Ricky Staub and Anders Lindwall were on a steady path to success in the film industry. Ricky was working for a big producer and Anders was freelancing as mercial director. Then, God called both of them to leave their jobs and start pany of their own — one focused on leveraging the process of filmmaking toward whole-life transformation for adults in recovery. Creating a unique business model founded on a concept called “family ratios,” NFCo melds for-profit with non-profit to...

Bruce Edward Walker recently wrote mentary for The Tampa Tribune entitled, Shutting Down Corporate Speech in the Name of Social Justice. He says that: Corporate boardrooms arebeing caught up ina newwave of religious fervor sparkedbyclergy andmembers ofreligious ordersin search ofsocial justice. Alas, this movement is only superficially about the spirit.In truth,corporate directors pany executives are facinga very worldlymissionary effort bypriests, pastors, nuns and laypersonsarmed withproxy shareholder resolutionsthat advance politically liberal dogmas, including attempts to undermine the Supreme Court’sCitizens United ruling....

One of the powerful scenes after Hurricane Katrina was church organizations cutting their way through the roads with chainsaws so they could set up hot meal tents the very next day. Church responders have transformed into “well oiled machines” and are being praised by The Red Cross and federal agencies. Because of Katrina, and tornadoes like the ones that decimated parts of Tuscaloosa, Ala. and Joplin, Mo., churches in munities can offer a level of expertise to the local houses...

My persuasion can build a nation Endless power With our love we can devour You’ll do anything for me -Beyonce, “Run the World (Girls)” That’s the apparent fantasy of Democratic Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky of Illinois. She recently hosted her annual fundraising luncheon, with guest speaker, Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards. Schakowsky said, “humanity is at a crossroads on this small planet and that our survival as a species is dependent on women taking charge, taking the world in our own hands.”...

Tim Burrack, vice chairman and board member of Truth About Trade & Technology, recently wrote mentary for the Washington Times about the agriculture industry in the U.S. and how it is ing more and more European. He says there is fear of a “growing bureaucracy that is smothering freedom and innovation.” Burrack goes on to explain that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has taken an unfortunate step toward Europeanization when it delayed the approval of two crops that will help...

There is no doubt that higher education is costly. Textbooks alone can run $1000 a semester for some undergraduates. Waiting tables and flipping burgers won’t cover those costs. With many parents just as strapped for cash as their children, how does one pay for a college diploma? For some young women, the answer is to sell themselves. There are websites that offer “matching” services for “mutually beneficial relationships”; that is, a young woman signs up for a “sugar daddy”. He...

After a disaster strikes, very few organizations have the vast resources and expertise to feed so many people as Southern Baptist Disaster Relief. They have received praise from countless victims and organizations, including The American Red Cross. After Katrina, they were the first to have hot food tents up and running, feeding tens of thousands three meals a day in munities along the Gulf Coast. Most state Baptist Conventions have their own disaster relief agencies that in many instances have...

President Obama, on Sunday, delivered a touching mencement address at Morehouse College, an all-male historically black college that is also the alma mater of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, that will likely bother many progressives. NPR captured these important sections: We know that too many young men in munity continue to make bad choices. Growing up, I made a few myself. And I have to confess, sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of...

A new study estimates the cost of regulation in the U.S. at $14,768 per household: For two decades, Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute has tracked the growth of new federal regulations. In his 20th anniversary edition this week, he’ll report that pages in the Code of Federal Regulations hit an all-time high of 174,545 in 2012, an increase of more than 21% during the last decade. Relying largely on government data, Mr. Crews estimates that in 2012 the...

In a May 16 address to four new Vatican ambassadors, Pope Francis denounced the “cult of money” in today’s culture, stating that we are now living in a disposable society, where even human beings are cast aside. Phil Lawler, at CatholicCulture.org asks if this means the pope is a socialist. Not so: Socialists make their arguments in moral terms, because if the argument is stated purely in practical terms, the socialists will lose. By the same logic, capitalists prefer to...