by Chad S. Hamilton ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 3, 2015
A guide to personal finance and retirement that, through a Christian lens, focuses more on why than how.
A guide to personal finance based on a Christian worldview.
In this debut personal finance book, Hamilton draws on the works of philosophers as well as his experience in the financial planning industry to offer a framework for developing financial goals that produce a positive effect on both the individual and society. Hamilton spends little time on specific guidelines for investments or target numbers for retirement planning; the bulk of the narrative addresses the relationship between financial behavior and personal values. “It’s easy to live according to the belief that our financial lives function separately from other areas of life,” he says. “But we need to realize that this is a fallacy, and a harmful one at that.” While the discussion of values begins in a secular context, by the midpoint of the narrative, the spiritual values become explicitly Christian: “This is where God with a capital ‘g’ comes in;” “I would submit that there is one ultimate epic tale, one meta-narrative that informs and instructs us. It is the story of Jesus Christ that is the baseline narrative which perfectly presents both the problem and the solution for humanity.” Hamilton encourages readers to find their purposes in life, align personal and financial values, and set financial goals that allow fulfillment through service to others—in particular, preparing for a retirement that provides the financial freedom to make choices without regular income while developing the mentality that retirement is a time for improving the world, not just leisure. Throughout the book, Hamilton draws on a gardening metaphor to vividly illustrate his arguments: for instance, “High quality bonds are like expensive mulch.” The book also draws heavily on anecdotal examples, from Southwest CEO Herb Kelleher to Abraham Lincoln to Delancey Street founder Mimi Silbert, to illustrate a purpose-driven ideal. The result is a useful tool for readers interested in developing a conceptual framework for their financial lives.
A guide to personal finance and retirement that, through a Christian lens, focuses more on why than how.Pub Date: March 3, 2015
ISBN: 978-0-615-81738-5
Page Count: 240
Publisher: PFI Wealth Advisory
Review Posted Online: Sept. 4, 2015
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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by Charlayne Hunter-Gault ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 1992
From the national correspondent for PBS's MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour: a moving memoir of her youth in the Deep South and her role in desegregating the Univ. of Georgia. The eldest daughter of an army chaplain, Hunter-Gault was born in what she calls the ``first of many places that I would call `my place' ''—the small village of Due West, tucked away in a remote little corner of South Carolina. While her father served in Korea, Hunter-Gault and her mother moved first to Covington, Georgia, and then to Atlanta. In ``L.A.'' (lovely Atlanta), surrounded by her loving family and a close-knit black community, the author enjoyed a happy childhood participating in activities at church and at school, where her intellectual and leadership abilities soon were noticed by both faculty and peers. In high school, Hunter-Gault found herself studying the ``comic-strip character Brenda Starr as I might have studied a journalism textbook, had there been one.'' Determined to be a journalist, she applied to several colleges—all outside of Georgia, for ``to discourage the possibility that a black student would even think of applying to one of those white schools, the state provided money for black students'' to study out of state. Accepted at Michigan's Wayne State, the author was encouraged by local civil-rights leaders to apply, along with another classmate, to the Univ. of Georgia as well. Her application became a test of changing racial attitudes, as well as of the growing strength of the civil-rights movement in the South, and Gault became a national figure as she braved an onslaught of hostilities and harassment to become the first black woman to attend the university. A remarkably generous, fair-minded account of overcoming some of the biggest, and most intractable, obstacles ever deployed by southern racists. (Photographs—not seen.)
Pub Date: Nov. 1, 1992
ISBN: 0-374-17563-2
Page Count: 192
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1992
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by William Strunk & E.B. White ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 15, 1972
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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