Archives for Religion & Money
Should Gays Spend Money at Chick-Fil-A?
Chick-Fil-A is in the news again and many are divided with the Facebook and Twitter comments over whether we should spend our hard earned money and support a brand that…
Buying Visibility, One Quarter At A Time
I am sitting in the laundromat down the street, waiting for my triple-washer to finish its spin cycle. The owner has asked me to hang out and talk with him…
Pay God first? Pay yourself? Or get out of debt?
'œDebt is the slavery of the free.' '“ Publilius Syrus We've all heard David Bach's mantra, 'œPay yourself first' and why it's the reliable path to achieving wealth. But not…
Sacred Writings on Money Blogs
"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart." -- Jonathan Swift On Sunday, the Personal Finance blogosphere went into a tizzy over a guest…
God Made Me Buy It: The Virtue of Consumption
"We are just statistics, born to consume resources." -- Horace Here's one for the consumer file as we all head off to work on Monday morning in our effort to…
God Can Help You Eliminate Credit Card Debt
"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to." -- Dorothy Parker Yesterday, I made my thrice-yearly pilgrimage to the…
Atheism and the Eternity of Money
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." -- Frank Lloyd Wright At church on Sunday, an atheist stood up and talked about what our community (not the LGBT…
Gay Spirituality & Intimacy: Priceless
The fact is, many spiritual traditions aren't welcoming of the LGBTQ community. So it is refreshing, and worth talking about, when they are. Even better when they are specifically about…
The Cost of Finding God
"God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us." -- Peter Antenberg Although Jeanine and I are still not pregnant, we continue to have the…
Gays and Halloween
"Where there is no imagination there is no horror." -- Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. Gays typically love Halloween. Tonight, the largest adult outdoor Halloween event in the world takes place…