A trade unionist, a business owner, and a theology of work expert analyse how to deal with the challenges of labour relations from a biblical perspective.

The Church can and should be a place where people can talk about the loss of their business, their frustration and confusion without being pressured to explain it.

Businessman Rubén García addresses the fast growth of the technology sector, the challenges of the current economic situation, and the importance of support among Christian business leaders.

How does the biblical Christian worldview actually fit into the complex area of labour relations between employers and workers? A trade unionist, a business owner, and a theology of work expert respond.

Anglo Recycling is a textiles recycling business that sees value in providing dignified employment, developing responsibly made products and investing in the community.

Fluid IT aims to provide fairer service and release the potential of technology for his clients, pursuing social impact.

Ethical Addictions produces and sells coffee through direct trade relationships with small-scale, family farmers in South America and Africa.

London-based Yendy Skin began with a mission to bridge the gap between small-scale female farmers and the beauty market.

Just Helpers self-employed staff are paid at least the London Living Wage. This commitment is rooted in the biblical principle of honouring workers.

The Derby-based ice cream business offers a workplace designed around the needs of people with a lived experience of slavery.

The Jericho Foundation started in Edward Road Baptist church as a ‘jobs club’ for the vulnerable and excluded. In the last 15 years, it has directly supported over 8,000 people.

“Surrogacy should not be authorised or legalised”, says the evangelical entity, which denounces that “it attacks women and children human rights”.

The technology-evangelists’ goal is to provide products and services that are so compelling, easy to access, and intuitive to use that we can’t help but adopt them.

New Textile Life is a textile workshop that aims to give people at risk of exclusion “an opportunity to regain an independent life”.

Right now we need to reconnect business to its rightful place within society.

The investment in the American faith-based streaming platform shows the weight of Christian consumers as a niche market.

We are not free to maximise our own pleasure and happiness at the expense of others; such thinking comes not from Genesis 1 but Genesis 3 – it arose from the Fall. Much of the resistance to the reform of capitalism comes from a faulty anthropology.

Christians in business should model a better ‘new normal’ for business. This means intentionally building interconnectedness, interdependence and integrity.

In the Dominican Republic, 200 evangelical leaders call “the business and the political sectors to put down corruption and focus on the reintegration of ethics”.

This is the time for leaders to step forward, holding firm to their values and communicating them clearly.

“Banks and governments do not have to keep money back, but to be proactive and stimulate the market”, says the director of the World Evangelical Alliance Business Coalition.

“Bringing people together, focusing on relationships. That could change the economy very much”, says the head of the Business Coalition of the WEA, Timo Plutschinski.

The Bible offers not only encouragement for personal faith in a time of crisis, but also wisdom and insight to guide the Christian in a position of public leadership or influence.

A survey shows that 61% agrees. Only people under 30 and Muslims say businesses should be open on Sundays.