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Mark Greene looks at Easter and challenges us to look for the opportunities around us.

It’s Thursday. You’re working for an engineering company and you whisk along to the coffee machine to refuel. And there before you is a bowl full of chocolate mini-eggs. And they’re free. Joy or temptation? Beside the bowl, there’s a little poster with the headline: ‘Mini-eggs and fluffy bunnies. Is there more?’

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- John Parmiter writes of his personal journey in finding an on-the-run faith

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- by Beverley Shepherd

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- Peter Heslam reflects on JustShare’s May Day activities 2002

Businesses face new challenges in the 21st century. While capitalism is helping to produce opportunities for entrepreneurship, income generation and development, it's also contributing to the widening gap between the rich and the poor and the destruction of the environment. This presents a unique dilemma for Christians - on the one hand, from the story of creation, we believe that business and wealth creation are essentially good. On the other hand, we believe the love of money (not money itself) is a root of evil - and a major cause of human and environmental impoverishment today.

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- Mark Greene meets Norman Fraser, a businessman with a lot of interest – in others.

The General Motors Company used to believe that what was good for General Motors was good for America. It's a somewhat arrogant view of the role of business but nevertheless a country without strong companies is likely to be a poor country. And one way to alleviate poverty and contribute to society is by generating jobs and developing strong companies. And it's a route that some Christians have taken through the centuries. And indeed today. Nevertheless, most business people don't look at need. They look at opportunity.