A 48-hour New Year’s eve free-will offering netted a Southern California mega-church $2.4M to close their books on 2009.
Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church posted his URGENT LETTER on the church website on Wednesday and by close of business Thursday church members had stepped up to close their critical budget deficit of $900,000.
Warren’s Wednesday morning [...]

Food shortages, food riots and skyrocketing food prices: the global food crisis has turned into one of the big stories of 2008. Not to fear: behind every headline and cover story lurks an expert—usually an economist—with a list of “promising solutions.”
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually [...]

According to a recent article in the New York Times Magazine, Europe is in the grip of “an anti-Islamic bias that is becoming institutionalized in the continent’s otherwise ordinary politics.” In the UK, a research report published earlier this year by the Institute of Race Relations argued that Islamophobia is hindering efforts to integrate Muslims [...]

The twentieth century taught us everything we need to know about human nature. For every grisly lesson learned on one end of the scale (the niche that belongs to Hitler, Stalin and the Khmer Rouge), we witnessed a remarkable example of sacrificial love for others at the opposite end (Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa and Albert [...]

Browsing through the stacks of my local library a few weeks ago, I came across a copy of E. F. Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered.
I hadn’t opened a copy of the book in over 25 years. As I leafed through the chapter on “Buddhist Economics,” I realized I didn’t have as [...]