Faith finance9/17/2023 ![]() In an era when financial practices are pronounced too specialized for broad-based public, democratic debate, Virtue, Fortune, and Faith questions assumptions about international finance’s unchallenged position and effectively exposes its ambiguous scientific authority. ![]() De Goede explores the political contestations over ideas of time and money the gendered discourse of credit and credibility differences among gambling, finance, and speculation debates over the proper definition of the free market the meaning of financial crisis and the morality of speculation. Regardless, this history has had a far-reaching impact on the development of the modern international financial institutions that act as the stewards of the world’s economic resources. When closely examined, the history of finance is one of colonial conquest, sexual imagination, constructions of time, and discourses of legitimate (or illegitimate) profit making. Using a deft integration of feminist and poststructuralist approaches, she demonstrates that finance-not just its rules of personal engagement, but also its statistics, formulas, instruments, and institutions-is a profoundly cultural and politically contingent practice. Marieke de Goede discusses moral, religious, and political transformations that have slowly naturalized the domain of finance. A unique cultural history of modern financial markets from the early eighteenth century to the present day, the book offers a genealogical reading of the historical insecurities, debates, and controversies that had to be purged from nascent credit practices in order to produce the image of today’s coherent and-largely-rational global financial sphere. How this change in status came about, and what it reveals about the nature of finance, is the story told in Virtue, Fortune, and Faith. Read the full blog at the Dainty Jewell’s Blog.Less than two centuries ago finance-today viewed as the center of economic necessity and epitome of scientific respectability-stood condemned as disreputable fraud. What is one step you can take today to honor God with your finances? Honoring God with any portion of our lives-including with our money-takes discipline, persistence, and grace. "Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men."- Colossians 3:23 Giving is action. We can honor God by taking small steps toward paying off our debts, living below our means, and being content with what we do have and delaying gratification to save for what we want. "The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender." – Proverbs 22:7, ESV. We can honor God by paying the first ten percent of our income to Him through our local church. ![]() We are to give God the best and first of everything that we give Him, but specifically with our finances and all that we earn. "Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops."- Proverbs 3:9, NIV. We are to be "living sacrifices" to God, so there are many ways in which we can honor God, but as a financial educator and Christian, I believe we must honor Him with our finances as well: We are bringing together pastors and impact investors, theologians and social entrepreneurs, and other business and faith leaders to respond with courage and imagination to the most urgent and demanding economic, social, environmental, and spiritual challenges of our day. Still, it was not until going through the heartache of financial struggles that I realized how much (or how little) of what I did with that money was reflecting my devotion to God. I was taught the principle of paying tithe and giving in the offering at a very young age. I wanted to share an article I wrote for the Dainty Jewell’s Blog that shares 3 ways in which we can honor God with our finances. ![]()
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