The Spiritual Art of Business:
CONNECTING THE DAILY WITH THE DIVINE
by Barry L. Rowan
A short, easy read from a truly accomplished man with a truly sincere heart, this read more like a devotional and was useful and inspiring. The takeaway line for me in one of the final chapters: “Business is the only institution that creates economic value; all other institutions distribute it.” Wisdom.
The Ownership Dividend:
THE COMING PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE U.S. STOCK MARKET
by Daniel Peris
A historical treatise, really, with a masterful reiteration of the case for cash flow-based investing. Peris’s chops as an academic historian are on full display as he breaks down the fascinating history of investor psychology around dividends. He suggests multiple factors that converged over several decades to alter investor sentiment, and how this same factors now suggest a reversion to the mean in investor logic.
Neo-Calvinism:
A THEOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION
by Cory Brock and Gray Sutanto
I haven’t enjoyed reading a theological treatise this much in a long, long time. It helps that the subjects of the book are two of my all-time favorites, Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck. The book does as good a job as anything I have read demonstrating how Kuyperian thought was the real inheritance of Calvinism, and that in our understanding of grace restoring nature we not only counter the rationalism embedded in so much Aristotelian and Thomistic thought, but also inherit a framework for understanding the totality of our lives.