Anyone have access to any articles or essays on tithing, specifically from an Anglican perspective? Trying to wrap my brain around the idea that to be giving properly, 10% of your income is required. In today’s world, that’s asking so much of people who don’t always have much to give. ⚓️
English Whigs and Tories wrote about it A Lot in the 18th century. Although the issue at stake at that point was whether Dissenters should have to pay tithes to the Church of England.
Just my own opinion: I dont think an automatic 10% tithe is a real rule for Christians. It seems from Acts & from Jesus' own teaching that giving is about how God is leading you, (which can sometimes cost literally everything.) And it shouldn't be for attention. I think thats it though. 🤷♂️
10% *of the produce of the land*. is the biblical standard. So if you're a paid labourer with no land, that's a tithe of zero. Making it into a regressive 10% of income is possibly peak American Christianity...
