Jeff and I are traveling in Ecuador, and this weekend we visited the small town of Mindo. Saturday evening I watched these kids playing wit...

(In which my dislike of blog posts consisting of pointed quotations is overcome by my love of Douglas Adams.) "I think," said Fo...

Several times I've heard Matthew 6:2-4 used as an explanation for why talking about giving is bad: Thus, when you give to the needy, s...

For a school project, I'm helping a local mental health center apply for a grant. In looking through grants, I was struck by how many o...

I talk a lot about deciding how much to give, but I want to make it a bit more concrete. I know it's weird to lay your finances before ...

These are arguments I've heard against giving, or against the type of giving I do. “I have no obligation to solve other people's p...

Economists love to think about tradeoffs (or opportunity costs, as they call them). Any money we spend can't be spent on something else...