Recently I was blessed in a huge way. Someone mysteriously bought me new tires for my vehicle, another person gave me a really nice gift for my home, and another gave me some metal to finish a shed in ...
Please enable JavaScript to read this content. I never understood the explanations given about tithing so I ended up doing the wrong thing. I didn’t know it was ...
Mitt Romney released his tax forms, and so let's take a step and look at the tithing. A while ago, I wrote the article, “What Romney's Tax Forms Can Teach Us (And Mormons) About Tithing”, and based on ...
(RNS) — When I paid tithing to the church, the logistics of sitting down to do it might take up five minutes of my month. Now, it requires a good deal more time and consideration. (RNS) — In this ...
“And the Lord God commanded the man, ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.’ ” (Genesis 2:16-17). “… In the course of ...
Believers often characterize salvation only as “being saved from sin and for eternity.” But there is more to salvation — it is also about being saved to be God’s servant and His willing testimony ...
On this day of giving, I have been thinking about what has changed in my life in the past year since I published a column explaining why I had stopped paying tithing to The Church of Jesus Christ of ...
There’s a story in the Gospel of Luke about a farmer who unexpectedly found himself with the good fortune of having harvested more grain than he had room to store. What to do? He had an answer, one ...
One of the unfortunate effects of human sin and of the weird and fractured borderline between the sacred and the secular in postmodern culture is that the word "tithe" provokes reactions ranging from ...
I never understood the explanations given about tithing so I ended up doing the wrong thing. I didn’t know it was wrong until I had a talk with my mother in law then I understood it all. Having lost ...