But then at the same time, we also know what happens in the faith space. So we know what faithless finance looks like. And you know, a couple of people going up to space while most of us are never gonna make it out of the town we grew up in. Because faithless finance gets us exactly where we are right now, with widening gaps, greater inequities, more marginalization, more consolidation of wealth. And I started to get at this in the introductory comments, but I think, why does faith have to be connected to finance? Why should they be in conversation? Because we see what happens when they’re not. That way, I get to just say, yeah, that’s exactly right. Again, I just want to say ditto to what Stephanie just said. And so, who’s to care for the weak and the faith community? So, yeah. Again, I harken back to my remarks when I think about the body and that the body is one unit and that it has all of the members working in it, but in it there is also some weakness in the body. The general premise of taking care of each other is at the heart of connecting faith and finance. It is rooted in the principles and doctrine, of understanding how we should be in community, regardless of the religion or doctrine that we follow.
My initial thoughts around, why should we connect? Why should faith and finance be connected? Because I think that without question it is scriptural. Thank you so much for having us back and for giving us an opportunity to be a part of the Q&A.
As the person who wrote the title for this conversation, I feel a little bit of ownership to immediately problematize the title, “Connecting Faith + Finance.” I want to kick us off by asking, why? Why should we care about connecting faith and finance, impact investing, entrepreneurship, community development? They’re all happening and can happen outside of the involvement of faith, so why are we having this conversation? Maybe to put it another way, is there anything that’s lost when communities and of faith people don’t think about this? Stephanie, I’ll start with you. Well, as we give some time for folks to put more questions in the chat, I want to start off our Q&A with a question of my own. Rachel Johnson: Stephanie, Elan, thank you so much for being with us today and for being part of this kickoff conversation.
I will be taking your questions and sending them to this all-star panel. I also have with me, Faith + Finance team member, Kevin Doyle Jones. It’s my pleasure now to welcome two of our panelists: Rabbi Elan Babchuck of the Glean Network and Stephanie Swepson-Twitty from Eagle Market Streets Development Corporation. We are so glad to have you as part of the kickoff webinar of our “Building a Just and Loving Economy” series. I’m part of the Faith + Finance team and it’s my great pleasure and honor to welcome you all to this webinar and conversation today. You can read the transcript of the webinar here. This is a transcript of the Q & A session hosted by Rachel Johnson and Kevin Jones of Faith + Finance with panelists Rabbi Elan Babchuck of the Glean Network and Stephanie Swepson-Twitty from Eagle Market Streets Development Corporation. In October of 2021 Faith + Finance hosted the first webinar in the four part Building a Loving and Just Economy series.
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