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September 2008
Alan Greenspan acknowledged in his recent book, The Age of Turbulence, "There are errors in this book....
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August 2008
Bob got home from work at his usual hour of 5 p.m., only to discover that it had not been one of his...
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July 2008
Dear Mom, Scoutmaster Webb told us to write our parents in case you heard about the flood and got worried....
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July 2008
Recently some of Anne Rice's fans were shocked that she had returned to the Catholic faith of her childhood.
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July 2008
News reports have introduced us to a church choir director named Rocky, who wants to bring down gas prices...
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July 2008
Ludlow Porch is a bit of a Southern legend.
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July 2008
Did you see the television reports of the extraordinary act of sportsmanship at the college women’s softball...
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Giving
Giving
Our word "pittance" has come to mean a very tiny gift, but that was not its
original meaning. In the Middle Ages the term referred to a very substantial
sum, given "out of piety and pity." Often the interest from the fund
was used to provide a splendid dinner for the monks in the monastery. But as
time went on and inflation took its toll, there was only enough money for a
small snack. The large gift had over the years become a pittance. It is not
only inflation that measures the size of our gifts. They are also to be
measured by the resources from which we give, and by what we have left after we
give. So the widow's mite in the gospels was what we would call a pittance, but
Jesus reckoned that it was a substantial and splendid gift.
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