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When was the last time you heard the word 'tithe?' Odds are, it doesn't come up in your daily conversations all that often. Just because the word may not be used daily doesn't mean tithing holds ...

I grew up believing generosity had a clear address. You went to church. You gave your tithe. You trusted the system. It was clean and comforting and required little imagination. I didn’t have to ...

The Israelites were never subject to withholding upward of 15 percent. My husband and I were newly Christian and in seminary when a friend told us about tithing. She stressed the importance of giving ...

But for many Christians, it may be a moot point. It’s not that giving to your local church isn’t important—it is, leaders told the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE). But 76 percent say it’s ...

Jean and Jim Darrell are a Los Angeles couple of modest means who live frugally by necessity. He works part time for an internist, doing office work, and she augments the family income by house ...

The desire to tithe is the same as the desire to go to church every Sunday, pray when someone needs it and give thanks to God when you’re grateful. For many Christians, tithing is less of an ...

I believe that you should give people whatever you want to give them personally. Go and help the poor and motherless babies’ home personally; why do you have to give it to your pastor? Don’t you think ...

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 ...

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax… [it] is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher.” — Albert Einstein April 15 may seem a long way off, but it will be ...