Ben Nicka

In master's of theological ethics at U. of Aberdeen. Pursuing a PhD placing the lived ethics of finance and its historical roots into dialogue with theology.

[Ben Nicka @bnicka]

Last night, Hee-Jung, Eugene, and I celebrated her three years cancer free since Mayo Clinic surgery in January 2020 and eight year since original Sloan-Kettering surgery. Grateful!

[Ben Nicka @bnicka]

T.S. Eliot loved Beethoven's late string quartets, their 'fruit of reconciliation and relief after immense suffering'. They've captivated me this last year. Listen https://t.co/sTf2H9ZWGs and read https://t.co/Vybh0twb5i

[Ben Nicka @bnicka]

@pcurbo Thank you, @pcurbo. I'm new to this conversation and look forward to learning more. Your vision for Flourish Fund informs and inspires an outlook for the moral good to be done with capital.

[Ben Nicka @bnicka]

The Bootleg Series makes time for journeys into past days and past states of the heart and mind where Dylan made the difference. Excellent review here. https://t.co/mpMwQ1yqzC

[Ben Nicka @bnicka]

Finance features a process of abstraction that reduces securities and companies to the narrow facts of price, return, and risk. This keeps other morally relevant categories out of view. As an exclusive moral guide abstraction misdirects.
https://t.co/OkrhOOBIb4

[Ben Nicka @bnicka]

'What would I learn about finance if I compared my retirement and other savings to my charitable giving?' I wrote this article (https://t.co/s88uq7W6YY) to explore this question.

[Ben Nicka @bnicka]

The U.K.’s Faith in Business invited me to reflect on a #theologyofinvestment. This article (https://t.co/afsT8P65MO) is from a Christian standpoint (in the hope of bringing goods from my tradition into the public sphere), but I hope it can resonate with all people of good will.

[Abraham Cho @abrahamcho]

“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.” A Trollope

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

...the oppressiveness of institutionalized irony [is] the ability to interdict the question without attending to its subject. -D.F. Wallace

[The Gospel Coalition @TGC]

“So teach us to number our days
that we may get a heart of wisdom.”
– Psalm 90:12

Happy New Year!

[Abraham Cho @abrahamcho]

The Imago Dei means we must "search for the trace of God in the face of the Other... Those not in my image still bear God's image." J. Sacks

[Jake (the 80s & 90s never ended in my world) Rudh @JakeRudh]

From NewWave to Top40 & Underground to HipHop, it's NYE at @VarsityTheater. No date required https://t.co/p9SouSbDnu

[Aaron Earls @WardrobeDoor]

“Youth and beauty are not accomplishments” — @carrieffisher. That’s a good word for a culture unhealthily obsessed with both.

[Dean Curry @DeanCCurry]

Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God? Best analysis out there. @markdtooley #wheatoncollege #islam https://t.co/8hNIHNvVW9

[Miroslav Volf @MiroslavVolf]

At Christ's birth:
those hungry for power raged,
those smart in their own eyes scoffed,
those with eyes to see, kings and paupers, rejoiced

[Makoto Fujimura @iamfujimura]

"We live in a time between times." Roberta Green Ahmanson on my Golden Sea painting:

https://t.co/sMmOQazqlI

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

"O Come, Emmanuel"—with the rap lament of Shad E (Rashad Lowery). Shared last year—sharing again. All too current. https://t.co/HpSOOV8rV2

[Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT]

Before everyone gives up on the republic, remember that not even a single American has yet cast a vote for Trump.

[Joel J Miller @joeljmiller]

More on the newly published Hezekiah royal seal https://t.co/XRkOKvhI82

[Makoto Fujimura @iamfujimura]

Paying attention to see even after a stroke: "David Hockney's Yorkshire spring drawings" https://t.co/ZdYVva170t (thanks Joan)