Letter Re: Questions on Saving, Interest, and Preparation Versus Hoarding,
James: I offer the following discussion (and answers, I hope) for Christians. Proposition/assumptions: Good financial planning and even seeming ‘common sense’ dictates that we plan our income and expenditures wisely so as to have the ability to withstand a crisis. This plan makes sense on an intuitive level, and also can be argued quite easily that as a Christian we have a duty to provide for the life and livelihood of our dependents; and that this provision includes saving money and goods for the event of hard times. Or does it? Our Christian duty is also unquestionably to be …