I’ve been creeping toward writing this for a week or so. Then I read John’s blip about Beth Quick’s post on transparency at General Conference. Here’s a bit of Beth’s:
As I think about the approaching General Conference for the UMC, one of the things I wish we would see more of is transparency [...]
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I’m switching search engines. Searchgive.com is a search site that supports various charities by sending some of the advertising money generated to the organization of your choice. Click here to use SearchGive to support the Methodist Children’s Home.
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One of the books I am reading right now is Deep Economy by Bill McKibben. In the first chapter he cites another work in making this claim:
In general, researchers report that money consistently buys happiness right up to about $10,000 per capita income, and that after that point the correlation disappears. (Ed Diener and Martin [...]
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