Author: David B. McCurdy

Living Out a “Social Responsibility”: Reaching Out to Congregations and Communities in a Pandemic

[1] The H1N11 influenza pandemic has created distinctive challenges and opportunities for healthcare providers. At Advocate Health Care, a large, dually affiliated faith-based system serving the Chicago area, planning for the epidemic’s resurgence this fall spurred recognition of both a need and an opportunity for vigorous, creative community outreach.2 [2] When the H1N1 outbreak surfaced […]

Commendable Realism

Review of Durable Goods: A Covenantal Ethic for Management and Employees by Stewart W. Herman. Soundings: A Series of Books on Ethics, Economics and Business. University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. Pbk., 256 pp. ISBN 0-268-00885-X. $20.00. [1] I have long thought that Stewart Herman’s Durable Goods: A Covenantal Ethic for Management and Employees is […]