• Greed,  Leland Ryken,  Money,  Poverty,  Puritans

    Money Money Money

    Money, as traditionally understood, is a unit of payment for goods and services recognized and established by a government within a country. It is a medium of exchange, cutting out the need for exchange of physical goods; it is a standard by which any good or service is measured in terms of value, a method for the preservation of value through for example, savings, and a means of settling a debt. If that’s what money is, then how do we, as Christians, make sense of it? The following is almost entirely drawn from Leland Ryken’s book, Worldly Saints:  For a start, is money good or bad or morally neutral? Historically, the Roman Catholic Church…