Robin John

Faithful stewardship begins long before we decide how much to give. It starts with how we earn, save, invest, and use the resources God has entrusted to us. Nearly 300 years ago, theologian John Wesley preached a sermon titled The Use of Money, offering Christians a framework for managing their finances: Make all you can, save all you can, and give all you can. At first glance, those three principles might seem like separate financial goals. But Wesley intended something far more comprehensive. He believed that every aspect of our financial lives should reflect our love...

Faithful stewardship begins long before we decide how much to give. It starts with how we earn, save, invest, and use the resources God has entrusted to us. Nearly 300 years ago, theologian John Wesley preached a sermon titled The Use of Money, offering Christians a framework for managing their finances: Make all you can, save all you can, and give all you can. At first glance, those three principles might seem like separate financial goals. But Wesley intended something far more comprehensive. He believed that every aspect of our financial lives should reflect our love...

What does it really mean to be a faithful steward of money? In this episode of Michael Easley inContext, Michael Easley talks with Robin John, author of The Good Investor: How Your Work Can Confront Injustice, Love Your Neighbor, and Bring Healing to the World. Robin shares how witnessing poverty and injustice in India reshaped his understanding of wealth and led him toward faith-based investing. Together, Michael and Robin explore a biblical framework for how Christians earn, spend, give, and invest. If God owns it all, what does faithful stewardship look like? They discuss generosity, contentment, comparison, ethical investing, treating workers justly, starting to invest early, and the importance of understanding what your investments actually support. Chapters 00:00 — God Owns It All: We Are Stewards 01:38 — Robin John's Story and Calling 04:18 — Witnessing Poverty and Injustice 06:43 — Investing for the Common Good 08:05 — “I Am a Human Being Too” 10:30 — Christians, Business, and the Common Good 12:10 — A Biblical Framework for Generosity 14:34 — Make, Save, and Give Money Wisely 17:03 — Can Christians Enjoy Wealth? 19:17 — Contentment and “Enough” 23:08 — Why You Should Start Investing Early 25:23 — Connecting Giving to Its Impact 26:30 — What Are Your Investments Supporting? 28:05 — Faith-Based Investing and 401(k)s 31:00 — Why Investing Can Feel Complicated 32:29 — Ethical Questions in Healthcare Investing 35:16 — Business as an Engine of Blessing 37:30 — Seeing Work as an Act of Generosity 39:41 — Treating Workers Justly 42:06 — A Lesson From Working as a Valet 44:03 — Generosity and Christian Witness 45:22 — Doing Good Work for God's Glory 47:24 — Closing Thoughts Key Topics Covered • Biblical stewardship and ownership • Generosity and the common good • Contentment and comparison • Ethical and faith-based investing • How Christians should think about wealth • Treating employees and workers justly • Starting to invest early • Using work as an expression of generosity • Aligning financial decisions with biblical values Links Mentioned: The Good Investor by Robin John Watch the highlights and full version of this interview on our Youtube channel . For more inContext interviews, click here .

What does it really mean to be a faithful steward of money? In this episode of Michael Easley inContext, Michael Easley talks with Robin John, author of The Good Investor: How Your Work Can Confront Injustice, Love Your Neighbor, and Bring Healing to the World. Robin shares how witnessing poverty and injustice in India reshaped his understanding of wealth and led him toward faith-based investing. Together, Michael and Robin explore a biblical framework for how Christians earn, spend, give, and invest. If God owns it all, what does faithful stewardship look like? They discuss generosity, contentment, comparison, ethical investing, treating workers justly, starting to invest early, and the importance of understanding what your investments actually support. Chapters 00:00 — God Owns It All: We Are Stewards 01:38 — Robin John's Story and Calling 04:18 — Witnessing Poverty and Injustice 06:43 — Investing for the Common Good 08:05 — “I Am a Human Being Too” 10:30 — Christians, Business, and the Common Good 12:10 — A Biblical Framework for Generosity 14:34 — Make, Save, and Give Money Wisely 17:03 — Can Christians Enjoy Wealth? 19:17 — Contentment and “Enough” 23:08 — Why You Should Start Investing Early 25:23 — Connecting Giving to Its Impact 26:30 — What Are Your Investments Supporting? 28:05 — Faith-Based Investing and 401(k)s 31:00 — Why Investing Can Feel Complicated 32:29 — Ethical Questions in Healthcare Investing 35:16 — Business as an Engine of Blessing 37:30 — Seeing Work as an Act of Generosity 39:41 — Treating Workers Justly 42:06 — A Lesson From Working as a Valet 44:03 — Generosity and Christian Witness 45:22 — Doing Good Work for God's Glory 47:24 — Closing Thoughts Key Topics Covered • Biblical stewardship and ownership • Generosity and the common good • Contentment and comparison • Ethical and faith-based investing • How Christians should think about wealth • Treating employees and workers justly • Starting to invest early • Using work as an expression of generosity • Aligning financial decisions with biblical values Links Mentioned: The Good Investor by Robin John Watch the highlights and full version of this interview on our Youtube channel . For more inContext interviews, click here .

In this thought-provoking episode of Faith Ventures Podcast, host Norman Horn sits down with Robin John, guest author and CEO at Eventide Financial, to explore what it truly means to honor God in the world of investing and business. Robin shares his inspiring journey from a childhood in rural India to leading a Christian investment firm in the United States, challenging the "sacred-secular" divide and showing how every vocation—including investing—can be a meaningful expression of faith. Drawing on the principles outlined in his book, "The Good Investor," Robin discusses the biblical foundations for ethical business, the power Christians have to shape the marketplace, and practical ways believers can align their investments with their values. The conversation touches on real-world victories and tough lessons, from engaging companies on issues like slave labor in supply chains to transforming retirement portfolios to better reflect Christian ethics. Whether you're an investor, a professional, or simply seeking to do good through your daily work, this episode offers wisdom, encouragement, and actionable steps on living out your faith in every area of life. GUEST BIO: Robin John was born in a small village in Kerala, India, and immigrated to the United States at the age of eight. Robin’s family arrived in Boston as the only Indian family in an Irish and Italian neighborhood. After graduating from Tufts University, Robin entered the corporate world, where he recognized the immense power businesses hold to create value and blessings—or to cause harm and distress. Robin is the cofounder and CEO of Eventide, an asset management firm dedicated to honoring God and investing in companies that create compelling value for the common good. Eventide has become one of the largest faith-based asset managers, inspiring individuals to embrace “investing that makes the world rejoice.” Robin and his wife Jaunita have four children, who enrich and bring much joy to their lives. Together, they cofounded Darsha Academy, a girls’ school in southern India committed to educating and empowering young women in science and enabling them to reach their full potential. Robin also serves on the boards of Made to Flourish and the Derby Entrepreneurship Advisory Board at Tufts University. Robin and Jaunita are faithful members of their church. In his free time, Robin enjoys playing basketball and spending time with his family.

What if your investments could do more than grow your wealth? What if they could also fight injustice, uplift your neighbor, and even bring joy to the world? Joy probably isn’t the first word that comes to mind when you think about investing, but maybe it should be. Robin John joins us today to share how investing can be more than financial—it can be deeply spiritual. Robin John is the CEO at Eventide Asset Management, LLC . Views expressed in this podcast are intended for information purposes and do not constitute investment advice. Eventide does not provide tax, accounting, or legal advice. Eventide's values-based approach to investing may not produce desired results and could result in underperformance compared with other investments. There is no guarantee that any investment will achieve its objectives, generate positive returns, or avoid losses. A Life-Changing Encounter in India Robin was just 23 years old when his employer sent him to Pune, India, to support an outsourcing initiative. Although born in India, he had moved to the U.S. at the age of eight and was returning for the first time as a young professional. While staying in a guesthouse, he noticed two young men—Amal and Kamal—who took care of him daily, preparing meals and ironing his clothes. One evening, Robin asked where they slept and was shocked to learn they were sleeping on the hard floor of a hot, cramped pantry. “I had a beautiful air-conditioned room with extra space,” Robin recalled. “But they had no bed, no pillow, no blanket. And I looked just like them.” When he raised his concerns, he was told the guesthouse workers were not his company’s responsibility. That response, though typical in business, left Robin deeply unsettled. It pushed him into prayer, fasting, and a season of searching. He began to ask: “Is business just about profit? Or could it be something more?” From Disillusionment to a Renewed Mind Through time in Romans 12— “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” —Robin experienced a major shift in perspective. He began to see that work, business, and investing could all be expressions of love for neighbor and tools for redemptive impact. That shift eventually led him, alongside his friend Dr. Finny Kuruvilla , to launch Eventide Asset Management —an investment firm with a bold mission: to invest in companies that make the world rejoice. What Makes a Company Worth Investing In? Eventide’s approach centers on one key question: Is this company doing good? They look for companies whose products are truly good and whose practices serve others well—employees, customers, supply chains, communities, even the environment. Investing is a form of ownership, and when we invest, we are rooting for that company’s success. But Eventide doesn’t just embrace the good—it also avoids the harmful. In the book, Robin likens harmful companies to dragons that lurk outside the village in ancient stories, threatening human flourishing. Companies profiting from gambling, addiction, or exploitation—like sports betting platforms—may look appealing on a spreadsheet, but Robin challenges us to consider their deeper impact. As Christian investors, we must ask: What are we promoting in the world? Are we fighting the dragons, or feeding them? Cultivating Goodness, Like a Garden From the very beginning in Genesis 1, we see that we are called to cultivate, to build, to bring about flourishing.

What if your investments could do more than grow your wealth? What if they could also fight injustice, uplift your neighbor, and even bring joy to the world? Joy probably isn’t the first word that comes to mind when you think about investing, but maybe it should be. Robin John joins us today to share how investing can be more than financial—it can be deeply spiritual. Robin John is the CEO at Eventide Asset Management, LLC . Views expressed in this podcast are intended for information purposes and do not constitute investment advice. Eventide does not provide tax, accounting, or legal advice. Eventide's values-based approach to investing may not produce desired results and could result in underperformance compared with other investments. There is no guarantee that any investment will achieve its objectives, generate positive returns, or avoid losses. A Life-Changing Encounter in India Robin was just 23 years old when his employer sent him to Pune, India, to support an outsourcing initiative. Although born in India, he had moved to the U.S. at the age of eight and was returning for the first time as a young professional. While staying in a guesthouse, he noticed two young men—Amal and Kamal—who took care of him daily, preparing meals and ironing his clothes. One evening, Robin asked where they slept and was shocked to learn they were sleeping on the hard floor of a hot, cramped pantry. “I had a beautiful air-conditioned room with extra space,” Robin recalled. “But they had no bed, no pillow, no blanket. And I looked just like them.” When he raised his concerns, he was told the guesthouse workers were not his company’s responsibility. That response, though typical in business, left Robin deeply unsettled. It pushed him into prayer, fasting, and a season of searching. He began to ask: “Is business just about profit? Or could it be something more?” From Disillusionment to a Renewed Mind Through time in Romans 12— “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” —Robin experienced a major shift in perspective. He began to see that work, business, and investing could all be expressions of love for neighbor and tools for redemptive impact. That shift eventually led him, alongside his friend Dr. Finny Kuruvilla , to launch Eventide Asset Management —an investment firm with a bold mission: to invest in companies that make the world rejoice. What Makes a Company Worth Investing In? Eventide’s approach centers on one key question: Is this company doing good? They look for companies whose products are truly good and whose practices serve others well—employees, customers, supply chains, communities, even the environment. Investing is a form of ownership, and when we invest, we are rooting for that company’s success. But Eventide doesn’t just embrace the good—it also avoids the harmful. In the book, Robin likens harmful companies to dragons that lurk outside the village in ancient stories, threatening human flourishing. Companies profiting from gambling, addiction, or exploitation—like sports betting platforms—may look appealing on a spreadsheet, but Robin challenges us to consider their deeper impact. As Christian investors, we must ask: What are we promoting in the world? Are we fighting the dragons, or feeding them? Cultivating Goodness, Like a Garden From the very beginning in Genesis 1, we see that we are called to cultivate, to build, to bring about flourishing.

Robin John had a problem. He looked at the biggest mutual funds in America and realized he couldn't invest in their top holdings without compromising his values. So he and co-founder Finny started asking a different question: if investing is just allocating capital, where should Christians actually put their money? What started as a simple conversation about avoiding "ill-gotten gain" evolved into something much bigger—a framework for investing as an act of neighborly love. Instead of just screening out tobacco and pornography, Eventide began hunting for companies that actively serve their customers, employees, and communities. The results speak for themselves. Robin shares stories of biotech companies getting kids out of wheelchairs, trucking firms that let 90% of drivers sleep at home every night, and businesses that prove you don't have to choose between doing good and doing well. The data backs it up too—19 years of research shows values-based investing performs just as well as traditional approaches. This isn't feel-good investing. It's a fundamental rethinking of what stewardship looks like when you're managing serious capital. Robin's new book "The Good Investor: How Your Work Can Confront Injustice, Love Your Neighbor, and Bring Healing to the World" releases July 22nd, and this conversation reveals why he believes we're still in the first inning of a movement that could reshape how Christians think about money, work, and calling.

Citing Matthew 5:16, “Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory,” Robin John, CEO of Eventide Asset Management, traces his inspiring, Christ-driven journey in building an investment firm that “makes the world rejoice” by allocating capital to promote “human flourishing.” In this one-of-a-kind episode of Investing In Integrity, Robin John explains how Eventide’s investment philosophy goes beyond, “avoiding the worst examples” of exploitation, to actively “keep moving towards companies promoting human flourishing and the global common good.” “If a company's killing a person through their product and service, to us, they don't belong in our portfolio,” Robin explains, citing how focusing only on ESG criteria – without considering the specific effects of the actual product or service – isn’t necessarily sufficient to make values-based investment decisions. Additionally, Robin unpacks his philosophy in leading a faith-inspired investment firm which includes “a huge amount of diversity – people from Hindu backgrounds, Jewish backgrounds, and atheists.” Reflecting on the importance of integrity, Robin says that, “if I have to sacrifice growth in order to maintain a strong culture at Eventide, I would: culture is number one.” For anyone interested in learning from one of the most values-based, purpose-driven leaders in finance, this is sure to be an unforgettable episode. 00:00 - Intro/Career 05:15 - Founding of Eventide 10:36 - Faith & Values 18:28 - Navigating Pushbacks 26:48 - Religious Inclusion 29:56 - Leadership & Culture 37:31 - Rapid Fire