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CAREERS   |  Comment

VR Evangelist

Job Title of the Future: Linda JacobsonREAD»

CULTURE   |  Comment

At Least He Was a Consistent Hypocrite

Before he was exposed as a hypocrite about homosexuality, Ted Haggard, who resigned last week as head of the National Association of Evangelicals amid a drug and sex scandal, was already a hypocrite about the environment. As we ...READ»

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United They Evangelize

In one corner, we have "latte-sipping, Prius-driving, endive-munching, New York Times-reading snobs." And in the other corner, "Hummer-driving, Bible-thumping, fire-breathing, snake-handling fundamentalists." Just another skirmish ...READ»

Moving Heaven and Earth

When it comes to global warming, Richard Cizik and Jim Ball are hell-bent on making fellow evangelicals see the light.READ»

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VATICAN   |  Comment

Praise Solar: Vatican to Build Europe's Largest Solar Plant

Europe is getting a massive new solar plant, all thanks to Vatican City and the cardinal sin of pollution. Europe's largest solar farm, estimated to cost $660 million, will be built on the same 740 acres in the Vatican where ...READ»

Richard Cizik
BUSINESS   |  4 comments

Evangelical Environmentalist Richard Cizik Forced Out Of The NAE

"It looked like Tony Soprano had whacked one of his own. People asked me, 'Rich, do you still have a job?'" When I profiled Richard Cizik two years ago, that's how he described the growing tension between him and the National Association of Evangelicals.READ»

WORK/LIFE   |  Comment

Work/Life: Ten Commandments of Work/Life Balance

Ceo Dad's Tuesday Tirade.... As you’ve no doubt heard, the Vatican recently issued its “ten commandments” of how humans should think about behaving in regards to our cars. The document includes a reference to not using our ...READ»

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Does Your Brand Need to be Born Again?

Some brands are timeless: Tiffany's, Ivory Soap, even Coca-Cola. They're classic icons in our minds. They've stood the test of time. We know what they are and what they represent. Their brand story is clear and consistent in any day ...READ»

EDUCATION   |  1 comment

Education: Losing and Gaining Religion

With my last post about Brooklyn's controversial Khalil Gibran International Academy in mind, I couldn't help but notice recent headlines on a Hebrew charter school in Florida and Catholic schools in Washington, D.C. As I discussed ...READ»

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Look to the Catholic Church for Search Engine Optimization Techniques

After my analogy between LEGOs, Play-Doh and CSS (see "A Bettery Way for Organizing CSS"), I'll go out on a further limb and compare the best practices for URL canonicalization with what the Catholic Church has been doing ...READ»

Drop That Lasagna! This Is a Raid!

Watch out, recipe sharers and baseball-card traders! Now that the music biz is going after file swappers, you may be next.READ»

Ivan Glickman
WORK/LIFE   |  Comment

Work/Life: Policy is a dirty word

Customer evangelism tip: if you want to bring your customers closer to you, don't use the p-word, at least not to their face. Don't say "Our policy is …" because they don't want to hear about your freaking policy. They want to ...READ»

Fast Growth, Great Service

In a period of diminished hopes and slower growth, Convergys is a change of pace -- a company that's growing fast without sacrificing service. And it better not: service is its business.READ»

Outsourcing: What's Next?

We've heard a lot about American companies farming out programming, call center or back-office work to India. But we may be less aware of the offshoring of other jobs -- such as clergymen and soldiers. With Roman Catholic clergy in ...READ»

Evangelism

Quick question: Plenty of people talk about customer evangelism from the standpoint of consumers raving about companies, brands and products, but why is it that we rarely hear about customer evangelism from the standpoint of ...READ»

Take This Job and Shove It!

Ah yes, you've got to love the hastily penned resignation letter that doubles as an embittered list of grievances, invariably peppered with ill-thought-out sexual requests for your (by now former) boss to perform. The more ...READ»

Circle the Wagons

Everyone at your company is a sales representative. It's true or should be. Why leave it to the biz dev folks to bring home the sales leads? The company I work at experienced fantastic growth and a "we can't lose" adrenaline. Our ...READ»

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FACEBOOK   |  Comment

Facebook Gets Religion, But You Can't Poke the Pope

The kind of fame Facebook finds always brings its own surprising developments. For example: The Pope just joined. But elsewhere Muslim clerics are busy debating the merits and morals of the social 'net. Did Facebook just get ...READ»

social justice - Ray Bakke

"The real challenge facing the world is not geographic distance but cultural distance."READ»

Reverence for Radicals

Reverend Cecil Williams, of San Francisco's Glide Memorial United Methodist, is on a mission: He's teaching tradition-bound congregations how to stay vital by embracing change.READ»

On the Waterfront

An IT analyst pursues a different calling after the tsunami hits his native Sri Lanka.READ»

WORK/LIFE   |  Comment

My New Blog

  Frank Harber Senior Pastor, Champions Gate Church A noted Christian speaker, apologetics expert, author and media personality, Frank Harber is the senior pastor of Champions Gate Church in Westlake, Texas. Frank ...READ»

Bruce Anderson

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An Introduction...

Hello FC Now followers - this week is going to be fun. Interesting story that got us here in the first place. It all started with Alison Overholt's post regarding a poor customer service experience she had with Starbucks. She used ...READ»

Ivan Glickman
CUSTOMER   |  6 comments

Megabank Miscalculations: Still treating people like numbers after all these years

Last week in my post about coupon clippers I posted a photo of a sign I came across in Georgia. Once more with feeling: Smile Call customers by their names Thank them for their businessWe all recoil from cheesy and insincere ...READ»