Biblical Israel from the time of Joshua until the destruction of the Second Temple was a predominantly agricultural society. Accordingly, it was through agriculture that the Torah pursued its ...

Ituah Ighodalo, the senior pastor of Trinity House Church, has asserted that leaders of the church are meant to receive the first salary of members. He shared this perspective during an interview with ...

Tithing is one of the most controversial issues in modernChristian society. Some people argue that tithing is a law enshrined in the OldTestament, whereby God requires a tithe of everything including ...

During the first few years of the twenty-first century, Americans have already contended with a remarkable amount of political and economic tumult, ranging from the Sept. 11 attacks to the collapse of ...

Three views on what it means to give faithfully. No, but a nuanced "no." Stewardship theologians have to be as balanced as the economists about whom President Truman famously complained, saying he ...

One of the unfortunate effects of human sin and of the weird and fractured borderline between the sacred and the secular in postmodern culture is that the word "tithe" provokes reactions ranging from ...

The churches of the U.S. last year received about $4 billion in donations. If the 112 million Americans who claim a religious affiliation had given one-tenth—the traditional tithe—of their personal ...