Tripping gracefully
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) supposedly started a riot when he discovered that, contrary to what the church taught and everyone believed, the earth revolves around the sun. The Copernican Revolution helped “science suddenly burst forth when a weakened Christianity could no longer prevent it.”¹ This makes for a great story except for one niggling detail. It didn’t happen that way. Huh? Don’t worry. Stumbling over truth can be fun, Horace Walpole said—but only if you know what to do after losing your footing.

 

 

Twenty business and educational professionals began The Clapham Institute’s third MBA Program (“Moral Business Administration”) in October of 2007.  Meeting twice a month at Dynasplint’s headquarters, the course helps business professionals reframe faith so that they connect Sunday to Monday.  The MBA program only accepts candidates who acknowledge the incoherence of most attempts to “bring Christianity into the marketplace.”  “They frankly don’t work,” said TCI President and Senior Mentor Mike Metzger.  “They sound great and have a lot of religious language, but most people cannot take Sunday school and connect it to business school.