How the actions of this poor widow challenges a slightly irreverant, Linux-using, business school educated Christian. And his money.
The answer is yes. More money will make you happier, until you hit about $40,000 a year. Forty thousand dollars? Yep, that’s right. After that, the affect of marginal income is, well… marginal.
There’s actually a wide body of research around money and happiness. Economists discovered that once you are able to [...]
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by Ryan
Filed under: chasing happiness, economic theory | 7 Comments »
It’s free to have Jesus in your heart. But to have the Pope in your city, that’ll cost a little over $1 million a day, according to this NY Times article. It lists security, transportation, and street closings among the myriad costs of a papal visit. The local archdioceses are responsible for much of [...]
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Ryan
Filed under: Christian tradition, charitable, church, diary worthy, economic theory | 6 Comments »
I’ve written a few blog posts about our local church, MBCC, since I started attending. But this is the first time I’ve written in my blog from church. That’s right. It’s 11:30 on Sunday morning, and I’m sitting in church. The pastor is “preaching” about creation, and I’m sitting in service with [...]
Posted on April 13th, 2008 by Ryan
Filed under: Christian tradition, church, societal concerns | 4 Comments »
Seattle church pastor and popular blog writer, Eugene Cho, started a fascinating discussion about church, dating, and gender roles with his blog post Cute Guys and his follow up post Cute Gals. In the original post, the pastor shares a joke about the purported lack of cute cute guys in his church.
Single Woman at Church: [...]
Posted on April 13th, 2008 by Ryan
Filed under: church, societal concerns | 2 Comments »
Hayley and I just celebrated our second anniversary, and Hayley wrote a rosy blog post gushing about how great married life is. I agree that our last two years have been good. But Hayley has ulterior motives.
All women want to be married. (It’s fun to make sweeping generalizations). Hayley, via her [...]
Posted on April 9th, 2008 by Ryan
Filed under: chasing happiness, diary worthy, societal concerns | 7 Comments »
It’s impressive how much we can gather just from listening to the tone of someone’s voice. We can tell whether someone’s happy or upset, interested or irritated. But this skill reaches a whole new level when you’ve been married to (or together with) someone for a while.
Take Hayley for instance. At 7:00 [...]
Posted on April 2nd, 2008 by Ryan
Filed under: diary worthy, relationships (and money) | 11 Comments »