life on planet earth on Charity

The celebrated CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes presented a segment on August 14, 2022, titled “Hope Chicago.” The segment tells a remarkable story about what happened to students at a high school on...

Yes, we mark our heads with ashes—public shows of piety are not in themselves evil. But we must guard our motivations and do most of our spiritual work in private, because the privacy of those acts re...

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

There is no such merchant as the charitable man; he gives trifles which he could not keep, to receive treasure which he cannot lose.

In Essentials Unity; In Non-Essentials Liberty; In All Things Charity

If our goods are not available to the community, they are stolen goods.

In 1947 huge crowds came to hear a thirty-two-year-old Californian preach at mass evangelistic rallies throughout China. Although Bob Pierce had no knowledge of Chinese language or culture, his messag...

In this short excerpt, pastor and author Austin Fischer describes a surprising dynamic that sometimes occurs in the life of a Christian: believing so strongly in a loving God that one cannot fathom th...

When 67-year-old carpenter Russell Herman died in 1994, his will included a staggering set of bequests. Included in his plan for distribution was more than two billion dollars for the City of East St....

Saint Aidan was an Irish monk who later became bishop of Northumbria (Northern England and Parts of Scotland) in 635. He also founded the famous monastery at Lindisfarne. There is a story told of his ...

I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back...but God has a bigger shovel!