Is Business as Mission (BAM) a Flawed Concept? A Response to Childs

  • Scott A. Quatro

Abstract

I am appreciative of Childs’ contribution to this dialogue on BAM, and I agree with his characterization of Rundle’s context-setting article herein as providing a fine, overarching view of the BAM movement. I find Childs’ writing to be clear and compelling, and his knowledge of the BAM literature to be quite admirable. Indeed, his engagement with the BAM movement and literature is arguably much closer than mine. Put simply, he is a BAM enthusiast in both an advocacy sense and a scholarly sense, and I am not. And this fact is perhaps central to my willingness and capacity to view the movement quite differently, from the admittedly “safe” position of an outsider looking in. In doing so, I am compelled to point out the following most salient points of disagreement relative to Childs’ response to my paper and position.
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