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Non-Christian Narnia: The C.s. Lewis Estate And ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

Non-Christian Narnia: The C.S. Lewis estate and its publishers have started shaping a marketing makeover of Aslan and assorted Narnian habitués to expand readership and extend the brand. Most striking of all, they have developed a discreet strategy to avoid direct links to the Christian imagery ...read more

Tags: Narnia

Morality In Decline: In ‘69, Gallup Found That ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

Morality In Decline: In ‘69, Gallup found that premarital sex was frowned upon by two-thirds of Americans. Today, only 38% believe it is wrong for a man and a woman to have sexual relations before marriage. 52% also believes that "living together" is morally acceptable. Expectations relating to ...read more

Tags: Marriage General

Occupation Spam Is One Of The Fastest Rising ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

Occupation Spam is one of the fastest rising employee productivity challenges today. The term describes the unsolicited e-mail cluttering in-boxes, taxing servers, and occupying an average of 49 minutes of each employee’s workday. A recent Gartner survey finds 34% of the ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Crime Doesn't Pay: For The 7th Consecutive Year, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

Crime Doesn’t Pay: For the 7th consecutive year, the number of dishonest employees apprehended — and the dollars recovered from those apprehensions — increased over the previous year, according to the 13th annual Retail Theft Survey. The 30 U.S. retail companies responding to the survey lost more ...read more

Tags: Sin General

E-Mail Marketing Tips: Local E-Mail Marketing ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

E-mail Marketing Tips: Local E-Mail Marketing indicates 42% of small businesses will use e-mail for some form of marketing by ‘05, with promotional coupons being the most popular method. Because the economics of e-mail -- no paper, printing, postage, or design costs -- make it one of the few ...read more

Tags: Church General

Abc Cuts Religion: Disney-Owned Abc News Is ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

ABC Cuts Religion: Disney-owned ABC News is releasing its long-time religion correspondent, Peggy Wehmeyer, and doing away with her beat in October. The award-winning For 7 years she has been covering religious issues for the network and her departure means that none of the ...read more

Tags: World Religions

Understanding Church: Todd Hunter Has Been A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

Understanding Church: Todd Hunter has been a church leader and student of cultural movements for over 30 years. He says, “When I’m dealing with young people today, they are living in a different reality and their reality is more based in community. Now I know you hear this all the time and you read ...read more

Tags: What Is Evangelism?

Take A Break: The World Health Organization ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

Take A Break: The World health Organization reports that by ’20 clinical depression is expected to outrank cancer and follow only heart disease in causes of death and disability worldwide. 28% of U.S. adults feel overworked or overwhelmed by work often or very often. These feelings take a toll on ...read more

Tags: Emotions

Irs Threat: The Irs, Faced With A Small But ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

IRS Threat: The IRS, faced with a small but rapidly growing tax rebellion among small business owners, has put them on notice that if they refuse to withhold taxes from workers’ paychecks they might be prosecuted. The formal I.R.S. notice to tax lawyers and other professionals says the claim that ...read more

Tags: World Religions

Church Giving Declines: Barna Research Found That ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

Church Giving Declines: Barna Research found that 78% of adults donated money to a non-profit organization or church in ‘00. That’s a 6% decline from ‘99, and a 9% drop from ‘98, when 87% of all adults had donated funds. The average giving per person fell by 15% in ‘00 to $886, versus $1377 in ’98. ...read more

Tags: Giving General

Take That Vacation: The Families And Work ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

Take That Vacation: The Families and Work Institute released recent study revealing more than 25% of workers report they’ve passed up some of the vacation time to which they’re entitled because of job demands. The study found that those who don’t use their vacation time are far more likely to ...read more

Male Harassment Growing: More And More Men Are ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

Male Harassment Growing: More and more men are coming forward to file sexual harassment charges about behavior that employers once dismissed as simply horseplay or locker-room antics, according to employment lawyers and government regulators. While some of these men are complaining of unwanted ...read more

Tags: Men And Women

About 5% Of American Workers -- Or 6.8 Million ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

About 5% of American workers -- or 6.8 million people -- were classified as "working poor" in 1999, according to the Labor Dept. ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Last Year, The Barna Survey Estimates That About ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

Last year, the Barna survey estimates that about 6 out of every 10 dollars given to any non-profit entity went to churches. ...read more

Tags: Giving General

80% Of U.s. Companies Keep Tabs On Their ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

80% of U.S. companies keep tabs on their employees by checking their e-mail, Internet, or phone connections vs. 35% 4 years ago. ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Women Rule The Web Women Are The Dominating ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

Women Rule the Web Women are the dominating presence on the web. U.S. women over the age of 18 comprise 40.9% of all online users, up from 40.3% in May ‘00. Men 18 and older now compose 39.8% of all online users, ...read more

Tags: Women

Insider Fraud Executives Don't Realize That Most ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

Insider Fraud Executives don’t realize that most computer fraud is committed by employees trying to extract inside information from the corporate systems, not by outside hackers, ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Spy Badges Technology

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

Spy Badges Technology now offers employee ID badges that are read by computer-based mapping programs that track employees within a building or business campus every second. Hospitals use them to quickly locate doctors, but they can also reveal who spends too ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Contraceptives For Women Must Now Be Covered By ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

Contraceptives for women must now be covered by group health plans of business that employ 15 or more people, according to 6/12 Federal District Court ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Magazine Newsstand Return Rates Have Gone From ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

Magazine newsstand return rates have gone from 35% in ‘73 to 52% in ‘88 to 65% last year. (Foster ...read more

Tags: Workplace