January, 2009

For over 40 years, JoeAnn Ballard has grown a ministry that has transformed thousands of lives.

My top 5 books on personal finance.

How to pray in the midst of financial catastrophe.

Evangelical Disenchantment, Jesus and Philosophy, and Rapture for the Geeks.

It happens to be something that evangelicals are specially gifted to meet.

Battlestar Galactica: New life impossible without death.

Movie theaters are the new churches. Some congregations plan to stay.

Amid ongoing violence, southern Sudan’s Christians model a different kind of hope.

Foreclosure disaster drives California churches to launch home rescue efforts.

Abortion opponents head into Obama presidency after big losses.

Get the numbers on suicide, world affairs, and the Amish.

African American churches leave the inner city for the suburbs.

Groups reconsider their presence after another killing in Afghanistan.

Leaders hope decentralizing power will revitalize the movement.

Hit by the credit crunch, lenders anticipate fewer loans to the poor.

Wycliffe receives $50 million, Without Walls faces foreclosure, and other news in brief.

CIA lied, Bob Jones apologizes, eHarmony surrenders, and other quotes from the news.

Focus on the Family eliminates jobs, American Bible Society president chosen, and other transitions.

Publicly arguing for traditional marriage is worth it even if I don’t change many minds.