At the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Dallas, more and more parishioners have signed up to give tithes and offerings by automatic assessment of their Visa or American Express accounts.
"They want to get the points, and that's fine," said Bobby Brown, the church's business manager.
But is it really Christian to collect frequent flier points on the way to heaven? Are churches that take plastic contributing to the nation's credit card debt crisis? Does automatic assessment rob from the thoughtfulness and spirituality of giving?...