In Canada’s Globe and Mail:

*Quoting the Canadian Department of Finance: ”we are a nation where churches outnumber bank branches by almost 3 to 1 (23,427 Christian churches, 8,000 bank branches). ”

*”If, as the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy reports, 5.4 million Canadians are attending church each week, this must be the most invisible national pastime we’ve ever known. Surely the entrepreneurial imagination must wonder what we could withdraw from the church during this time of unprecedented economic challenge.”

*The Bible “gives advice on money four times as often as it does on prayer. More than 2,000 verses, which Christian author Philip Yancey says can be summarized into three basic questions: How did you get it? What are you doing with it? What is it doing to you?”