Weekly · Bible Stories Meet Data

Faithful with numbers.
Faithful with truth.

A weekly letter for analysts, accountants, and finance folks who want their craft to mean something. Every Sunday I pair an old story with a fresh dataset — and we figure out what stewardship actually looks like on a Monday.

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Shanikwa Haynes, founder of Analytics by Shanikwa
Luke 16:10
Faithful in little,
faithful in much.
Three paths. One purpose.

Accounting. Data Analytics. Bible Stories.

Three disciplines, one stewardship. Explore each track — or start where you are.

This Week's Reflection · Issue № 2

A story, a dataset, and a question worth bringing to your job.

Each issue holds a Bible story up next to real numbers — sometimes mine, sometimes yours — and asks the question your spreadsheet won't.

Reflection № 3
"To whom much is given,
much will be required."
Luke 12:48
Posted Sunday, November 8 · 7 min read

The parable of the talents, audited.

The servant who buried his talent didn't lose money. He just refused to put it to work. That's also a perfectly acceptable financial control — and a perfectly terrible career move. This week we audit what we've been entrusted with, and what it costs to bury it.

  • The difference between preservation and stewardship — and why your boss is paying for the second.
  • A 5-minute self-audit: what skills, accounts, and people have you been handed?
  • Free template: Talents Ledger.xlsx — a journal for the work you haven't done yet.
What you get every Sunday

A small, honest community for people who count things for a living.

No hustle theology. No prosperity pitches. Just careful work, careful reading, and a few hundred friends asking the same questions you are.

The Sunday letter

One Bible story, one dataset, one practical question for the work week ahead. Always under 1,000 words.

Open table Q&A

A monthly live call where members bring real spreadsheets, real anxieties, and real career questions. Recorded.

Resource library

Templates, dashboards, prayer prompts, and reading lists — all the work I'd want next to me on my first day at a job.

Prayer + practice

A short prayer for the week ahead and a single, specific practice to try at work. No mysticism, no productivity hacks.

From the library

Recent issues worth your inbox.

A look at what's been in the letter lately. Read free; the templates and full archive open up when you join.

Reflection · Genesis 41 Seven years.
Issue 1Forecasting

Joseph kept a 14-year forecast. Your boss won't.

What Pharaoh's dream actually teaches about scenario planning — and why most quarterly forecasts are spiritual, not statistical.

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Reflection · Matthew 25 Talents.
Issue 2Career

The third servant had the cleanest books.

How "playing it safe" with your career, your skills, and your accounts looks identical to obedience — and isn't.

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Template · Proverbs 27:23 Know the flock.
Issue 3Tooling

A weekly check-in for the numbers you actually own.

A free spreadsheet that asks five questions about the work you're responsible for. Use it Friday afternoon, before you forget.

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Readers, in their own words.

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I'm a senior accountant who hasn't been to church in eleven years. I still read this every Sunday. It's the only career writing I trust because it actually expects something of me.
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Danielle M.
Senior Accountant · Atlanta
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I forwarded the Genesis 41 issue to my team's forecasting lead. He printed it. We rebuilt our quarterly model around it. I don't know that he believes in any of it, but the numbers got better.
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Reuben P.
FP&A Manager · Nashville
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Nikki writes like someone who's actually had to defend a number to a CFO. The faith piece doesn't feel bolted on — it feels like the floor it's all standing on.
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Adaeze B.
Data Analyst · Charlotte

Numbers tie. Sources cite.
Promises ship.

The Three Disciplines of This Letter
№ 01

Numbers tie

Every figure I share reconciles to a source. If a row doesn't tie, it doesn't ship — in the letter or in your model.

№ 02

Sources cite

Scripture references in full. Datasets linked. Claims sourced. Stewardship is showing your work.

№ 03

Promises ship

The letter goes out every Sunday. The templates open every month. What we say will arrive, arrives.

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