Wall Street and Christian conscience: why I'm a shareholder activist.(A SPECIAL ISSUE ON FAITH AND YOUR FINANCES)

From: Sojourners Magazine | Date: May 1, 2008| Author: Wennemyr, Susan | Copyright information

My father-in-law, a Swedish Baptist missionary, did not invest in stocks on principle. As he was also the most joyous person I've known, I responded to his abstention like the woman in the dell scene of When Hatred Met Sally: "I'll have what he's having!" Maybe I; too, should own no stocks as a point of Christian conscience. As a freshly minted Quaker theologian when this question first crossed my path, it sounded good to me.

Since then, I have added to my Ph.D. a "FINRA...

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