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According to Buster Soaries, we didn’t arrive at such a financial crisis overnight. We arrived at this point through a culturally conditioned process of enslavement, tightening our own shackles each day with emotional purchases, overwhelming indebtedness, and desperate short-sightedness.

Dr. Buster Soaries believes “debt is a bigger problem than racism,” and that “debt is slavery.” The idea that we would be voluntary slaves is offensive to all of our sensibilities. But when we continue to spend what we don’t have, charge what we don’t need, and borrow more than we can repay, then we must call the problem what it is: slavery.

Critics of prosperity gospel say it can have a sinister undertone of greed and materialism. The Rev. DeForest Buster Soaries, Jr. is such a critic of prosperity gospel. Host Michel Martin speaks with Soaries, who pastors the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, NJ, about ways prosperity gospel can be helpful and harmful to spiritual life.

If you think being a corporate emcee is no different from a regular performance (or that any “funny guy” at work can do it), think again. Being an effective emcee requires a distinct skill set.

USA Today ran a piece on youth ministry ominously titled, ‘Forget Pizza Parties,’ Teens Tell Churches. “Bye-bye church. We’re busy.” So pizza parties aren’t the answer, but youth ministry can still change lives.

dfree™ is a strategy to help individuals, families and organizations get out of debt, overcome the culture of debt and attain financial independence.