“And the Lord God commanded the man, ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.’ ” (Genesis 2:16-17). “… In the course of ...

Q. My wife and I are currently on Baby Step 2 of your plan. We attend church regularly, and we’ve always made sure we tithed 10% to 15% in the past. Do you think it would be OK to lower our tithe ...

(RNS) — Tithing can’t be reduced to checking a box that says you support an insanely wealthy institution with yet more wealth and are suddenly right with the Lord because of it. (RNS) — There’s a ...