Some retirees don’t love being asked how they’re spending their time. They were accountable for their time while working, so having to “give an account” in retirement feels a little uncomfortable, even in informal conversation. Still, people are curious. Or they’re just making polite retirement chit-chat because they have absolutely nothing else to talk about. … Read more
Ask a roomful of retirees what keeps them up at night, and you’ll hear the same answer from many of them: running out of money. Not death, not illness, not nothing to keep them busy—money. The technical term for this is “longevity risk,” but a less technical, more common term for some is FORO—”fear of … Read more
If you’ve spent any time around Christians who take money seriously — especially pastors, teachers, deacons, and writers like me — you’ve noticed something: we really love the word stewardship. We put it on book titles and seminar banners. We name giving campaigns after it. We work it into sermons, small-group discussions, and financial-planning conversations. … Read more
I’ll admit that retirement planning is serious business. Scripture, faith, wisdom, stewardship; plus sequence of returns, required minimum distributions, Social Security optimization strategies—there’s no shortage of weighty topics to wrestle with, and we wrestle with them regularly around here. I’m still working on the “Biblically-Informed Framework for Retirement Stewardship” (BIFRS) series, which will probably take … Read more
