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Ken wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:44 am I've never been to any church service that weighed in one way or the other on family size. Not once.

Was not uncommon in Charity back in the day.

For us, not at all due to infertility. I do think that unfortunately peer pressure is influencing family sizes smaller than they used to be.

Thanks Josh.

Since JayP revived this thread, and he's Catholic, I'll repeat a point I often make. Most of us are descended from Western Catholic traditions and origins, and for various reasons we all basically have identical cristology and trinitarian doctrine to the Roman Catholic church. I find that very inte...

Mike's post aligns with my observations.

Moving income from a higher income tax year to a lower income tax year in order to lower income taxes... is called.... tax avoidance! That's what IRAs are designed for. Slightly pedantic, I know, but Traditional IRA's are a mixture of deferral and avoidance, unless withdrawn only in years when they...

That one of obvious corruption is exactly what’s killing many Mennonite churches. And a question I have is, to the “enforcers” who retaliate like describe above and excuse their own children’s misdeeds… What, if any, relationship do they have with the Lord? Are they even still Christians? I don't d...

In our conference: So - EPMC? There is a standardized procedure that is followed, and it is read and explained during the nomination service. It is common, possibly standard, for this explanation to include the statement that the bishops will exercise discretion in receiving nominations - ie. they ...

@ Josh and NedFlanders , point taken, I feel properly chastised. I'm probably more susceptible to frustration at seeing the lines move after watching them nearly dissolve at the church where I spent my formative years. Still, something is wrong when a deacon's son can drive an "illegal" ca...

ken_sylvania wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:55 am So of course his customers aren't suing him even if they ... die ....

That would pose a slight difficulty.