Finances Archives

Desperate homeowners like Lynn Thompson - whose property is worth $90,000 less than she purchased it for - have raised an ethical debate: Is it...

While bankruptcy's stigma has weakened in recent years, it is still an especially troubling topic for many Christians. What about the biblical...

As the economic viability of the European Union teeters on the brink of collapse, Americans are getting a close up look at what happens when...

In the 1987 movie Wall Street, Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas, offered a speech in which he expressed the greed of the eighties. He...

As I've been reading Emerson Eggerichs' book, naturally titled Love and Respect, it made me wonder about the implications for how husbands and...

God’s way of giving requires guts. It’s tough to give the way God calls us to. It can be frightening. It can even be lonely. Sometimes it means we...

Should we write to the companies and cancel old, unused credit cards?

What's so great about the "free" market and why is it worth preserving? And if regulation isn't the answer to Wall Street's excesses, what is?

If the SEC's allegations are true, then at the very least we are witnessing a real breakdown in ethics—people, ordinary men and women, failing to...

In order to live in financial freedom it's essential to avoid financing vehicles. Think it's impossible to cut out your car payment? It doesn't...

It's not just an old saying: When it comes to couples and money, opposites do attract.

Caesar has no power except that given to him by God. The fact that Caesar doesn’t know that doesn’t change things.

Some say that no one should have a credit card. But used responsibly, credit cards can work in your favor.

As a nation and as individuals, we’ve gotten to the point where we can hardly conceive of living life without access to an endless line of credit....

You'd like to make extra principal payments on your home mortgage each month, but you can't do that and invest for retirement. Which should have...