2021 Newsletters
December 2021
Best Investor Content of the Year?
Listen and Decide for Yourself.
Recently, Andy spoke candidly at our Faith Driven Investor Conference on a hot-button topic for investors: God and money. We cannot serve both. How do we balance out Jesus’ teaching and our calling as Faith Driven Investors? Listen to what Andy had to say for some insights and inspiration. This might be the most powerful and profound message we have ever had the privilege to share with you.
November 2021
What Gives with Generosity? David Platt and David Weekley
David Platt, Lead Pastor at McLean Bible Church in Washington, D.C., talks about how the world might look if faith driven investors and entrepreneurs focused on radical generosity.
October 2021
Cathie Wood’s Faith and the Call to Create in Investing
Cathie Wood is the founder and CIO/CEO of ARK Invest. She believes that ARK can identify large-scale investment opportunities in the public markets resulting from technological innovations centered around DNA sequencing, robotics, artificial intelligence, energy storage, and blockchain technology.
September 2021
Tim Keller and Jaylon Smith of the Dallas Cowboys on Faith Driven Investing
Who do you think you are? What or who are you allowing to define you? Neither are small questions. Over the past few weeks, these questions have been the outline for several meaningful conversations.
August 2021
Investing in AI, Environment, & The Bible
Can artificial intelligence make better investing decisions than you?
Tom Kehler, CEO of Crowdsmart, not only believes that it can… but it already is! Tom explains how the future of artificial intelligence is in fact already here.
July 2021
What Does Salesforce Have to Do with Faith Driven Investing?
When we say, ‘bring your whole authentic self to work,’ what if faith is your number one identifier? That’s the question Sue Warnke is asking.
June 2021
How does a $7mil budget lead to an $86mil film?
Our friend Ross Baird expands all of our vocabularies by introducing… Topophilia … The love of or emotional connections with a place or physical environment. In addition to teaching us a new word, Ross joined the podcast to share why he’s passionate about local capital and local communities.
May 2021
Thank God for Bitcoin?
The cryptocurrency conversation isn’t going away any time soon. So, how do Faith Driven Investors participate in all the talk around this form of currency?
That’s exactly what we asked Jimmy Song, author of Thank God for Bitcoin. The answer he shared in his podcast is worth listening to (if not for the sole reason of hearing how he used Bitcoin to pay for what may now be considered the world’s most expensive beef jerky).
April 2021
Exploring the International Impact of Faith Driven Investors
It can be tempting to limit Faith Driven Investing to the Western hemisphere—to think that everything happening in this space is happening because of Americans. But to do so would not only miss the bigger picture, but it would miss some of the greatest stories currently being told.
March 2021
How Does a Faith Driven Investor Say No?
No investor can say yes to every deal that crosses their desk (nor should they!), but learning how to say no is a uniquely acquirable skill.
This month’s content focuses heavily on the relationship between entrepreneurs and investors—what works, what doesn’t, and how both parties can learn from one another.
February 2021
Stewardship Isn’t Just About Money
Stewardship is not a new word. In fact, you can find it on almost any website that has something to do with faith and finances.
But we can’t really understand the Faith Driven Movement until we understand who owns it all and what he has asked us to do with what’s in our hands.
January 2021
What Does the Bible Say About Investing?
2020 was, in a word, unexpected? We’re two weeks into the new year, and I know that so many of us are eager to move forward and look ahead. Our team feels the same, but we also found ourselves pressing pause toward the end of last year and looking back at some of the incredible ways God has moved through the conversation we’re grateful to be a part of.