The Hub for Chaplaincy and Faith-Based Employee Resource Groups
Opportunities to invest in companies that encourage faith conversations abound. Whether these organization employ corporate chaplains, or whether they use faith-based groups to care for their team, customers, partners, vendors, and employees, these businesses are moving the faith and work conversation forward.
Thank to the faithful research of some faith driven investors, interview were had with Faith Based ERG contacts to organize the companies using employee groups within their organization. Below is a sample of these groups—from one of the largest retail chains in the country, to car manufacturers, to insurance, these groups are on the rise.
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The World’s Largest Companies have Faith Driven Employee Resource Groups
A growing trend in today’s modern working world is to provide faith driven resource groups that allow team members to bring their whole self to the office. This is an opportunity for Christianity to make an impact and join the marketplace of ideas. Take a look at some of the companies making a difference.






























Recent Podcasts about Chaplaincy and faith based ERGs
Podcast Episodes
Today’s guest is Greg Lernihan. He is the Co-Founder of Convergint Technologies, which started in a basement in 2001, and is now the world’s largest electronic security firm with over 5,000 colleagues globally. As a thought leader in the Faith Driven movement, Greg shared his insights for those just starting the journey toward faith-driven investing…
We’re so excited to share a conversation today that we think is long overdue. If you’ve been following the website, you’ve no doubt seen the name Jerry Bowyer as we’ve featured several of his blog posts, all of which are must-reads. Jerry is a leading thinker in finance and economics and a frequent contributor for Forbes and Townhall. His writing has been influential in the Faith Driven Investor movement, and we think you’ll enjoy our conversation about reading the Bible, following Jesus, and investing as faithfully as we can…
If you’re worried about COVID-19, today’s special podcast episode might be the resource you need! Todd Wagner is the lead pastor at Watermark Community Church in Dallas, Texas. If that name sounds familiar to you it’s probably because you’ve heard Henry mention it in the intro to this podcast as the location for where we will be hosting our Faith Driven Entrepreneur and Investor Conferences this fall. In addition to being our host and a speaker at the event, Todd is also a great voice in the faith-driven conversation. His words of wisdom—or as his Twitter handle calls them, words from wags—are encouraging, challenging, and uplifting to all who hear them. And with our current events, we could all use encouragement…
If you’ve been following the Faith Driven conversation, you’ve no doubt heard the name Tom Nelson. He’s been featured on the Faith Driven Entrepreneur podcast twice, and we’re so glad to get to talk to him about the investing side of this conversation. Tom recently wrote a book titled, The Economics of Neighborly Love. In it, he brought his theological insight into the realm of finance, investing, and economics. Hear him talk more about it now…
Today’s episode takes us to jail. Well…not exactly. But we are interviewing a man who owns and operates a business that is run out of a high-security prison. His name is Pete Ochs, and in addition to working as founder and chairman of an impact investing company, he’s also working to make Hutchinson Correctional Facility in Kansas the best prison in America. How? Well, the answer has to do with his approach to multiple bottom line investing…
Today’s episode finds us all the way down under—in Australia with our guest Tim Macready. Tim is Chief Investment Officer at Christian Super. He has been responsible for the development of the Fund’s Responsible Investment Approach, which is applied across the entire portfolio and now incorporates Negative Screening and Impact Investing. Tim shared about how he set out to create the “perfect, faith-driven fund”. But then he realized…We’re all sinners. He’s a sinner, every company is led by sinners, and every company is a sinner. He talks openly about how that shifted his perspective, some of the tough decisions it led him to, and how he stewards that calling today. Listen in today…
As we think about how faith and chaplaincy intersect with the world of public equities we couldn’t think of anyone better to share about their experience than Donnie Smith, former CEO of Tyson Foods. Tune in to hear Donnie talk about what it was like living out his faith in a publicly-traded company, as well as some of his personal experience in Faith Driven Investing.
Today we are in Lancaster, Pennsylvania talking with Peter Greer, CEO of Hope International. Specifically, we’re talking to him about his new book, Rooting for Rivals. Peter is going to explain why he believes that leaders in the Faith Driven Investing community can multiple their impact when they focus on collaboration and cooperation. He raises an interesting topic that leads to a great conversation, and we think you’ll be glad you listened in…
Many of our listeners are familiar with Dr. Brian Fikkert as one of the bestselling authors of When Helping Hurts and several other books. He’s the President of The Chalmers Center for Economic Development, a research and training center that is dedicated to helping groups declare the kingdom of God by bringing economic development and spiritual transformation to the poor. He’s been a part of some fascinating new books that tackle some of the deep ideas of Gleaning and how it affects our view of Faith Driven Investing. Its an idea that they like to say is “Practicing the Kings Economy”. He’s on our podcast to share a little bit about what they learned in the process of writing these new books. Listen in to learn more…
Today we’re in Cupertino, California connecting with Christeen Rico. She’s on the International Expansion team at Apple. She spends much of her time focused on bringing Apple’s largest product—their retail stores—to life in new countries around the world. In addition to that, she is responsible for co-leading a volunteer team to define and execute programs that strengthen community and growth opportunities for the Apple Christian Fellowship, one of Apple’sDiversity Network Association. It’s a part of a growing trend that’s emerging in places like Facebook, SalesForce, Google, and many other companies. As Faith Driven Investors we have an opportunity to support these movements and encourage other companies to do the same. Let’s listen in on our conversation…
Welcome to the Faith Driven Investor podcast! This is a podcast specifically for fund managers, investors, business owners, and pastors who believe God owns it all and who care deeply about how we steward our investments for financial return and gospel-centered transformation. Today’s first episode features Henry Kaestner and Aimee Minnich. Listen in as they share what God has been doing in this movement and what’s to come.
Recent Posts about Chaplaincy and faith based ERGs
The Blog
Dear Lord and Heavenly Father, I pray a word of thanks for the people on today’s call who bring a powerful witness to the financial sector through their faith and their excellence in what they do.
Would you be surprised to find out that some of Jesus’ disciples could’ve been as young as 13? So was I. While we can’t completely confirm the exact age of the disciples, we know they were young.
The Baylor Angel Network (BAN) began in 2009—intersecting the academy with the marketplace—with a desire to engage students in real-world financial analysis and give them hands-on experience in entrepreneurship. To say it was successful is an understatement.
The pandemic has thrown into sharp relief a shift in American religious life. Growing numbers of Americans, especially under the age of 30, are not religiously affiliated or involved with spiritual or religious organizations.
It’s estimated that Christians manage over 150 trillion dollars. That’s over half the world’s wealth. That’s 200-300x what is given (around the world) philanthropically each year. Capital has influence. Yet many of us are content to let others determine our investment strategy.
In our postmodern world where religion has been privatized and individualized, living out our faith in the workplace is something that can end up being done in secrecy. As we all know, secrecy and solitude can quickly lead to a separation between our faith life and our professional life.
This week, we featured Donnie Smith, former CEO of Tyson Foods, on the podcast to share about the role of chaplaincy in their organization. And recently, CNBC featured an article that dealt with an employee-related problem at Facebook.
Today’s episode finds us in Tennessee talking to Donnie Smith, who previously served many years as CEO of Tyson Foods and oversaw record growth and some pivotal acquisitions.
It was June of 2017. I was at a Christian business conference when a pastor got up on stage and repented on behalf of the church-at-large. The apology was to God and all the Kingdom-minded CEOs and business owners in the room.
Janet Ward Black has been practicing law for 30 years. Listen to how Corporate Chaplaincy has influenced her law firm.
This week, we featured Christeen Rico on our podcast, and she gave us some great information about what Employee Resource Groups are and what it takes to form them. If you haven’t listened to her episode, it’s definitely worth checking out.
In his 13 years working at Sears’ world headquarters in Hoffman Estates, Ill., Michael Valleskey has survived recessions, manager changes, several rounds of layoffs and the Sears-Kmart merger of 2005.
So what has kept him going? His Christian faith — and his Christian co-workers.
Faith-Based Employee Resource Groups. This term may be new to you, or it may be something you’re already participating in. Either way, this episode is for you. Christeen Rico is leading the conversation around ERGs, and what she shared in our conversation was both informative and insightful.
Faith-based ERGs, once unheard of, are becoming more and more popular among companies on the cutting edge of diversity and inclusion. At Tanenbaum, we have advised many clients at all stages of the process—from deciding if the time is right to establish a faith-based ERG, to inclusive communications, to planning a launch event. Use these five tips as a starting point to creating a successful faith-based ERG at your company.
Chaplaincy has long been a reliable marker that leadership of a company is serious about ministering to the spiritual needs of its employees. David Miller, Director of the Faith and Work Initiative at Princeton has released a very compelling research paper on the case for Chaplaincy.
This isn’t an ordinary video on chaplaincy. It’s a story about how selfless love in the workplace can save a life.
Listen to Henry Kaestner talk about the impact of CCA at Bandwidth.com. Henry is the Chairman of Bandwidth.com and is a Cofounder and Managing Principal of Sovereign’s Capital.
“You can’t put a price tag on what the corporate chaplains bring to our organization.” -Steve Funderberke, Plant Manager Coca-Cola Consolidated Bottling Inc.
Corporate Chaplains of America brings you William Wolfe, Service Manager from Southeastern Freight Lines in Charlotte, who shares how they value their employees…
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Ken Barnes works as the Director of the Mockler Center for Faith & Ethics in the Workplace at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He joined us to share a history of the relationship between capitalism and morals, where the two began to separate, and what we can do to bring them back together.