Most business advice today comes from one of two places.
The first is purely secular: sharp, data-driven, and useful, but built on a foundation that treats profit as the only real measure of success. The second is faith-based, but built for the pulpit, not the boardroom. It’s encouraging. It’s rarely operational. You won’t find a cap table in it.
Berea Capital exists in the gap between those two.
Why “Berea”
In the book of Acts, the Bereans were praised for a specific habit: they didn't were diligent and meticulous while at the same time faithful. They examined it, tested it, checked it against the source. That's the posture this newsletter is built on. Sharp analysis, checked against a deeper standard.
What you're actually going to get
This isn't devotional content with a business theme bolted on. Each issue is going to look more like something out of a private equity memo than a Sunday bulletin, covering:
M&A and dealmaking. Real transactions, broken down the way an operator or investor would actually read them, with the incentives, the structure, and the stakeholder tradeoffs made plain.
Investing and capital allocation. How capital actually moves, who's deploying it well, and what a biblical view of stewardship has to say about risk, debt, and return.
Startup data and operating tips. What's working right now for founders and operators, drawn from real numbers, not just inspiration.
A recurring framework. Every few issues, we'll run a deal, a decision, or a company through what we're calling the Stewardship Scorecard, a way of evaluating a business choice not just on ROI, but on integrity, generosity, and long-term faithfulness. More on that soon.
Eventually, this expands to guest contributors: operators, investors, and founders who are public about their faith and have real experience to bring to the table. If that's you, or you know someone it should be, reply to this email.
Who this is for
You, if any of the following is true:
You're building or running a company and don't want to check your convictions at the door to do it well
You're allocating capital and want a sharper lens than “does this make money”
You're tired of business content that's either spiritually empty or operationally shallow
You just want good analysis from people who take both the numbers and the text seriously
One thing you can do right now
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This is issue one of what we intend to be a long project. Thanks for being here at the start of it.