Caring from the Heart

By Betsy Schwarzentraub | March 19, 2019

Having explored the Bible’s connections between “heart” and “soul” in Growing Generous Souls, I was drawn to a book called Caring from the Heart: The Convergence of Caring and Spirituality, edited by M. Simone Roach. At first blush, this book and the Bible seem like an odd connection, but not really. It is written by…

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Generosity – Spiritual Deepening

By Betsy Schwarzentraub | July 1, 2013

Through life’s ups and downs, we are either growing or withering away. Whenever we seek to live generously, it puts us on the side of growing. So the “S” in “Generosity” can stand for spiritual deepening. How does this happen? As we focus on God’s abundant grace in the gift of God’s love in our…

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A Spirituality of Fundraising

By Betsy Schwarzentraub | January 15, 2011

Written 2/15/2011 Okay, I admit it: I’ve been using the term “fundraising” for everything I don’t like about many secular financial appeal campaigns: lack of theological grounding, emotional manipulation, focus on the money, disregard for the donor as a person, and mechanistic gimmicks. But Henri Nouwen, author, Catholic priest, spiritual mentor, and model for so…

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