Christmas Gift-giving —Good or Evil?

For the difference in cost between a Lexus SUV and a Toyota SUV…

…you could buy 174 water buffalos for poor families in Asia

Heifer Project

• For the cost of this beautiful (?) objet d’art… ($115,000)

• You could provide long-term economic security to thousands of people

• http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.201452/

• What does it mean to be “cosmopolitan”?

• What does it mean to express “care” for members of our families when we are already comfortable?

• Why do we spend money the way we do?

• What will be the long-term implications of the concentration of wealth?

The Truth May, in Fact, Make you Less Free (to indulge yourself)

Observe the world and your place in it, Who

needs your generosity?