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Editor’s Note: The following article is an excerpt from Faith-Based Fraud: Learning From The Great Religious Scandals of our Time. The book is now available at Amazon and other on-line booksellers.
MinistryWatch has added salary information for 2,865 senior leaders to the profiles of its database. These salaries come from the Form 990s of 558 ministries.
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MinistryWatch has enhanced its Financial Efficiency Rating so that ministries will be rated in comparison to those in its peer group, and not in comparison to every ministry in the database. The formulas at the ...
New book chronicles some of the most fascinating religious frauds of our time – and what we can do to prevent them
MinistryWatch this week released a new book, Faith-Based Fraud: Learning from the Great Religious Scandals of Our Time. The book is by MinistryWatch President Warren Cole Smith.
Many Christians have a distaste for hard-hitting journalism, especially when it concerns our own. This distaste sometimes gets wrapped in biblical language. But both a valid interpretation (hermeneutic) and the proper application of Scripture are ...
25 years ago, in May of 1995, The Wall Street Journal published a series of stories that led to the downfall of the Foundation for New Era Philanthropy. New Era was a financial scandal that ...
America is Strong Because of Armies of Compassion
It’s a fair question, but consider this: Annual fundraising events like this one are not happening this year because of the COVID-19 crisis. This reality is putting a serious strain on local pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) around the country.
On April 3, Crown Financial Ministries CEO Chuck Bentley released an “Open Letter to Churches and Christian Ministries.” He called on Christian leaders to exercise extreme caution before taking money earmarked for non-profits as part of the ...
