Whenever we start up another edition of Financial Peace University, my mind turns to the subject of stewardship—something we hear a lot about in Christian circles.  Stewardship and the accompanying edict to be “good stewards” are two of the foundational phrases of “church-speak.” Unfortunately, by the time a word or phrase joins this exclusive “church-...

Did you ever lament the demise of a dream? The death of a vision?

Did it depart in an explosive exit, followed by a funeral and observation? Or did it quietly expire from neglect, slipping away unnoticed? Have you forgotten that it ever lived?  Did you relegate it to that imagined abyss from which lost dreams can never return?

We enjoy a moment in America where w...