In last month’s newsletter, we began talking about what specific gifts people can make – to their church directly, to an endowment fund, or for another designated purpose. We talked about the simplest gifts – gifts of cash, gifts of securities and gifts of real estate. Today, we begin to discuss more complex gifts. These are not […]
We don’t like to continually talk about the equity markets, however we have been, and still are, in a precarious time. Hence, the reason for this article. On March 9th we began the 10th year of one of the longest bull markets in history. Yet in the past couple months, we’ve seen wild swings in the markets. […]
When we talk about planned giving, we often talk about why people make gifts, but we don’t often elaborate on what specific gifts people can make. This will be the first of a three-part article on those specific gifts you can make – either now, during the remainder of your life, or at the end of your life – […]
When I was in my final seminary year at Duke University, I had the privilege of organizing the weekly communion service for the divinity school community. One of the first preachers we had that year was Dr. Peter Storey, a retired bishop of the Methodist Church of South Africa and somebody who became a great […]
All of us have been struck by the turbulence in the market in recent weeks – huge swings both up and down. What happened to good old 2017 where we never had more than a 2% swing and, on many days, the major indices were recording new all-time highs? Hate to say it, but the […]
