How should Christians handle their money? John Wesley famously said, “Earn all you can, save all you can, give all you can.” What are some basics from scripture?

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We begin 2025 with the shocking reports of a teen allegedly murdered by his “best friend”. The reality that gangs are ...

A fast-rising teaching in the church, prevalent mainly in the Charismatic movement, is the one of first-fruit offering and as with any issue involving giving money in the name of religion, it is ...

(Council of Trent, 13th Session) Before going into the Gospels, let us consider a few Old Testament prefigurements ... Afterward Abram gave him a tithe (Gn 14:20). In Hebrews 5:10, St. Paul ...

I have known a church that taught tithing was 'owed' to God ... without expectations or obligations. The New Testament gives us a wonderful picture of generosity and extravagant giving, without ...

In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...

The Talmud purports to be the written version of the oral Torah that Pharisaic and later Orthodox Judaism believed was ...