The holiday is a rare opportunity in the religious calendar to reflect on death. By ROB MOLL Note: This article originally appeared Oct. 29, 2010, in The Wall Street Journal. For many churches this week, there won’t be any Styrofoam grave stones, skeletons or spooky signs of death and decay. Instead of morbid celebrations of… [Read more…]
June 23, 2010
I first met Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove when I was reporting on the New Monastic movement for Christianity Today. At the time, he was just finishing up his first book while also participating in an intentional community, completing his divinity degree, and doing lots to organize the new monastics. Since then he’s written a number of books… [Read more…]
June 7, 2010
Listen in today at 5:10pm Eastern as Rob discusses “A Culture of Resurrection” on WORD-FM in Pittsburgh. Read more about developing a resurrection mindset in your church here.
March 9, 2010
Marge Schaffer is a nursing professor at Bethel University. As a Fulbright Scholar, she studied end of life issues among terminal patients in Norway. Schaffer is the author of Being Present: A Nurse’s Resource for End-of-Life Care. I spoke with Schaffer a couple years ago about how churches can better care for the elderly and… [Read more…]
March 2, 2010
by Clarissa Moll As young girls, my sisters and I sang “Abide with Me” when performing Barbie funerals. With all of our Barbie dolls lined up in rows, we’d intone the most somber hymn we knew. It was a hymn sung at our church during sad occasions – the Challenger explosion and the bombing of the… [Read more…]
August 20, 2009
This seems like a great step forward for Christian investors. It will make faith-based investing easier and more accessible to the individual investor. These ETFs follow specific investment recommendations of different denominations, and they seek to track the benchmarks set by the denominational funds. I plan to look into these securities. I would be happy… [Read more…]
August 13, 2009
Christianity has adapted—and thrived—in the midst of economic crises from purposedriven.com It was the worst financial panic that Wall Street had seen in decades. The crisis came without warning, on the heels of one of the most rapid economic expansions in United States history. Investment had been booming and New York was its hub,… [Read more…]
August 12, 2009
Church construction has become big business. With more than $20 billion spent each year on new churches, financing those buildings has also grown into big business. Last November, Houston-based investment firm Capstone Asset Planning launched the first-ever mutual fund composed of church bonds. • Most churches finance building projects with capital campaigns and mortgages. But… [Read more…]
August 12, 2009
President Obama’s budget calls for a decrease in the amount of tax savings that wealthy donors (those who earn more than $250,000 per year) can claim after giving to charity. The budget estimates the new rule would bring in about $318 billion over ten years. This means that those in the 33% or 35% tax… [Read more…]
November 19, 2010
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