An Atlanta family has received a lot of publicity for their decision to sell their big home, buy a smaller one and use the profits to help those in need.  The Salwen family says it all started when their 14-year-old daughter Hannah became upset with the unequal chances for people based on their wealth.  By [...]

I recently encountered this blog post by a Christian psychologist Richard Beck.  He writes, provocatively, “The single most damaging phenomenon to the witness of Christianity in America today is the collective behavior of the Sunday morning lunch crowd. Never has a more well-dressed, entitled, dismissive, haughty or cheap collection of Christians been seen on the [...]

Today I went ballistic. Trouble is I have a blog and when you have a blog your meltdown moments aren’t only witnessed by the doorknob. In this case I went a little bit postal when I heard that logos.com was giving away 72 “ultra-premium” Bibles over the next six months. Since when is there such [...]

True or False: No Christian should make a six-figure salary. If she does, she should give anything above $100,000 to churches and charities. Anything else is bad stewardship.
I say TRUE. In fact, when most of the world lives on two dollars a day, having a salary at all qualifies as filthy rich.
(Reminder: Quick Thought is [...]

The locavore trend has recently been getting media attention since First Lady Michelle Obama started an organic vegetable garden in the white house lawn, and enlisted local school children to help out with the planting.  As a busy grad student often cooking for one, I’m not exactly a huge boon to the local veggie economy [...]

I recently read an article in the USA Today about how the mortgage meltdown is trickling down to churches.  The story starts off talking about a D.C. area church that was building a 3,000 seat, $30 million facility.  They had already sold and moved out of the old building when all of the funding for [...]

Far fewer people seem to be bothered by the death of newspapers than I would have hoped.
My mother and I delivered The Denver Post for a year when I was in high school. Every morning that year, I came to school with newsprint on my hands. It stayed on my hands long enough to wear [...]

Pope Benedict XVI told Vatican City pilgrims that he hopes the worldwide economic crisis helps people rediscover “the warmth, simplicity, friendship and solidarity” of the “spiritual meaning of Christmas.”
How will the economy affect your celebration of Jesus Christ’s birth?

I’m used to hearing and seeing certain things this time of year at church.  The Christmas songs are back.  There are Advent candles burning bright.  And there’s a sermon series that’s looking at the problems with the world.  Wait…that last one is something I was not expecting.
Most of the sermons I usually hear this time [...]

Here’s an interesting response to the worldwide financial crisis from The Wesleyan Church:
The Board of General Superintendents of The Wesleyan Church calls upon the Church to renew its demonstrations of being the people of God in the world. In financially troubled times, we call upon Wesleyans to lead lives that are disciplined, generous, prayerful, courageous [...]