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Nothing you do with your money can validate your existence, and that is because your existence does not need validating. What you do with your money matters, in many important ways, but you must remember as you walk those ways that you are made in the image of God. This goes well beyond validation!! You
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I heard Thierry Henry say on a podcast that “as an athlete, you die when you stop playing…and no one teaches you how to die.” When your entire life is wrapped up in a thing and that thing goes away, then necessarily some meaningful part of your life will follow it. Henry had to learn
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As a charity gets to a certain scale, you will inevitably find some person or persons there whose work consists entirely of “donor relations” or some such moniker. And these people will reach out to the donors who write the biggest checks (in absolute dollar terms) and generally wine and dine them. Not always literally
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It is not clear to me what an economically well-ordered life looks like for a Christian in the West. I suspect that obedience to Jesus in our pecuniary affairs looks significantly more radical than what we have grown accustomed to, but as far as I can tell there is no neat prescription for how to
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Sometimes the height of wisdom is simply knowing when to stop doing too much of a good thing. To know that it is possible to over-optimize, and to resist the temptation to do so. You will not find this wisdom in a spreadsheet, or a chart, or an account balance. The combined powers of CNBC,
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I heard Marc Rowan say on a podcast recently that “in the absence of policy, many things seem arbitrary.” He was speaking in the context of decision making as a fiduciary board member of a university, but I think the content of his statement is true in general. When it comes to your money, the
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Whether you call it fortune or luck or randomness or whatever, an important skill is to recognize that you have no control over many important outcomes in your life. From NCAA brackets to investment returns to career success to your own health, the world is simply too complex and chaotic to chalk any outcome–good or
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I’m sorry, but you cannot treat all your life’s priorities as equals through time. You will have to set down certain priorities for a bit in order to pick up others. This is normal and healthy. In fact, this is more normal and healthy than attempting to infinitely juggle the impossible. You can’t be in
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In his wonderful primer on Girardian thought, Luke Burgis draws a lovely and useful distinction between “thin” desires–transient and often unhealthfully mimicking–and “thick” desires–those which endure and are ultimately good. There are many ways to go about cultivating thick desires, but it strikes me that time is one of our most powerful weapons in this
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