by Ken Costa
4. Rick Weinberg, “53: Johnson Flunks Drug Test, Loses Gold Medal,” ESPN, July 17, 2004, http://espn.go.com/espn/espn25/story?page=moments/53.
CHAPTER 5: CALLED TO CHOOSE
1. Augustine, Confessions, 9.4.11.
2. William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, ed. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine (New York: Washington Square Press, 2007), 2.2.15–16. References are to act, scene, and line.
3. Steve Jobs, commencement address (transcript), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, June 14, 2005, http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
CHAPTER 6: CALLED TO COURAGE
1. “I’m Forrest . . . Forrest Gump,” Forrest Gump, directed by Robert Zemeckis (1994; Los Angeles: Paramount Home Video, 2001), DVD.
2. J. K. Rowling, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination” (commencement speech, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, June 5, 2008), Harvard Gazette, http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/06/text-of-j-k-rowling-speech/.
3. Ibid.
4. Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin, Edison: His Life and Inventions, vol. 2 (New York: Harper, 1910), 616.
5. Henri J. M. Nouwen, The Dance of Life: Weaving Sorrows and Blessings into One Joyful Step, ed. Michael Ford (Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press, 2005), 202.
6. Richard Branson, The Virgin Way: Everything I Know about Leadership (New York: Portfolio, 2014).
7. “Elisha Otis,” The Elevator Museum (website), accessed April 18, 2016, http://www.theelevatormuseum.org/e/E-5.htm.
CHAPTER 7: CALLED TO FOCUS
1. James Delingpole, “When Lego Lost Its Head—and How This Toy Story Got Its Happy Ending,” Daily Mail, December 18, 2009, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1234465/When-Lego-lost-head—toy-story-got-happy-ending.html.
2. T. S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton,” Four Quartets (New York: Harcourt, 1943), 17.
3. Ryan Jaslow, “Internet Addiction Changes Brain Similar to Cocaine: Study,” CBS News, January 12, 2012, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/internet-addiction-changes-brain-similar-to-cocaine-study/.
4. Anthony Storr, Jung (New York: Rutledge, 1991), 102.
5. John Milton, Samson Agonistes in The Complete Poems of John Milton, Harvard Classics, vol. 4 (New York: P. F. Collier, 1909–14), lines 38–46; Bartleby.com, 2001, http://www.bartleby.com/4/602.html.
6. Isaac Newton to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675, Simon Gratz collection, 9792, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, http://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/9285.
7. Hillsong Live, vocal performance of “Beautiful Exchange,” by Joel Houston, June 29, 2010, on A Beautiful Exchange, Hillsong, CD.
8. For more information, visit http://www.bibleinoneyear.org.
9. Sam Wells, “God Is With Us,” YouTube video, 25:29, from a speech delivered at Focus 2014, Camber Sands, Rye, Kent, August 6, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruhx6Gm2l9w.
10. Ian Sample, “Shocking But True: Students Prefer Jolt of Pain to Being Made to Sit and Think,” Guardian, July 3, 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/03/electric-shock-preferable-to-thinking-says-study. The details of the study can be found in Timothy D. Wilson, David A. Reinhard, Erin C. Westgate, Daniel T. Gilbert, Nicole Ellerbeck, Cheryl Hahn, Casey L. Brown, and Adi Shaked, “Just Think: The Challenges of the Engaged Mind,” Science 345:6192 (July 4, 2014), 75–77.
11. Diarmaid MacCulloch, Silence—A Christian History (New York: Penguin, 2013).
CHAPTER 8: CALLED TO PERSEVERE
1. Andrew Bisharat, “Duo Completes First Free Climb of Yosemite’s Dawn Wall, Making History,” National Geographic, January 14, 2015, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/01/150114-climbing-yosemite-caldwell-jorgeson-capitan/.
2. Stav Ziv, “Yosemite Climbers Find Themselves on Top of the World,” Newsweek, January 19, 2015, http://www.newsweek.com/yosemite-climbers-find-themselves-top-world-300581.
3. Kevin Jorgeson, Instagram post, January 7, 2015, https://www.instagram.com/p/xkK2Z7pm0Y/.
4. Ziv, “Yosemite Climbers.”
5. Scot Murray, “The Joy of Six: Sir Alex Ferguson,” Guardian, November 4, 2011, http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/nov/04/joy-of-six-sir-alex-ferguson.
6. Tommy Caldwell, “Tommy Caldwell: What I’ve Learned,” Rock and Ice 217 (April 2014), http://www.rockandice.com/lates-news/what-ive-learned-tommy-caldwell.
7. Hillsong Live, vocal performance of “Mighty to Save,” by Ben Fielding and Reuben Morgan, March 5, 2006, on Mighty to Save, Hillsong Australia, CD.
CHAPTER 9: CALLED TO WORSHIP
1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834), in The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900, ed. A. T. Quiller Couch (Oxford, Clarendon, 1919), lines 283–86, 289–92; Bartleby.com, 1999, http://www.bartleby.com/101/549.html.
2. Karl Barth, “The Gift of Freedom: Foundation of Evangelical Ethics,” in The Humanity of God, trans. Thomas Wieser (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1960), 78–81.
CHAPTER 10: CALLED TO BREAK BORDERS
1. Hillsong United, vocal performance of “Oceans (Where Feet May Fail),” by Matt Crocker, Joel Houston, and Salomon Ligthelm, February 22, 2013, on Zion, Hillsong Sparrow, CD.
2. Ben Okri, Mental Fight: An Anti-Spell for the Twenty-first Century (London: Phoenix House, 1999), 9.
3. Larry Schwartz, “Beamon Made Sport’s Greatest Leap,” ESPN.com, accessed April 18, 2016, https://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014092.html.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BORN AND RAISED IN SOUTH AFRICA, KEN COSTA STUDIED law and philosophy at college in Johannesburg, where he was actively involved in the student protest movement against racial segregation in universities. In 1974 he moved to England to study law and theology at Cambridge University before joining the investment bank SG Warburg in the City of London. Over the next forty years, Ken continued to work in investment banking, becoming chairman of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for UBS Investment Bank and later chairman of Lazard International. During this time Ken worked in mergers and acquisitions, advising global corporations on their international strategies, and in 2010 he played a key role in the sale of Harrods—perhaps the most famous department store in the world. In 2016, he was nominated as one of the City of London’s top deal advisors of the last twenty years. His first book, God at Work, drew on this experience to explore what it means to live every day with purpose in the workplace. Ken also went on to make a series of short films called God at Work Conversations, which can be found at www.godatwork.org.uk/conversations.
Besides his commercial work, Ken has spent much of his adult life involved in the leadership of Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB), the largest Anglican church in the United Kingdom, where he preaches regularly. He is dean of the HTB Leadership College London, which trains those in their twenties and thirties to be distinctive Christian leaders in their workplaces, and is also chairman of Alpha International—an evangelistic course born out of HTB, which has so far taught the basics of Christianity to an estimated 27 million people worldwide. He is chairman of Worship Central, a movement promoting worship events and courses across the globe. It was also at Cambridge that Ken got to know the current archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, whose reconciliation and evangelism work he now supports as chairman of the Lambeth Trust.
Given his professional experience, Ken has regularly been asked to speak on financial, ethical, and Christian issues at conferences and churches around the world. As emeritus professor of commerce at Gresham College London, he lectured on finance and ethics in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, and in 2011 he led the London Connection—an initiative seeking to encourage dialogue between the financiers in the City of London and the Occupy protesters who took up residence outside St Paul’s Cathedral—at the request of the bishop of London. He was also a trustee of the Nelson Mandela UK Children’s Fund for more than ten years, is currently fundraising patron fo
r Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, and was an advisory board member of the London Symphony Orchestra.
Ken is married to Dr. Fiona Costa, a classical musician and research fellow at the University of Roehampton, and they have four adult children.