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.
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Accounting. Data Analytics. Bible Stories.

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

This Week's Reflection

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
"To whom much is given,
much will be required."
Luke 12:48
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?
  • A 5-minute self-audit — what skills, accounts, and people have you been handed?
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Rarely Mentioned · Judges 4:17–22 Tent peg.
Issue 1Willing

The Woman Who Killed a General With a Tent Peg

One of the greatest military victories in biblical history — won not by a soldier, a king, or a prophet. Jael wasn't on anybody's radar. She acted with the tools she had, right where she was. And history changed.

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Rarely Mentioned · Jonah 1–4 Ran the other way.
Issue 2Grace

The Man Swallowed by Something Worse Than a Whale

Everybody knows Jonah and the whale. But the real story is what happened after — a heart full of hatred disguised as religion, furious that God showed mercy to people Jonah had already written off.

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Rarely Mentioned · Daniel 4:1–37 Ate grass.
Issue 3Pride

The King Who Went Insane and Ate Grass

The most powerful man on earth — crawling in a field, eating grass like an animal, for seven years. The moment he looked up and acknowledged something greater than himself, everything was restored.

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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 Proverbs 27:23-24 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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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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