by Zach Dawes Jr | Aug 2, 2021 | News
The number of U.S. households contributing to charitable causes fell below 50% in 2018, according to a report from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy released July 27. Only 49.6% of households engaged in charitable giving, a 16.6% decline from...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Jul 23, 2021 | News
How can houses and people of faith in the U.S. support innovative, faith-based initiatives that are taking place outside the stained-glass walls of local congregations? A nonprofit organization launched in 2019 by Amy Butler provides one avenue. Invested Faith affirms...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Jul 22, 2021 | News
Confidence among U.S. adults in the church or organized religion declined in 2021, along with all but one of the other institutions surveyed by Gallup. The report, published July 14, is an annual survey that asks respondents to share the level of confidence they have...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Jul 19, 2021 | News
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought an estimated 320 million more people into a situation of food insecurity, according to the United Nations’ annual report, The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, published July 12. Food security is defined in the report...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Jul 16, 2021 | News
Most U.S. churchgoers heard sermons in the fall of 2020 that mentioned the pandemic, the election and/or racism, according to a Pew Research Center report published July 8. Pew analyzed sermons published online between Aug. 31 and Nov. 8, 2020, finding that 83% of all...
by Good Faith Media | Jul 15, 2021 | News
Pa-Pa always said he was “going to Mullinix” whenever someone asked him where he was heading, shares Jerry Haywood in the latest book from Nurturing Faith, the publishing imprint of Good Faith Media. The phrase stayed with him, and Haywood “adopted ‘Mullinix’ as a...
