Jason Timothy Smith describes himself as an accountant by day, and artist by night. He talks about a book called "Suma de Arithmetica," about Fra Luca Pacioli, an Italian Mathematician known as the “father of accounting,” who was also math teacher to Leonardo da Vinci. Pacioli also wrote "The Divine Proportion" about the Golden Ratio, or the Golden Mean, used by Renaissance artists in their painting composition.

Pacioli was a Franciscan friar who saw theological implications in these mathematical relationships. In accounting, the act of balancing credits and debits is called reconciliation. And in Luke 6:27-38, Jesus calls for us to give a record of our spiritual life in terms of our relationships with our debtors, the sum of which can be measured by whether we love our enemies.

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