Financial Literacy Program 2015
The Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement hosted a Financial Literacy Institute. The program, put on in partnership with Wells Fargo Bank, includes four consecutive weekly sessions and two months of mentoring …
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Let the Church Say ‘Thank You!’ – Church Finance Series
This post originally appeared in The Los Angeles Sentinel. Every Sunday morning, the church offers prayer, scriptures, songs, a sermon and the almighty offering, but does the church say, “Thank you?” Giving …
Ask and It Shall Be Given! Church Finance Series
A version of this article appeared in the Los Angeles Sentinel. Our church needed money to build a new sanctuary. We had raised some money, but it was not enough. Our small …
How To Create a Church Budget – Church Finance Series
A version of this article appeared in the Los Angeles Sentinel. The church budgeting process can be difficult or delightful. Either way it’s necessary. As I wrote in part one, churches have …
Show Members the Money! Church Finance Series
A version of this article appeared in the Los Angeles Sentinel. Churches are required to be transparent and fiscally accountable and to work together to manage God’s money. But too many churches …
From #GivingTuesday to Giving USA, New Lessons for Faith-Based Organizations
Huffington Post Religion covered the Faith+GivingTuesday+SocialGood summit, which featured CRCC’s Rev. Mark Whitlock, Brie Loskota and Nadia Roumani. The summit convened representatives from religious organizations, universities and entrepreneurs who are exploring the …
Religious Competition and Creative Innovation project
The Religious Competition and Creative Innovation project (RCCI) explores the proposition that competition between religious groups stimulates creative innovation, contributing to religious change and development. RCCI will be developed and primarily focused on Southern California, while developing a comparison with Seoul, South Korea
Religion and Authoritarianism Cooperation, Conflict, and the Consequences
Religion and Authoritarianism Cooperation, Conflict, and the Consequences Karrie J. Koesel (Cambridge University Press: 2014) The writing of this book was supported by the Pentecostal Charismatic Research Initiative. …
Boko Haram, West African terrorism and the push for amnesty
This article was originally published in The Global Post An excerpt from the article: “The current push to find a negotiated solution to interreligious violence originated with the Sultan of Sokoto, the …
Passing the Mantle: Faith-based Leadership in a Time of Change
In one of the most electrifying moments in “Eyes on the Prize,” the documentary about the civil rights movement that aired on PBS in 1987, an African-American teenager named Jimmy Webb tries …