Faith And Finances

Family communication has its challenges today. A good old fashioned, face-to-face conversation has been reduced to a text message; with abbreviated words to boot, lol! And there are topics that require our focus and clear communication but many prefer to avoid them—like money. Perhaps we can blame it on Emily Post's book of Etiquette (1922), which lambasted talk of money. It seems generations of parents for almost 100 years have carried on her view of money-talk as taboo.   In This Episode, We Look At: Communication about money According to an Ally Bank survey, 7 out of 10 people consider it rude to talk about money. It does seem that millennials are breaking the trend; "more than half readily disclose their income, savings, or debts to other people, Ally found." This is one area that I am "with the Millennials". Plan your talks 45% said they would rather plan a dinner discussion for the topic of money rather than talk on the fly. During a drive When writing a tithe check, offering, or giving on