To Tom Norwood, the Old Testament concept of tithing 10 percent of earnings once had a straightforwardness to it that now seems quaint. When he was a child, Norwood received an allowance of 10 dimes a ...

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When was the last time you heard the word 'tithe?' Odds are, it doesn't come up in your daily conversations all that often. Just because the word may not be used daily doesn't mean tithing holds ...

Tithing is generally understood as setting aside 10% of one’s income to be given to one’s local church as an act of worship ...

Rev. Roger Timm knows what it means to give until it hurts. A year ago, Timm promised his congregation at St. James Lutheran Church in Naperville that if pledges to the church increased by 15 percent, ...

Tithing, when congregants give ten percent of their income to a local church, is an expected practice in many communities of faith. But with declining trust in the way churches spend money due to ...