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Report cites ways for IRS to curb lavish ministries

Dec 20, 2012 by Adelle M. Banks

A special commission created by the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability has called for clearer Internal Revenue Service guidance and greater efforts by donors to address “outliers” among congregations and other nonprofits that are not being held financially accountable.

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Money movers

What governments do

May 01, 2012 by Benjamin J. Dueholm

Redistributing wealth is what all public budgets do. The question is whether a given type of redistribution promotes justice and decency.

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Unjustly taxed

The Bible and politics in Alabama
Sep 21, 2004
When has a master’s thesis in theology ever spurred a governor to try to amend his state’s constitution? Perhaps only in the case of Susan Pace Hamill, whose concern for justice and knowledge of tax law led her to write The Least of These: Fair Taxes and the Moral Duty of Christians, a biblical critique of Alabama’s tax code.
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Crumbling pillars

Anarchy at home and abroad
Jul 12, 2003 by William F. May
The attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, constituted an attack not simply on America but on the modern world order. One of the proud towers of the modern world is confidence in reason—not in the human power for reason (the ancient world celebrated that power) but rather the powers acquired through reason. Modern science yields technologies that benefit humankind.