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Change across Cultures: A Narrative Approach to Social Transformation is unavailable, but you can change that!

C. S. Lewis compared the task of ethical inquiry to sailing a fleet of ships; the primary task is avoiding collisions. When introducing cultural change, such collisions are inevitable. Bruce Bradshaw provides expert instruction for navigating these cultural clashes. Bradshaw contends that lasting change comes only through altering the stories by which people live. The Bible is the...

Christians who support the payment of incentives agree that payments cannot be made if they support injustice; they should not pay bribes for illegal or immoral services. However, the practices of giving gifts and incentives support culturally specific values with culturally relative expressions. In this sense, giving tips, gifts, and incentives to public servants in many countries is somewhat analogous to giving tips to people in other cultures who provide personal services, such as servers in restaurants,
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