This issue of Giving Magazine focuses on Loving Generosity. As you seek to keep the lights on in your church, consider how brightly your light is shining in your community.

This issue of Giving Magazine focuses on Hopeful Generosity. Within these pages you will find inspiration, motivation, and thoughtful reflections about the certainties of hope.

Meredith McNabb explores the ways that generosity is regarded in different religious traditions.

Rev. Bruce Barkhauer offers suggestions on best practices for preaching about generosity in a Christian worship setting.

Rev. Rosanna Anderson reviews Peter Brown's book Through the Eye of the Needle and offers some applications for preaching and ministry in the Christian context.

Tim Schuster identifies three keys to how a generation approaches finances, values, and everything in between.

David P. King, Ph.D. pulls from the Christian scriptures to highlight the gritty hope and generosity required of us today.

Rev. Bruce Barkhauer shares how a Christian pastor might preach on the hope of stewardship.

Rev. Dr. Sidney Williams writes that fishing differently requires a collaborative investment in faith and intellectual, social, and human capital -- not just finding different ways to ask the same people for more money.

An easy-to use, four-week stewardship resource for congregations of any size and worship situation created by the Ecumenical Stewardship Center.