{"id":488,"date":"2006-05-06T21:23:26","date_gmt":"2006-05-06T21:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/parable_in_prac.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:46:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:46:46","slug":"parable_in_prac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/parable_in_prac.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Parable in Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"

From The Week<\/a> magazine in the “It wasn’t all bad”<\/em> section, just inside the cover [My comments in brackets]:<\/p>\n

Six months ago, Rev. Michael Eden of the St. Peter and St. Mary’s Church in Stowmarket, England, decided to raise money to repair the 14th-century structure. Invoking the biblical story of the talents, Eden distributed about $18 apiece to 90 parishioners [That’s about $1,620 – salguod], hoping they would “go forth and multiply.” They did just that, returning with more than $9,200 [That’s about $102 each – salguod]. One congregant used the money to buy baking ingredients, and made more than $750 selling cakes and scones. Another earned $138 by selling scarfs made from wool she bought. “God gives us all sorts of things,” observed Eden, “but does not expect us to waste them and do nothing.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pretty cool, eh? I would have loved to hear his charge when handing out the money.
\nOh, and I wonder, did anyone come back with only $18 after hiding it in a hole in the ground?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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