Hopewit

  Our scriptures don’t give us a lot of helpful guidance on the use of money.                      We’re all over the place on the subjects of having/not having, of buying/selling, of hoarding/giving and that may be part of the reason for our desire to keep our personal finances a secret, even from brothers and sisters in the family, let alone our church community. We have the “love of money is the root of evil,” and “render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s,” plus admonitions to tithe and the sharing of means in at least one early Christian church, but in general we love the security of a portfolio, avoid tax-paying in any way that will remain hidden and (I’m guessing here) the majority of Christians in North America consider economic sharing as diabolical, creeping socialism.                 At the same time, we’re super aware that there are fraudsters and tricksters out there plotting to relieve us of savings we’ve earned and stored, there are profit-driven corporations who a