About - Mockler Center for Faith and Ethics in the Public Square

About

Mission

The mission of the Mockler Center for Faith and Ethics in the Public Square is to explore and promote biblical ethics, values, and insights for today’s workplaces and bring helpful knowledge and experiences from workplace laity to the church and its leadership. Through its programs and resources the Mockler Center is a bridge serving seminary and university, community and marketplace, church and public square.

At the Mockler Center we value work of all types and in all fields, whether compensated financially or volunteer, whether for-profit or non-profit, whether in large-scale corporations or sole proprietor businesses. We are interested in church and community-based entrepreneurship of new endeavors, and in salting and lighting older, established businesses. We care about individual workers and their callings and careers, about ethical organizations and companies, and their impacts on the larger economy. We want to heed the warnings of the apostles and prophets about workplace temptation and sin — but still more, we want to light a candle with creative, redemptive positive ideas and not be content with “cursing the darkness.”

Mockler Center Program Objectives

  • Networking / Collaborating: connecting people for mutual support and growth; building vibrant communities of faith and values across all sectors of society; building fruitful, positive relationships between clergy and laity.
  • Equipping / Educating: facilitating lifelong learning and growth in biblical character, knowledge, and wisdom; equipping pastors to better connect with and support their parishioners; equipping disciples to take their Christian faith and values into the public square in creative and redemptive ways.
  • Serving: mobilizing and supporting disciples for lives and careers of faithfulness, excellence, and servant leadership in the church, the academy, the marketplace, and the community; mobilizing and supporting church and para-church leaders for service, encouragement, and empowerment of their various constituents.

Mockler Center Academic Contributions

In addition to running the Center, the Director is also the Mockler-Phillips Professor of Workplace Theology and Business Ethics, conducting research and teaching in the following areas:

  • The Intersection of Theology and Economics
  • The Intersection of Faith and Work
  • Workplace Ethics
  • Christian Apologetics
  • Financial Management
  • Leadership

For more information about the Mockler Center, its programs
and resources, or to schedule a conversation, meeting, or event, please
e-mail [email protected] or leave us message at 978-646-4098.

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