Financial Advice for Millennials
A recent Marketplace report casts a sobering light on the financial situation of many Millennials. Click here to check out Trent Hamm’s thoughts on how to avoid being saddled with debt for a lifetime....
View ArticleClutter Culture Examined
Click here to watch a fascinating three-part short video series about the clutter culture of middle class abundance in the United States. According to social scientists at UCLA “Contemporary US...
View ArticleChildren & Possessions
Here’s a wonderful photo documentary featuring children from around the world with their most treasured possessions. How might you use these photos in your own context to talk about possessions,...
View ArticleStuff Love
Though there’s nothing new in the human drive to acquire more and more of the world’s goods, advancements in our technology for consuming make current levels of consumption even more hazardous than in...
View ArticleEveryday Choices for a Better World
Check out this list of simple everyday choices you can make to contribute to a better world. While you’re at it, check out the rest of the New Community Project website. (Photo: jetalone, Creative...
View ArticleWhen Paying More is Better Stewardship
When does good stewardship involve spending more for something? Tom Beutel, writing for PeaceSigns, does an excellent job of showing why buying at least some fair trade clothing is better stewardship...
View ArticleSecond-hand Wise
Click here to read Leah Wise’s reflection on how shopping in thrift stores–made popular by Mackelmore and Ryan Lewis–can actually be a way to practice better stewardship and do justice. While you’re...
View ArticleFrom Farm to Trash?
Did you know that 40% of all food grown in the U.S. is wasted? Take time to read this article and evaluate your own stewardship of food. (Photo: jbloom, Creative Commons License. Thanks!)
View ArticleJourneying Out of the Land of Materialism
“I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in America and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand...
View ArticleThe Cost of Being a Christian
Christians love to blame social justice issues on large corporations, rich banks, corrupt governments, and our culture’s greedy obsession with money. But Westernized Christianity has quietly created an...
View ArticleReducing your “Food-Print”
Approximately 1.3 billion tons of food goes to waste each year. This is not good stewardship! Think.Eat.Save is a website created by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization that’s dedicated to...
View ArticleWhen Art + Activism = Awareness
Here’s an article that is both heartbreaking and compelling–a conversation with internationally acclaimed artist and cultural activist Chris Jordan. Combining mass culture and art, Jordan aims to...
View ArticleSo It Is
Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Lectionary Reflection August 4, 2013 So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God. Luke 12:21 We are much better at preparing to...
View ArticleMindful Dis-possessing
Take the time to read Lisa Meeder Turnbull’s lovely stewardship reflection. You’ll be glad that you did, and you may even be tempted to start tossing and transferring possessions and talking to the...
View ArticleLearning to Hold Lightly to Life
“Life is all a sublet anyway, of course. We don’t fully own even the bodies we live in; we can’t stop them from changing….And this knowledge of loss, I’ve discovered, is the salt that brings up the...
View ArticleNeed A Book Club Recommendation?
Check out Pr. Nadia Bolz-Weber’s blog for a brief review of Free: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most by Mark Scandrette, and then consider reading the book and using it for a group study...
View ArticleThree Simple Actions: Modeling Stewardship for ‘Tweens
Chris McKenna, Director of Middle School Ministry at Cornerstone United Methodist Church in Caledonia, Michigan, shares three simple actions to help ‘tweens become better stewards of God’s gifts....
View ArticleReally, Jesus?
Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Lectionary Reflection September 8, 2013 So therefore, none of you can become my disciple if you do not give up all your possessions. Luke 14:33 “Really, Jesus? Really!?...
View ArticleTrue Wealth
Lectionary Reflection for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 29, 2013 As for those who in the present age are rich, command them not to be haughty, or to set their hopes on the uncertainty...
View ArticleBeyond Mindful Consumption
Once again, Annie Leonard–who brought us “The Story of Stuff”–invites us not only to consider our consumption but also to be more than merely mindful about it. Consumption is intricately interwoven...
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