time of national and international crisis? What is a biblical understanding of joy? Why is joy important? How can we bring joy to our colleagues, customers, suppliers and community when our relationships are suddenly so different? At our inaugural Faith in Business Monthly on Thursday 7 May 2020, Marjory Mair - founder director of Marjory Mair & Associates - helps us reflect on Joy at Work in Times of Crisis, reminding us why biblical joy is important and how we can

Keeping Emotional Balance in Challenging Times

In our July Faith in Business Monthly, Karen Kircher helps us understand how our belief system is created and how it impacts the way we interact with our inner selves and with others. She particularly explores these questions: What drives your beliefs, values and patterns of behaviour? What does God have to say about the battle in our minds? What steps can you take to keep emotionally balanced?

Shaping a more compassionate business model

In our August Faith in Business Monthly, Simon Lawson speaks from his own experiences in building a successful business with a compassionate business model, noting that this has become even more important as we live through the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the economy. He particularly explores these questions: How do we lead with compassion as we build a profitable business? How can we be more vulnerable as we lead our teams? How do we build a culture of trust and love?

Flourish as Remote Teams and Businesses

The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing us to many new challenges. One of them, for business leaders, is engaging teams virtually. What leadership styles are most effective in motivating those we work with? What is the right balance between online meetings and getting other work done? How can we be distinctive as we serve Christ through our businesses during the lockdown? To Flourish as Remote Teams and Businesses, a special set of skills is required. In our second Faith in Business Monthly, Penny Pullan - foun

Daring Greatly - Embracing Risk and Discomfort

In our September Faith in Business Monthly, Alan Colley explores how risk & discomfort can challenge our constraints, expand our horizons, develop our skills, give us courage & build resilience for all that life throws at us in & out of work.

Standing up to 2020: Life Skills for Troubled Time

This year has been a reckoning for everyone on the planet on so many different levels: politics; relationships; finances; work; education; healthcare; travel; race, & more. But rather than be reduced to victimhood by this punishing season, or drifting nervously until things to get back to ‘normal’, there are things we can do today to take back the initiative. Whenever there’s so much out of our control, there’s still so much we can control. And if we focus our energies on the right things, this’ll help us f

Love and the Digital Economy

How do we take Christ's love into our workplace? What place does love have in difficult business decisions? What opportunities are there for Christians in the digital economy? These have been hugely important questions for Carrie Longton in her 18 year journey founding and growing Mumsnet.com into the UK's most influential network for parents.

Learning from Covid

Books on world history will rank 2020 as an extraordinary year. It has been a time of struggle, pain, endurance and loss. But it has also been marked by kindness, service, community and growth. In our last Faith in Business Monthly (FiBM) of 2020, we invited five inspiring business people to share some of their experiences, and their hopes and expectations for 2021.

Impact of the Pandemic on Working Relationships

Simon Barrington and colleagues from WeAreCompany facilitate a discussion around the Impact of the Pandemic on Working Relationships. Based around a survey many of our Faith in Business subscribers completed recently, this will provide you with great insight as organisations start returning to their offices and consider what the future of work may look like.

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On Purpose - What is Business For?

Wellbeing at Work

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