Based on numbers through the end of the third quarter of 2009, the Magazine Publishers of America announced that 227 of the 249 magazines they track lost ad revenue this year compared to last year.  Of the only 22 magazines that were doing better than last year, 5 of them are published by Meredith Corporation.  [...]

A LifeWay Research study revealed that 34% of Americans (including a whopping 47% of African Americans and 44% of Americans with graduate school educations and 41% of females) said they would visit a church with an active ministry to the poor. In fact, an active ministry to the poor was more like to draw people [...]