Just as America is often divided between red and blue and rich and poor, a new study shows a similar gap between Americans …
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From Chick-fil-A to Amazon, Why Companies Take a Stand on Social Issues
Last week, billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie pledged $2.5 million to help pass a referendum on same-sex marriage in Washington State. With the donation, the Bezoses became the largest public financial …
What’s With All the Offensive Alcohol Names?
Should consumers be able to buy Five Wives and some cold Raging Bitches? The manufacturers that make these products — a vodka and an ale, respectively — certainly think they should. Recently, though, state liquor …
Why Free Birth Control Will Not Hike the Cost of Your Insurance
Initially, the controversy over President Obama’s proposal that all insurers cover contraception focused on religious liberty. After polls revealed that 98% of sexually active Catholic women have used birth control, though, …
Finally, Services to E-mail Friends and Tend Pets When Jesus Welcomes You to Heaven Just Before Armageddon
Rapture: It’s not only an influential ’80s song by Blondie that helped introduce rap to the masses. It’s also believed to be the moment when the born-again faithful are taken up to heaven by Jesus, just before the second coming and Judgment Day (in the religious sense, expected by some to occur on May 21, 2011, not to be confused with …
112 Money Tips: Smart Home Renovations, a Guy’s Guide to At-Home Dinner Dates, and Savings Strategies Too Extreme for Most
This week’s roundup also features tips from a couple who manage to throw a wedding for mere $2,500.
It’s the Most Rant-Filled Time of the Year
This is a season known for making people feel jolly and merry. The festivities, pumped up and twisted as they sometimes can be, can also get folks agitated enough to want to sound off on how they really feel about holiday shopping, annoying holiday ads—and even about volunteers and God.
Medi-Share: The Christian Health Care Sharing Collective
Compared to traditional private health insurance, it’s a bargain: Family plans start at just $109 a month. But Jews, Muslims, atheists, and cancer patients need not apply.
What Would Jesus Buy?
The popular “prosperity gospel” preached to the adoring masses is being blamed for putting a lot of believers deeply into debt that they’ll likely never pay off. Guess they just aren’t good enough Christians.
When Will God Fix the Economy?
Even though God may occasionally punish the self-interested followers of capitalism, the Divine One can still make you rich beyond your wildest dreams. Huh? Throughout the recession, various religious leaders have voiced their opinions about what God does and doesn’t do, and how believers should respond to the crisis at hand. To no …
