Within Your Reach: The Beatitudes in Business and Everyday Life

Bill Bottum was the CEO of Townsend and Bottum, Inc. and the author of numerous writings about how to apply the Beatitudes of Christ in the world of business and everyday life. Sadly, Bill passed away in 2005. Shortly thereafter, his dear friends Dorothy Lenz (retired Congregational Minister), George SanFacon (retired Director of the Housing Facilities Department, University of Michigan), and Larry Spears (President & CEO of The Larry C. Spears Center for Servant-Leadership) and his daughters Olivia and Carolyn began to gather and edit his writings with the hope of making them available to all those who wished to read them and could benefit from them. These writings range from practical suggestions on business management, to Christian theology, to psychology and beyond but all offer insight and wisdom into how to bring the message of the Beatitudes into the practice of business and everyday life.