This is a conference designed for new entrepreneurs wanting to apply their faith to a start up business; or seasoned entrepreneurs wanting to experiment by applying their faith in existing businesses. Exploring business as a possible expression of God's inventive, risk-taking character, this conference will offer a Christian critique of current business practice and of social enterprises. Using research findings, case studies and current experimentation at Regent College, presenters will generate a dialogue between current practices and new and creative ways to apply the Christian faith in a business context. Since true knowing is more than head knowledge, facilitated breakout groups will engage participants in the design of Christian social enterprises. Participants will also devise methods of testing their designs, and those who wish will be given an opportunity to compete for the title of "Best Test Demonstrator," the winner of which will partner with the Marketplace Institute of Regent College to further develop their design's operation and evaluation.

Michael Hodson Ph.D. (University of Cambridge), B. Th. (University of Wales), BA, MA (Queen's) has worked extensively in business and academia integrating the theory and practice of his Christian Faith in the United Kingdom.

Mark Mayhew MEng (Nottingham), MCS (Regent College) is Head of Missional Communities, Marketplace Institute, Regent College. Mark has worked globally as a consultant on strategy, business improvement and design.

R. Paul Stevens is Professor Emeritus of Marketplace Theology at Regent College. He is the author of Liberating the Laity, Disciplines of the Hungry Heart, The Other Six Days, Marriage Spirituality, Doing God's Business and co-editor (with Robert J. Banks) of The Complete Book of Everyday Christianity.

Rikk E. Watts is Professor of New Testament at Regent College. He is author of a recently published book on the use of Isaiah in the Gospel of Mark entitled Isaiah's New Exodus in Mark.

Paul Williams (BA, MA, MSc (Oxford), MCS (Regent College)) is David J Brown Family Associate Professor of Marketplace Theology and Leadership at Regent College.He is also a Director and Economic Advisor to DTZ Holdings, an international real estate consulting and investment banking group. He came to Regent from his most recent role as Chief Economist and Head of International Research for DTZ.

Presented by Cardus and the Marketplace Institute, Regent College

“God and the Global Economy” was a two day conference that invited some of the best thinkers and practitioners in international political economy and theology to respond to the Pope’s encyclical Caritas in Veritate. These responses will continue to refine and expand on the dialogue that the Pope has created through this important document, and bring some of its critical insights—and problems—into Protestant focus. The conference featured an emphasis on both theological and theoretical reflection on the one hand, and policy development, institutional design and implementation on the other.

The papal encyclical Caritas in Veritate published in July 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI continues a tradition of sophisticated theological engagement of catholic social teaching with contemporary issues in political economy. The encyclical has aroused considerable interest and debate, especially amongst Catholics and evangelicals. The organisers of this conference were behind the publication in August of an open letter signed by many prominent evangelicals (see www.doingthetruth.org) and published in First Things and Books and Culture. The letter recognises the significance of the encyclical and calls on Christians, especially evangelicals, to engage and respond to it. This conference is part of that response.

Stephen Long is Professor of Systematic Theology at Marquette University and the author of The Divine Economy: Theology and Market, which details a Christian approach to economics based in the school of Radical orthodoxy.

Paul Mills is a Senior Economist in the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department.

Fr. Raymond de Souza is a trained economist, father within the Kingston Archdiocese and regular contributor to various Canadian publications.

Paul Oslington is professor at Australian Catholic University where his appointment is jointly in the School of Business and School of Theology. He was previously Professor of Economics and Finance at University of Notre Dame.

Ray Pennings is a Senior Fellow and Director of Research at Cardus and is one of Canada’s top authorities on industrial relations, public policy and political activism.

Mark Polet brings 33 years of experience as a professional biologist reconciling the tension between man-made and natural ecologies through environmental impact assessments, habitat restoration, and integrated environmental and occupational health systems in thirteen countries. As an entrepreneur, he has established three environmental firms, and currently works for Klohn Crippen Berger. Mark is also a liturgical poet.

Iain W. Provan is the E. Marshall Shepherd Professor of Biblical Studies (Old Testament) at Regent College. He has authored commentaries on 1 & 2 Kings, Ecclesiastes & Song of Songs, and Lamentations, as well as numerous scholarly articles.

Peter Stockland is the Executive Director of the Centre for Cultural Renewal. Mr. Stockland comes to the executive director’s position from Readers’ Digest Magazines Canada Ltd., where he was vice-president of English-language magazines. He currently runs his own media relations company, Prima Communication, in Montreal.

Gideon Strauss is president of the Center for Public Justice and editor of Comment. From 1999 to 2009, he was research and education director for the Christian Labour Association of Canada.

Paul Williams (BA, MA, MSc (Oxford), MCS (Regent College)) is David J Brown Family Associate Professor of Marketplace Theology and Leadership at Regent College.He is also a Director and Economic Advisor to DTZ Holdings, an international real estate consulting and investment banking group. He came to Regent from his most recent role as Chief Economist and Head of International Research for DTZ.

Jonathan Wellum is the current CEO and CIO of RockLinc Investment Partners and was formerly the CEO of AIC Limited.

Emile Van Velsen is Sector Manager on Policy, Communications and International Departments at CNV (National Federation of Christian Trade Unions in the Netherlands).

In an international political scene characterized by realities such as the Eurozone crisis, divisive party politics, continued polarization of the American electorate along religious lines, and a wave of civil uprisings in the Arab world, this conference offers world-class speakers exploring fresh and meaningful ways of addressing the fractured nature of politics in our world. Mark Mayhew of the Regent College Marketplace Institute hosts and Iwan Russell-Jones serves as a respondent. Sessions include:

• How Religion Went Bad: Christianity in an Age of Heresy - Ross Douthat
• Faith and Politics: Who Will Put Humpty-Dumpty Together Again? - Hans Boersma
• Bowls of Blood and Incense: The Politics of Martyrdom - Peter Leithart
• Holy Ambivalence: Secular Liturgies, Divine Politics? - James K.A. Smith

Ross Douthat is a regular op-ed writer for the New York Times and author of Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream, and Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class.

Hans Boersma sits in the J. I. Packer Chair of Theology at Regent College. He is the author or editor of several books, including A Hot Pepper Corn: Richard Baxter's Doctrine of Justification in Its Seventeenth-Century Context of Controversy and Violence, Hospitality and the Cross.

Peter Leithart Senior Fellow of Theology, New St. Andrews College. Dr. Leithart has served as editor and writer for American Vision in Atlanta, Georgia (1987-1989), and as a pastor of Reformed Heritage Presbyterian Church (now Trinity Presbyterian Church), Birmingham, Alabama from 1989-1995. He has authored Against Christianity, A Son to Me, A House for My Name, Blessed are the Hungry, Wise Words, Brightest Heaven of Invention, Heroes of the City of Man, and more.

James K.A. Smith (PhD, Villanova University) is professor of philosophical theology at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author or editor of eight books, including Jacques Derrida: Live Theory (Continuum, 2005); Radical Orthodoxy and the Reformed Tradition (Baker Academic, 2005) and Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church (Baker Academic, forthcoming).

Iwan Russell-Jones is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Head of Christianity and the Arts Program at Regent College. Dr. Russell-Jones holds a BA (Hons.) in Theology from the London School of Theology, a Master of Theology from the University of Aberdeen, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Oxford. He has over 25 years of experience as a producer and director for the BBC, in both television and radio, and is a founding co-editor of the Ship of Fools website.

This is a Christian's in the Market Place conference from 1993. Titles of the talks are;

1. The Spirituality of Business I Eugene Peterson
2. Devotional Eugene Peterson
3. Learning from the Past Dean Griffith
4. Planning for the Future Don Flow
5. The Spirituality of Business II Eugene Peterson

Eugene H. Peterson is Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology at Regent College. He has written numerous books, authored a commentary on the books of 1 & 2 Samuel, and translated the Bible (The Message) into contemporary English.