{"id":358,"date":"2009-05-22T18:05:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T18:05:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-22T18:05:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T18:05:11","slug":"our-own-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/food-faith\/our-own-backyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Own Backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; \"><a href=\"http:\/\/presbyterian.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451b5a569e201156fa9ee95970c-popup\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href,&#39;_blank&#39;,&#39;scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39;); return false\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zinvine\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d83451b5a569e201156fa9ee95970c \" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/6a00d83451b5a569e201156fa9ee95970c-320pi\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Zinvine\" \/><\/a> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">I want to start this entry with the following disclaimer: I am not currently employed by any Christian-affiliated organization but I have been and hope to do so again.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">I am grateful for having had the opportunity to do meaningful work with compensation and I am even more grateful when I remember that my paycheck started out in an offering plate. What little income I currently earn as a free-lance writer for Presbyterian-related publications also starts its path toward me as a ten or twenty-dollar bill pulled out of a wallet or a pocket and folded discreetly in someone\u2019s hand as they await the solemn passing of the often decades old offering plate.&#0160; As a free-lance writer and occasional pulpit supply preacher, I remain aware that my income, meager as it is, is someone else\u2019s sacrificial gift. In these economic times, tithing has become both more important and more potentially sacrificial as jobs disappear, savings dive with the market, and paid hours are cut in the workplace.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to start this entry with the following disclaimer: I am not currently employed by any Christian-affiliated organization but I have been and hope to do so again. 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