It's rare to say that a news story changed your life or your course of behavior. But that's what happened to me a year ago, when Religion Unplugged and the Washington Post broke the story that my church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had amassed a nest egg in excess of $100 billion.
Weirdly, I had recently written a column called "I just paid my Mormon tithing. Why don't I feel better about it?" In the article I discussed the annual December tradition of tithing settlement, in which church members can sit down with their bishop to discuss their giving and whether they are "full" tithe-payers, donating 10% of their income.
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