Warren Cole Smith, Author at MinistryWatch - Page 8 of 114
Up about 8% for 2025, lagging stock market performance
ANALYSIS–The MinistryWatch Index jumped more than 7% in December, and 8% for the year. The sudden jump in December in part reflects a significant release of new financial data related to nonprofits from the IRS. ...
We know how to solve some of our nation’s most intractable problems, but will we?
OPINION—On Tuesday, the Trump administration cut $2 billion to nonprofits, some of them faith-based organizations, that deal with mental health and addiction recovery issues. On Wednesday, the administration restored those grants. It is not yet ...
PLUS: Carey Nieuwhof on Leadership
Warren Smith's weekly column that shares thoughts on news items outside the normal MinistryWatch charity and philanthropy “beat.”
Six of top 10 are coaches; High Point U’s Nido Qubein is top-paid president — again
A list of the 100 highest paid Christian college and university executives.
Regular listeners to MinistryWatch know that one of the things we like to do here is celebrate what I sometimes call the “non-celebrity” Christian leader. We’ve seen so many of the toxic effects of celebrity ...
Still, seeing a Christian leader fall is discouraging. For some it can be devastating. That is why thinking deeply about these stories is important, and ultimately good for us and the church. The producer for ...
The Philip Yancey news should motivate self-reflection in us all.
The idea of finishing well has been on my mind a lot lately. The nature of our work here is that sometimes we cover Christian leaders who do not finish well. We got another tragic ...
Daystar, Hyde Amendment, New Church Data from Ryan Burge
Thoughts on news items that don't rise to the level of a news story or are outside of our normal charity and philanthropy “beat,” including new data from Ryan Burge that Warren Smith "can't resist."
Every year, for the past six years, I have presented a forward-looking, three-year strategic plan to the board of directors of MinistryWatch. That plan has not always been perfect. In fact, it has never been ...
Inspiration Networks again tops the list.
Below is a list of 125 highly paid Christian ministry executives. The information was derived from the latest available Form 990 prepared by the ministry itself. We are not calling this list the “Highest Paid ...
