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Jackson admits the company has made missteps in the process of going public and dealing with other Christian companies, and has had difficulty sticking to its business plan. "We got ourselves into several quagmires," Jackson said. "We've got to hone the strategy in '04."

Perhaps Jackson will find the words of his own newspaper's Perspectives columnist prophetic. John Maxwell wrote in the February issue, "No matter what kind of adversity you experience there is always a potential jewel of success contained in it."

Rob Moll is online assistant editor for Christianity Today.

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Also posted today is an article about how Lamar Keener and his selling of the Christian Times name.

More information about Kingdom Ventures is available on the company web site.

SEC filings, press release, and stock information on Kingdom Ventures are available from Yahoo finance.

Smartmoney magazine has an article about some of Kingdom Venture's sour business deals.

An Internet Wall Street group has released a report on Kingdom.

Kingdom's SEC filings are also available from the SEC web site.

The Christian Examiner has a FAQ, a statement, and more information about its dealing with Kingdom Ventures.

Bill Mann, from the financial web site The Motley Fool, comments "Given that Kingdom Ventures has been the vehicle for past promotional activity that has run afoul of regulators, one would think that anyone who wishes to keep his reputation intact would stay far away."

The Evangelical Press Association has released a statement saying that Christian Times Today is not an EPA member.

Christian Times Today is available online.

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June 2004, Vol. 48, No. 6