Comments on: Where Do Evangelicals Stand on CEO Compensation?

By: Marcello

Marcello — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:11:30 +0000

This is somewhat off-topic, since Hamza Yusuf isn’t an evangelical (although he sure sounds like one sometimes!) and he’s not specifically addressing CEO compensation. Nevertheless, he spends much of his sermon from Eid al-Fitr addressing a number of current economic issues. I don’t always agree with the guy, but his perspective is almost always refreshing and thought-provoking. I’d say this sermon is well worth 30 minutes of your time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmaTyD7NnCI

By: mohamed

mohamed — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:55:51 +0000

“I hope that other religion jouranlists will begin to look at how religious groups are — or are not — engaging these economic issues at a moment of crisis. Send me links and I’ll update them here.”

As a Muslim I found this article very interesting. Thank you.

http://lagouader.over-blog.com/article-20379584.html

By: Kristin Williams

Kristin Williams — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:21:57 +0000

Prof. David Skeel, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania and an evangelical Christian, wrote a blog entry about executive compensation recently:

http://www.law.upenn.edu/blogs/dskeel/archives/2008/09/the_war_on_executive_compensat.html

By: David Rudel

David Rudel — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:10:53 +0000

I don’t see a problem with Evangelicals earning high salaries, even extremely high salaries. The issue is What do they do with them?.

If a Christian earns a great deal of money and then uses the vast majority in keeping with God’s will, I don’t think anyone can fault that.

The problem, of course, is that such things are easier said than done. As Christ said, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom.

By: Richard Pierard

Richard Pierard — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:20:01 +0000

As a life-long evangelical I have been a critic of high CEO and other executive salaries. For me it is a moral and spiritual issue. I find it interesting that the U.S. Army has a much better balance between the CEO (the US President abd/or Commanding General) and lowly privates (I was one myself many years ago)–the equivalent of a worker on the shop floor–than virtually any corporation I know of. Thank you for speaking out on this; I am with you all the way.