Article June 28, 1999 Issue

SEEKING SPIRITUALITY ... AT WORK

Abraham McLaughlin

The Christian Science Monitor

Every Thursday at noon, in a concrete-and-glass office building in downtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a handful of workers gather to bridge two realms long separated by a great divide—religion and business.

In a top-floor conference room, where the usual talk is of pie charts and the bottom line, this clutch of believers ponders the Bible. The topic last week: the book of John.

"It gives us an opportunity to recharge our batteries without leaving the workplace," says participant John Forney, an employee at Penn National Insurance. "And it reminds us there's a moral background to the way you should treat other people."

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