Category: Youth

Slay those Student Loans Part 5: Justice

By Victoria Sechrist (ConsumerCatholic.com) Part 5 of a 5-Part Series on Student Loans We have reached the end of our series, and this week, we’re discussing the virtue of justice. We will look at this both from the perspective of you, the borrower, and the lender.  While you may be hoping that justice would mean […]

Feeling hopeless about student loans? Start with a theological virtue

By Victoria Sechrist (ConsumerCatholic.com) Part 1 of a 5-Part Series on Student Loans There is no patron saint of student loans specifically, but maybe someday there will be. In the meantime, you can lean on:  Saint Edwiges, patron saint of debtors  Saint Matthew the Apostle, patron saint of finances   Saint Anthony of Padua, known to […]

Should Children Get an Allowance?

We firmly believe that the earlier you teach children how to handle money and make them responsible for their own financial decisions, the better off they will be when they are ready to strike out on their own. The tools for teaching kids about money include: Giving them an allowance Expecting them to do chores […]

What Your Graduate Needs to Know About Money

One of the things we hear most often from people who take the Navigating Your Finances God’s Way Bible Study is; “I wish I had learned this earlier.”  If your child is a high school or college senior, or between high school and the next step in life–either college, trade school, or a job, and […]

Money and Generation Z

A “Millennial” is a person who reached young adulthood around the year 2000. Generation Z (also known as Post-Millennials) is the generation following the Millennials. The oldest members are somewhere between 18 to 22 years old. The Gen Z attitudes about money were impacted by hardships of their parents during the 2008 recession, along with the boom […]

How to Manage Money in Your 20’s

You’ve graduated from college and have your first adult job and a new lifestyle.  Your job comes with a salary that’s larger than any you have had previously. Our advice is to continue to live like a broke college student. Each time your income increases it’s easy to increase your spending to consume all of […]

What Teens Need to Know About Money

One of the things we hear most often from people who take the Navigating Your Finances God’s Way Bible Study is; “I wish I had learned this earlier.”  It is really crazy that we as parents do not do a good job of teaching our children financial basics. Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train up a child […]

Millennial Money Matters

There are about 80 million millennials in the United States. While there is no such thing as precise dates assigned to specific generations of Americans, generally the people born in the late 80’s and 90’s are the millennials – the largest generation in American history. They are called millennials because they were born near the […]