Drowning in Debt? Let’s Hit it from Both Sides!

Americans are drowning in debt. The average American is carrying over $9000 in credit card debt. Many also plus upside down auto loans, ballooning mortgage payments, and college loans.

Is there a Middle Class Lifeboat amidst this sea of debt?

“Yes!” say financial…

Martin Luther King’s Faith Questioned By Athiest Crusaders

Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, famous atheist apologists, are distorting the legacy of Martin Luther King.

While Hitchens calls Martin Luther King a nominal Christian, Becky Garrison, religious satirist and author of The New Atheist Crusaders and Their Unholy Grail, observes that the…

Keeping the Dream Alive

Owning your own home has long been the cornerstone of the American dream but, sadly, that dream is fading fast for many families.

Freddie Mac is a government sponsored mortgage program that has made home ownership possible for many aspiring home buyers. But…

Is Cloning Embryos Playing God?

This just in from Marcy Darnovsky, associate executive director for the Center for Genetics and Society. She tells us that today’s announcement about a California firm’s cloning human embryos are disturbing and may violate state law. This work, she says, raises three concerns.…

Family Values Stocks Rise While Dow Dips

To borrow a phrase from Disney’s Hannah Montana show: “It’s the best of both worlds”: Family Values Stocks that actually perform well.

Impossible?

Not according to a January 14, 2008 article in the Financial Times that rated the performance of the leading Faith-Based…

The Muslim Answer to The Passion of the Christ

A director who shares the ideas of Iran’s hardline president has produced what he says is the first film giving an Islamic view of Jesus Christ, in a bid to show the “common ground” between Muslims and Christians. According to the article, Nader…

Jesus in 2008?

I came across an interesting web site today - Jesusin2008.com. It’s a spoof, of sorts, on the political year. But the site has a serious agenda: to engage Americans in the process of debating the many important issues that our country…

God, Mammon and the U.S. Economy

The financial story of 2008 so far is the oil and gold rush on the first trading day of 2008. Oil prices crested at $100 a barrel and gold prices rose above $850 an ounce for the first time since 1980.

Recent polls…