An interview with the head of one of the most effective Pentecostal social missions in America.

A church-based café in New Jersey may be the future for helping people get on their feet.

A look at whether churches should expand through a missionary model rather than relying on professional entrepreneurial pastors to plant churches.

The recent recession and a movement favoring less government may contribute to recent poll numbers.

Church members' giving is decreasing in the recession, especially as a percentage of income.

The Big Reach Center of Hope offers a lifeline to Ohio's rural poor.

Food pantries feed more, waste less with client choice.

Lawsuit questions 'church related' retirement plans.

Family groups emphasized government debt and the economy as family issues this week. Plus, Christian leaders offered unanimous denunciations of church's planned Qur'an burning.

Why Christians should be wary of the late pop philosopher and her disciples.

Financial advisers, researchers, and other observers weigh in on whether churches should increase their operating budgets next year.

Short-term missions may be shifting domestic.

Where others have failed, the church must meet society's looming challenge.

For-profit Christian education is becoming more attractive.

In a bleak economy, Christian colleges reinvent themselves.

Richard Nelson Bolles on discerning God's will when facing unemployment.

More congregations launch job-search programs for the unemployed.

Recession reduces appointment of missionaries but not applications.

Recession shuts doors of Christian schools nationwide as enrollments drop.