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BRIEF: Sravasti Abbey in need of food

The monastics at Sravasti Abbey follow the Buddha's sangha tradition and only eat the food that is offered to them, and that food is running low. According to the Buddha, this practice establishes a mutual dependence between monastics and the lay community.
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Local Christian radio listeners raise money for wells in Guatemala

| Feb 20, 2013

On Jan. 31, KEEH-FM’s Don Godman hosted a 4-hour on-air fundraiser that raised more $21,000 to dig two new wells in a remote village in Guatemala. With partner, Water for Life, and support from listeners, about 700 people in the village of La Compuerta at the top of a dry hill in Guatemala, will have a clean source of fresh water for their homes, according to a press release
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Help the little drummer boys among us

| Dec 21, 2012

As I was driving home this evening from a massive amount of errands, the song “Little Drummer Boy” by Jars of Clay came on the radio. This is far from my favorite Christmas song, but the words came to a deeper meaning this particular holiday.
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Is it wrong to want to help others? Is it wrong to trust others?

| Dec 11, 2012

At first glance these seem like simple questions, but beneath it is a deeper implication into our actions. We may want others to help us, we may want others to trust us, but we are reluctant to give these things to others.
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COMMENTARY: The $588 million I (thankfully) didn’t win

| Dec 5, 2012

I played the New York lottery for the first time last week. My $2 ticket didn't win the $588 million payout – surprise, surprise – but it did buy me several minutes of musing, most of it instructive, some of it enjoyable.
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‘#GivingTuesday’ event aims to boost charities

| Nov 21, 2012

In the days following Thanksgiving, there's already Black Friday and Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday to kick off the holiday shopping season. Now, a group of charities and corporate sponsors is urging Americans to make the Tuesday after Thanksgiving just as powerful a day of giving to those in need.
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Of cliffs and widows

| Nov 14, 2012

Do you believe in the fiscal cliff? No really. Do you believe in this much-feared, all-consuming, cliff of economic doom? It is stewardship season in many churches. Odd, really, that talk of stewardship is confined to a single season or even a single Sunday.
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Generosity incarnated

| Aug 31, 2012

I just walked out of the Spokane Valley Community of Christ after enjoying a free lunch and was met by my friend Keith, who has been managing the finances of the congregation and the Summer Free Lunch outreach offered by the church during the month of August.
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Religious charity: uniter or divider?

| Aug 17, 2012

The image I most closely associate with the Jewish concept of tzedakah (charity) comes from my childhood. I remember little boxes, emblazoned with the Israeli flag, at my Hebrew school. Each had a small slot for coins on top — a kind of Zionist-looking piggybank.
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Panhandling ordinance demonizes the lower class

| Aug 16, 2012

Panhandlers, beggars, bums, street musicians with their hats out and all other folks looking for handouts have long been part of society and will continue to be as long as money is the dominant factor in our world.
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Donations to religious institutions decline for second straight year

| Jun 20, 2012

Post-recession America is beginning to open its wallet to charities again, but is not giving as generously to religious institutions. While charitable donations from individuals rose nearly 4 percent overall in 2011, according to the annual "Giving USA" report, donations to houses of worship and other religious bodies dropped by 1.7 percent -- a decrease for the second year in a row.
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