Collecting My Thoughts

The Schumer Shutdown may have been paused but the Obamacare funding problem won't go away, and neither will hunger if political interest...

It looks like the Schumer Shutdown is over for now. The disastrous Obamacare increases will still need to be solved, and the payment for il...

Opinion : Giving Tuesday (following Thanksgiving, black Friday, small business Saturday and cyber Monday) might have been a good idea when i...

This is an old photo taken at UALC on Thanksgiving Day--maybe 10 years ago. I don't know what's happening at your church or how othe...

Six years ago I wrote this thought about giving, alms, charity, and mercy and the long term benefits. "I read the Columbus Catholic Tim...

Oh yes, the tax returns are coming out.  We have a taxpayers Bill of Rights and #7 says you can’t be forced to share your information. But t...

Isn’t that just about the dumbest slogan?  I’ve heard it or seen it many times in many phrases, and it isn’t true, of course.  Get three peo...

 Why do I have 5 envelopes for some organizations and none for others? National Trust for Historic Preservation Coming Home Network Intern...

Our tithe goes to our local congregation, Upper Arlington Lutheran Church, but there are other groups we like to support through the year an...

 What could be worse than the IRS being in charge of your medical records?  How about crushing with a burden of paper work every organizatio...

I read the Columbus Catholic Times , a hand off from a family friend. I'm learning a lot. Just this week I noticed a difference in how C...

Obama wants just a smidgen more from the rich to support his failing pre-school idea (for over 50 years and trillions of dollars Head Start ...

“Do They Even Know It’s Christmas?” is voted as the worst Christmas song ever by this writer at a Catholic site. It's from Band Aid 1984...

Jesus preaches and teaches more on money than any other topic. Liberal Christians will remind you, if you forget. However, he never asks bel...

Last year Wal-Mart donated $3 million to New York City charities, including $1 million to the New York Women’s Foundation, which offers job ...

Nicholas Kristof wrote about one child and one mother for a story, and got 3 comments which he calls an "outrage" and "compas...

"Taxpayers earning at least $200,000 represented 2.8 percent of all people filing tax returns in 2009, according to Internal Revenue Se...

Saint Elizabeth Anne Seton was an Anglican with a large family who converted to Roman Catholicism after her husband's death. She founded...

President Obama's always been wealthier than we are, even in childhood, and unlike us probably didn't begin in the bottom quintile a...

A better deal than Americorps! That only pays a stipend and qualifies you to be a "public servant" to repay your college debt . ...