Nuggets
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
Personal Finance
Congregational Finances
My friend talked for almost 90 minutes. A few times I asked a clarifying question, but mostly I just listened. I met him fifteen years ago, and never before had I heard him speak with […]
Credit Ratings and Marital Success
When a pastor visits a parishioner in the hospital, details about bodily functions often become part of the conversation. I will never forget the visit with a man who showed me diagrams and tubes as […]
When Retirement Planning Hits Government Road Bumps
I purchased the book a few months back, but have not read it yet. Recent action by the United States Congress and the signature of the president have made the book’s contents obsolete. Now what […]
Shielded from Financial Fraud
I stopped to see Frances (name changed) once or twice a week in the months after her husband died. She had two adult children, but they lived hundreds of miles away. She had friends who […]
Talking about Death
I scrambled to respond to the outburst. I confess the intensity caught me by surprise. Cancer had taken its toll. So on a Sunday evening we gathered at her house. Even though she was younger […]
The High Cost of Advice
A teenage driver ran a red light and smashed into the small pickup my father drove. Dad ended up lying on the asphalt with the truck on its side just beyond his feet. The emergency […]
Insightful Questions
The winter of 2015 may be remembered by our daughter’s family for the illness that settled over the house for most of a month. The five members of the household took turns at being sick. […]