Tag: giving
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Scientific Advice On How To Spend Your Dollar To Buy The Most Happiness
Business Insider: Scientific Advice On How To Spend Your Dollar To Buy The Most Happiness … When we ask people to list all of their expenses in a given month, and then categorize them, it is always striking how much of their budget goes toward buying what we call—using the scientific term—stuff. Gadgets, music, books,…
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Why Those Who Feel They Have Less Give More
PBS: Why Those Who Feel They Have Less Give More Dacher Keltner: We're starting to paint this really interesting picture of how wealth influences generosity. If you study at the societal level, who gives higher proportions of their income away to charity? Lower class people give more. And what's really interesting is we're finding that…
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Living Simply in Abundance (18)
I ended the last post by noting that God calls us to other-centered community. But there is an important question that is at first not obvious: Which others? The world is filled with more than six billion people. Which ones do I start with? Isn't choosing one over another judgmental? Some ethicists argue that as…
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Living Simply in Abundance (17)
"For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains." 1 Timothy 6:10 (NRSV) This passage is frequently misquoted: "Money is a root of all kinds of evil." The statement is that…
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“The Gift” Robert Sirico
Acton Commentary: The Gift by Robert Sirico What is a gift? It is something provided to another without expecting or demanding anything in return. It is not an exchange, at least not intentionally. It is a pure provision from you to someone else. In that sense, it is always a sacrifice. We might gain from…
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Go Figure
From Christianity Today: Go Figure. A few random stats. 50% Evangelicals who say the government should not fund faith-based organizations. 50% Evangelicals who say the government should distribute wealth more evenly in this country. …