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Cultivating Generosity: Giving What’S Right, Not What’S Left
Cultivating Generosity: Giving What’S Right, Not What’S Left
Cultivating Generosity: Giving What’S Right, Not What’S Left
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At last! An insightful book about cultivating generosity from a generous lay leader and donor, and not from a professional fundraiser or clergy leader. Rem Stokes alone knows more about the psychology of donorsand has demonstrated that insight over more yearsthan a whole busload of ministers and consultants put together. If you want to understand how to change the culture of your congregation or group in the direction of abundance, not scarcity, this is your guidebook.

Rev. John Buehrens, former president of the Unitarian Universalist Association

Money pervades all aspects of our lives, but we dare not discuss it for fear of touching the proverbial third rail. The discomfort we experience may be that it reveals more than we want it to. All individuals fear rejection and want acceptance. And money becomes the agent of compensation, the hopium of the masses.

But it is a false hope. Money is extrinsic and can only buy external things. Money simply cannot buy the things most worth having.

Wherever there is pain or embarrassment, there is essential learning to be done.

I believe churches should address the stranglehold that money has on our attitudes. Churches cannot be truly relevant to their members real-life issues without addressing the money dimension that underlies their attitudes and behaviors. You cannot compartmentalize a person into secular and spiritual categories without damaging his wholeness.

This book addresses that issue head on. Churches need programs that let money permeate the environment in a wholesome and constructive way. Those programs should help overcome the reluctance to discuss money and cultivate a culture of generosity. This book provides a set of exercises and a rationale for churches to achieve these goals, moving members from self-interest to self-esteem.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 23, 2013
ISBN9781489700438
Cultivating Generosity: Giving What’S Right, Not What’S Left
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Rem Stokes

The author spent his career in science and holds 22 patents. He invented the US laminated coinage. In retirement he taught Western Civilization history. The challenge of living with a compartmentalized mind using reason at work and faith in religion provoked him to undertake the study that led to this book.

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