Do you know how much your pastor makes?  Does it matter?  Is there a limit on how much a pastor should make?  A pastor in New York is making $500-600k/year.  This salary has prompted a lawsuit over his “compensation“.  So how’d he make so much?
Base $250k
Housing Allowance (rent) $11.5k = $138k/year
Private school for Child
Maid
Home Equity [...]

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FreeMoneyFinance talks about the Price of Religion, specifically linking back to Money’s article about 3 families of different religious backgrounds and their struggles with personal finances.
He focuses on the Christian family to start and says that they have struggled against the notion that to be faithful stewards they needed to avoid building wealth.  Basically they [...]

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I am writing this week about issues twenty-something people face financially, because I’m hosting tomorrow the Twenty-Something Carnival of Finances.  It’s Sunday and I’m sure many people go to Church. I don’t, but I can understand how it’s important to go and participate.
Anyway, when people are starting out, they might be burdened with student loan [...]

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