Tag: saving
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A Lot More Than a Penny Earned
Wall Street Journal: A Lot More Than a Penny Earned Do Americans save enough? That depends on what the meaning of the word "enough" is. Enough for our own good? Enough for that of our neighbors? Our grandchildren? Our neighbors' grandchildren and our grandchildren's neighbors? Ronald T. Wilcox, a business professor at the University of…
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Conservative Theology Means Smaller Bank Accounts
Christianity Today: Conservative Theology Means Smaller Bank Accounts Duke sociologist says conservative Protestants save less and accumulate fewer assets. Lisa Keister has scanned the Bible and found nearly 2,000 verses in the New Testament that touch on the topic of money. It's those very verses that may be keeping many conservative Protestants from building up…
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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…