Why did the church file 13 F documents with separate shell companies if there was no tax

advantage for doing so.

Could there be more to the story than simply saying church leaders listen to bad legal counsel in the context of the recent SEC fine?

What's the latest on the case of James Huntsman, who is currently suing the church to get over $5 million of his tithing return to him?

And should church leaders be more transparent with church members about church assets?

Why or why not?

And what about the size of the church's multi-billion dollar reserve?

How can we best situate or contextualize that amount relative to other large organizations.

And with so much money, does the church even need our tiding dollars anymore?

How effective is the church at humanitarian work?

Like if we wanted to donate to humanitarian aid,

would we be better off giving our money to the church or some other humanitarian organization?

And finally, is capitalism completely? some other humanitarian organization.

And finally, is capitalism compatible with consecration and Zion building?

All of these questions and more coming your way on today's episode of Church History

matters. I'm Scott Woodward and my

co-host is Casey Griffiths and today we dive into our eighth and final episode of

this series dealing with consecration and church finances. Now let's get did it. We made it to the last episode of our church finance series, man.

I think this is the first time that we've had two

experts appear because there's so much stuff to talk about and we really broke it

into early church finance controversies, Elizabeth Kane and Jeffrey Mahaz did an excellent job answering questions there.

That was very fun.

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