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Topic: Money

December 18, 2008

Thursday's News & Ideas

Today's featured headlines:

  • Southern Seminary facing budget shortfall
  • Good news
  • Just one real leader, and we could have avoided this mess
  • After 146 years, a Brooklyn convent is closing

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June 17, 2009

Jason Byassee: Is it Christian to have endowments?

Those Christian institutions that lean on large endowments see themselves as working to give away their benefactors’ largesse in the most Christian way possible. And that’s a reason to praise God. Isn’t it?

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October 22, 2009

Thursday's News & Ideas

  • The mystery of online ed
  • Good thing you’re not in it for the money
  • Man plans, God laughs
  • How tweet it is
  • Clichés: Tempest in a teapot?
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February 16, 2010

Tuesday's News & Ideas

  • ‘Look at these kids I saved’
  • Your faith and your wallet
  • Pope meets with Irish bishops
  • Baylor president: Ken Starr
  • Give up the iPod for Lent
  • Living it up in medieval monastery
  • Everyone wants to be a hero
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March 26, 2009

Mark Chaves: Congregations give less to denominations

Denominations were in financial crisis even before the rest of the world was. For the past ten years congregations' income has increased, but their giving to their denominations has decreased.

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August 5, 2009

Wednesday's News & Ideas

  • How can you create a culture of innovation?
  • Washing away sin indoors
  • Church of England gets help to navigate financial crisis
  • Volunteering that doesn’t interrupt your schedule
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November 11, 2009

Mark Chaves: Why do fewer black churches have websites than their white counterparts?

An astute comment here on C&R sent Chaves back to his study. His hypothesis, that the gap reflects a difference in resources, was only partly right.

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March 15, 2010

Tom Arthur: Money is crucial to discipleship. How do I ask about it?

How does a pastor even begin a conversation about money without making people feel like the church just wants theirs?

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May 19, 2009

Tuesday's News & Ideas

  • To Dan Brown, all religions can be wonderful if get over the idea they might be true
  • John Calvin as pilgrim and pastor
  • The Gilded Era: Sold to the man on the back row!
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August 25, 2009

Tuesday's News & Ideas

  • Priestly boot camp
  • Free food and never hearing the truth
  • Opposites don’t always oppose
  • Swing batter! Ka-ching!
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