the mockler center for faith & ethics in the workplace at gordon-conwell theological seminary

RELIGION & WORKConstructive Insights for Today's Global Workplace

Saturday , april 26 , 2014 | 9 :00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Kaiser Chapel , gordon-conwell theological seminary

130 Essex Street , South Hamilton, MA 01982

REGISTER AT: https://my.gordonconwell.edu/ockenga/mockler-events/religion-and-work

130 Essex Street, South Hamilton, MA 01982p: 978-646-4098 | mockler@gcts.edu

$10 to April 23; $15 after(Includes lunch, coffee, materials)

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What do our world's religious traditions have to contribute to our workplaces and marketplaces? All too often religion is viewed as a negative and divisive force, an occasion for disagreement, a distraction at best in our workplaces and businesses. The reality is that these traditions contain many great insights, high ideals, and wise practical guidance for the work lives of their adherents.

You are invited to a conversation about religion, work, and business in which our quest is to listen to each other and to our traditions for constructive, positive contributions to our thinking about work purposes, values, ethics, and practices.

It hardly needs saying that today's and tomorrow's work and business are a global matter --- and that religious faith and values play integral roles in shaping most of the players in our world economy. What can our tradition and faith constructively bring to such a global, diverse workplace? What can we learn from our colleagues of other faith traditions? What do we have in common? How do we manage our differences?

8:30 Registration & Check-in

9:00 What our tradition offers the workplace(TED Talk type presentations; speaker info on page 2)

Sarbpreet Singh Mitch Tyson Claire Wolfteich Tim Patitsas Sharif El-Tobgui David Gill Sikhism Judaism Catholicism Orthodoxy Islam Protestantism

12:00 Lunch & Discussion

1:00 What is our agenda going forward?(Panel & Conversation; panelist info on page 2)

Bernie Adeney Joan Martin Laura Nash John Truschel Sonny Vu Educator Ethicist Author Executive Entrepreneur

Co-sponsors:Mockler Center for Faith & Ethics in the Workplace

(www.mockler.org)Boston Theological Institute Ethics Faculty Group

(www.bostontheological.org)

130 Essex Street, South Hamilton, MA 01982p: 978-646-4098 | mockler@gcts.edu

Bernard Adeney-Risakotta (BA, Wisconsin; BD, London; PhD, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley) is founder and Professor of Religion and Social Science at the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS), in the Graduate School of Gadiah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. ICRS is a cooperative, inter-religious doctoral program sponsored by secular, Muslim and Christiaan universities. Born in China, Bernie finished high school in Taiwan, and focused on Asian literature, religion and ethics in university. He is author of Strange Virtues: Ethics in a Multicultural World and is Visiting Fellow, BU Institute for Culture, Religion and World Affairs.

Carl Sharif El-Tobgui (BA (Arabic), Georgetown; MA, PhD, (Islamic Studies), McGill) is Asst. Professor of Arabic & Islamic Studies and Director of the Arabic Language Program at Brandeis. He spent a year as a Center for Arabic Study Abroad Fellow in Cairo. His doctoral studies focused on Islamic Thought, Law, & Legal Theory, with a dissertation on Ibn Taymiyya's 10-volume Dar' ta'arud al-'aql wa-l-naql, refuting the notion of any contradiction between true reason and authentic revelation. From 2004-09 he taught Arabic on the Harvard faculty.

Norm Faramelli (Chair) (BS, Bucknell; MDiv, Episcopal Divinity School; PhD, Temple) teaches Philosophy, Theology and Ethics at the Boston University School of Theology and the Episcopal Divinity School. He has worked in petroleum engineering, transportation, and environmental planning in both industry and government. As an Episcopal priest he has served parishes in New York, Philadelphia and Boston. He is on the Massachusetts Interfaith Worker Justice board. He is the author of Technethics: Christian Mission in An Age of Technology.

David W. Gill (BA, UC Berkeley; MA, San Francisco State; PhD, Southern California) is Mockler-Phillips Professor of Workplace Theology & Business Ethics and Director of the Mockler Center for Faith & Ethics in the Workplace at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (www.mockler.org). Among his books are It’s About Excellence: Building Ethically Healthy Organizations (2008/2011) and Doing Right: Practicing Ethical Principles (2004). Veteran MBA ethics prof (St. Mary’s College CA) and organizational ethics consultant (www.ethixbiz.com).

Joan Martin (BA, Elmhurst College; MDiv, Princeton; MA, PhD, Temple) is William W. Rankin Associate Professor of Christian Social Ethics at the Episcopal Divinity School. Among the courses she teaches are “Vocation and Work in Church and Society” and “The Church, Class, and the U.S./Global Economy.” Among her publications is More Than Chains and Toil: A Christian Work Ethic of Enslaved Women (2000). Her most recent essay is "'Women's Work' is Never Done: Women's Low-Wage Labor and Struggles for Moral Agency" in Women in Christianity.

Laura Nash (BA, Connecticut College; MA, PhD, Harvard) served on the faculty of Harvard Business School (2000 – 2006), Harvard Divinity School (Program Director on Business and Religion, 1997-2000), and Boston University (Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, 1987-1997). She served as President of the Society for Business Ethics from 1996-1997. Nash is the founder and managing partner of the Piper Cove Asset Management hedge fund. Among her books are Church on Sunday, Work on Monday (2001) and Believers in Business (1994).

Timothy Patitsas (BSFS, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service; MDiv, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology; PhD, Catholic University of America) is Asst. Professor of Ethics at Holy Cross. He taught previously at the St. Nicholas Orthodox Seminary in Seoul, Korea, and Marymount University in Arlington VA. His dissertation, The King Returns to His City: An Interpretation of the Great Week and Bright Week Cycle of the Orthodox Church, combined interests in organic order, liturgy, and the economic and political writings of Jane Jacobs.

Rodney Petersen (Chair) (BA, MDiv, ThM, Harvard; PhD, Princeton) has been Executive Director of the Boston Theological Institute since 1990. He teaches history and ethics for BTI schools, focusing on religion and conflict. He also taught at Webster University (Geneva, Switzerland), and the Fédération des Institutions établies à Genève (FIIG). He worked with churches in France and Eastern Europe. Among his publications are Earth at Risk (2000) and Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Religion, Public Policy and Conflict Transformation (2001).

Sarbpreet Singh (BSEE, Birla Institute of Technology & Science; MS, Pace) is CEO of Giaea, LLC, a consulting company focusing on remote development, environmentalism, and social media marketing engines, employing teams in India. He was previously President of einfochips and Global Edge Software, Senior Vice President of Flextronix International, and President/COO of FutureSoft. He began his career as a software engineer at GE Medical Systems and AT&T Bell Labs, then spent seven years with Lucent Microelectronics and Lucent Technologies

John Truschel (BA, Westminster College; MBA, Pittsburgh) is Global Head of Investment Strategy at the Boston Company. He began his career in 1985 at Federated Investors, subsequently moving to Fidelity Investments, then the Tower Group, before joining Standish as Portfolio Manager and Chair of the Asset Allocation Committee. Standish was acquired by Mellon in 2001 and then merged with the Boston Company in 2003. From 2007-14 he was Chief Investment Officer responsible for portfolio management, research, trading and investment communication.

Mitch Tyson (BS, MS, MSc, MIT) is an independent business strategy and clean energy consultant for early stage companies and entrepreneurs. He serves on multiple industry and government boards of directors, including 7AC Technologies, Big Belly Solar, and the New England Clean Energy Council. From 1987 to 2002, he helped transform PRI Automation from a small robotics manufacturer to the world's leading supplier of semiconductor fab automation systems. He is Adjunct Professor at Brandeis International Business School.

Sonny Vu (BS, BA, Illinois; PhD Cand/ABD, MIT) is CEO/Founder (2011) of Misfit Wearables, makers of wearable computing products. From 2001-2011 he was Founder/Chair of AgaMatrix, makers of the world's 1st iPhone-connected hardware medical device. He worked as researcher at Microsoft and was Founder/CTO of Firespout. He has studied at Beijing Normal University, Budapest University of Technology & Economics, and the Hebrew University. His PhD studies at MIT are in Linguistics under Noam Chomsky and Ken Hale.

Claire Wolfteich (BA, Yale; MDiv, PhD, Chicago) is Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Spiritual Formation at Boston University. She directs the Spiritual Formation & Church Life Project of the Center for Practical Theology. Among her books are Sabbath in the City: Sustaining Urban Pastoral Excellence (2008), Lord, Have Mercy: Praying for Justice with Conviction and Humility (2006), Navigating New Terrain: Work and Women’s Spiritual Lives (2002), and American Catholics Through the 20th Century (2001).

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