How great thou Art
I first wrote about Art Duerksen, a long-time member of The United Church on my other blog, www.CreatingtheGreaterGood.com way back on September 14, 2011 and my admiration for him has only increased since then. As I wrote in the book, LOONIE is dedicated to Art Duerksen. Art’s a missionary. Before that he was selling jewelry […]
What if money didn’t matter?
Ankith S Kumar has produced a really cool 3 minute video that’s received more than 157,000 likes and over 400,000 shares. Watch it and tell me what you think! Post by Ankith S Kumar.
Armando’s Envelopes
“Fail to plan, plan to fail,” the old adage goes. Most of us don’t plan—don’t begin to budget—so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that there’s often not enough month left at the end of the money. My wife and I have found it a real blessing to be guided in our financial affairs by […]
Sometimes you can never have too much
I eat too much / I drink too much / I want too much / Too much… I love the Dave Matthews Band and their video for their hit song “Too Much” (1996) remains delicious all these years later. Watch it (and dance like Dave if the kids aren’t watching)
How much will it take to make you happy? Research proves $75,000 oughta do it
Cool findings from PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America). And thanks to Meredith Thompson for telling me about this. Recent research has begun to distinguish two aspects of subjective well-being. Emotional well-being refers to the emotional quality of an individual’s everyday experience—the frequency and intensity of experiences […]
Closing time?
Have you noticed how many mainline churches have closed their doors due to declining numbers? Older members are dying and the churches are dying right along with them. But such a fate isn’t unique to churches, no. Social service groups like Kiwanis, Lions, Shriners, Soroptimists, Rotary and others like them are really struggling, too. For […]
Occupy this notion
I’m not one to play dumb. Yeah, I know that the Occupy Movement was targeting the richest of the rich; the top 1% of income earners compared to the other so called 99 percent. Sure, I think CEO salaries are outrageous (“Top Canadian CEOs earn annual worker’s salary by lunchtime on Jan. 2” was the […]
From Chapter Eight, Who Are You?:
If you Google “Gender income gap Canada” you will find the latest stats from The Conference Board of Canada. Or click here: www.conferenceboard.ca/hcp/details/society/gender-income-gap.aspx
From Chapter Eight, Who Are You?:
Who tithes and who doesn’t? Read all about it: https://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/18-congregations/41-new-study-shows-trends-in-tithing-and-donating#.UmuzqJSY6GM
From Chapter Thirteen, The Giving Tree:
Here’s a great idea for Christmas. Order your copy of Shel Silverstein’s classic children’s book, The Giving Tree: http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/home/search/?keywords=the%20giving%20tree