Archive for February 2015
Lent Preview — Week TWO
Posted on: February 27, 2015
No, thank you, sir. During Lent I’m practicing moderation.
Online I offer free resources for the 40 days of Lent that center around Alternatives’ legacy resources based on Liturgical Year B (Mark).
Two 40-day calendars:
And two study guides that include weekly reflections and activities:
- Learning to Live by God’s Truth
For a gentle daily reminder, follow me on Twitter or Linked-In (see below).
This Week
3/1-Second Sunday in Lent: Read your 40-day Guide and the reflection for this day in your chosen series.
3/2-Mon., Lent Day 11: Read your 40-day Guide; read activities for Second Sunday in Lent in your chosen series, select one to do.
3/3-Tues., Lent Day 12: Read your 40-day Guide & read A Piece of the Pie
3/4-Wed., Lent Day 13: Read your 40-day Guide & When We Disagree
3/5-Thur., Lent Day 14: Read your 40-day Guide & A Meditation on Lint (+ART)
3/6-Fri., Lent Day 15: Read your 40-day Guide & What Wondrous Love (+ART)
3/7-Sat., Lent Day 16: Read your 40-day Guide & catch-up on items you may have missed during the week.
3/8-Third Sunday in Lent: Read your 40-day Guide and the reflection for this day in your chosen series.
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- Susan Vogt-part 2-Podcast Reminder: Author, speaker, blogger, Champion of Simple Living today // Podcast Part 1 // Part 2 // Susan’s Site: marriage, parenting, spirituality, leadership, workshops, books, about Susan
- Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? is an expanding, free collection of alternative resources for Lent/Holy/Week/Easter. This year it features ten lenten blogs by author, speaker, workshop leader Susan Vogt. Susan is also our interviewee on both episodes of SLW! Podcast this month. Get to know her in Part One. Part Two focuses on alternative Lenten practices. Contribute to Whose Risen from the Dead, Anyway? online. | Submission Guidelines || MORE Free Lent/Easter Alternative Resources
- Alternative Ash Wed. and Lent, Feb. 18-April 4
- MORE Free Lent/Easter Alternative Resources
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – March
- Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index
What’s Coming
- SLW! Podcast: March 1 – Blogger, event organizer Joel Zaslofsky (preview interview now). Joel is the Chief Simplifier, Curator, and Founder at Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent. He also hosts the popular Smart and Simple Matters show, SimpleREV Conference and All Things SimpleREV Podcast; author of Experience Curating: How to Gain Focus, Increase Influence and Simply Your Life
- March 15 – Sarah van Gelder, editor of YES! Magazine and author of Sustainable Happiness.
- Blog: Waging Peace at Tax Time
What’s Happened
- Lent Preview – Week ONE
- Lent Preview – Week ZERO
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
What Others Are Doing
- The Common Good Podcast: March 1–Episode 57: Marco Tavanti on Sustainable Development
- NEW three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show - Godspace for Lent 2015: Seven Tips for Creating Sacred Space for Lent || 5 Ways to Foster Creativity in Kids During Lent || Get Creative and Play Games in Lent
- Colleague Kevin Tupper’s new Christian Simplicity site is starting a new discussion using Mark Scandrette’s book, “FREE: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most.” He welcomes anyone to join in.
- Lenten Reflection: Thinking about food in a time of fasting
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3).
Episode Index
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IMAGE: Spirit of Simplicity: Quotes & Art #3-A0333
For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 * (847) 690-9410 * archives@elca.org
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away at least 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations – Christmas, birthdays, etc. — to local, national and international causes.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index. To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog several times a week.
Vogt family photo
Susan Vogt, author, speaker, blogger, Champion of Simple Living today
Susan’s Site: marriage, parenting, spirituality, leadership, workshops, books, about Susan
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What’s NOW with SLW!
- Lent Preview – Week ONE // Online I offer free resources for the 40 days of Lent (Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18 through Holy Saturday, April 14) that center around Alternatives’ legacy resources based on Liturgical Year B (Mark). Two 40-day calendars:
and two study guides that include weekly reflections and activities:
- Learning to Live by God’s Truth
For a gentle daily reminder, follow me on Twitter or Linked-In (see below).
This Week
2/22-First Sun. in Lent: read your 40-day guide and the reflection for this day in your chosen series.
Mon., 2/23-Read Day 5 of your 40-day guide; read the activities for the First Sun. in Lent from the series you’ve chosen; select at least one activity to do.
Tues., 2/24-Read Day 6 of your 40-day guide; read A Meditation for Early Lent
Wed., 2/25-Read day 7 of your 40-day guide; read one or more part of John de Graaf Lenten sermon series. John’s producer and co-author of Affluenza: the All-Consuming Epidemic.
2/26-Thur.-Read day 8 of your 40-day guide; read Lent – Have you given up on giving up?
2/27-Fri.: Read day 9 of your 40-day guide; read Trophies for Tightwads
2/28-Sat.: Read day 10 of your 40-day guide; catch-up on items you may have missed during the week.
3/1-Second Sun. in Lent: Read your 40-day guide and the reflection for this day in your chosen series.
- Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? is an expanding, free collection of alternative resources for Lent/Holy/Week/Easter. This year it features ten lenten blogs by author, speaker, workshop leader Susan Vogt. Susan is also our interviewee on both episodes of SLW! Podcast this month. Get to know her in Part One. Part Two, released Feb. 15, focuses on alternative Lenten practices. Contribute to Whose Risen from the Dead, Anyway? online. | Submission Guidelines || MORE Free Lent/Easter Alternative Resources
- Alternative Ash Wed. and Lent, Feb. 18-April 4
- MORE Free Lent/Easter Alternative Resources
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – March
- Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index
What’s Coming
- Waging Peace at Tax Time
- March 1 – Blogger, event organizer Joel Zaslofsky. Joel is the Chief Simplifier, Curator, and Founder at Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent. He also hosts the popular Smart and Simple Matters show, SimpleREV Conference and All Things SimpleREV Podcast; author of Experience Curating: How to Gain Focus, Increase Influence and Simply Your Life
- March 15 – Sarah van Gelder, editor of YES! Magazine and author of Sustainable Happiness.
What’s Happened
- LENT Preview – Week Zero // Mon., 2/16-Lent Prep – Read the Introduction to the two Mark-based 40-day guides. Choose one for the season. // Tues., 2/17-Lent Eve – Read the Introductions of both Mark-based series. Choose one for the season. // 2/18-Lent Day 1, Ash Wed.: read day 1 of the 40-day guide you’ve chosen; read the reflection for Ash Wed. from the series you’ve chosen. // 2/19-Thur.: read day 2 of your 40-day guide; read the activities for Ash Wed. from the series you’ve chosen; select at least one activity to do. // 2/20-Fri.: read day 3 of your 40-day guide; read A Different Kind of Lent // 2/21-Sat.: read day 4 of your 40-day guide; catch-up on items you may have missed during the week. // 2/22-First Sun. in Lent: read your 40-day guide and the reflection for this day in your chosen series.
- PEACE – Institute for Peace & Justice; more
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
What Others Are Doing
- The Common Good Podcast
Episode 56: Carol Watkins on Shared Housing - NEW three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show - Godspace for Lent 2015: Seven Tips for Creating Sacred Space for Lent || 5 Ways to Foster Creativity in Kids During Lent || Get Creative and Play Games in Lent
- Colleague Kevin Tupper’s new Christian Simplicity site is starting a new discussion using Mark Scandrette’s book, “FREE: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most.” He welcomes anyone to join in.
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3).
Episode Index
Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent).
SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments at the bottom of Show Notes, then check ‘Notify me of new posts by email.’ Please rate us in iTunes and leave a review. Send us your email address to receive the free monthly SLW! eNews. Remember to like us on Facebook. Urge your friends to do the same.
Do your friends a favor. Share our blog and podcast.
Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest. Share your thoughts on our podcast and blogs. Email Feedback AT SimpleLivingWorks DOT org [or SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com or SimpleLivingWorks2@gmail.com], leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
IMAGE: Vogt family photo
For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 * (847) 690-9410 * archives@elca.org
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away at least 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations – Christmas, birthdays, etc. — to local, national and international causes.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index. To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog several times a week.
LENT Preview – Week ONE
Posted on: February 22, 2015
Online I offer free resources for the 40 days of Lent (Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18 through Holy Saturday, April 14) that center around Alternatives’ legacy resources based on Liturgical Year B (Mark). Two 40-day calendars:
and two study guides that include weekly reflections and activities:
- Learning to Live by God’s Truth
For a gentle daily reminder, follow me on Twitter or Linked-In (see below).
This Week
2/22-First Sun. in Lent: read your 40-day guide and the reflection for this day in your chosen series.
Mon., 2/23-Read Day 5 of your 40-day guide; read the activities for the First Sun. in Lent from the series you’ve chosen; select at least one activity to do.
Tues., 2/24-Read Day 6 of your 40-day guide; read A Meditation for Early Lent
Wed., 2/25-Read day 7 of your 40-day guide; read one or more part of John de Graaf Lenten sermon series. John’s producer and co-author of Affluenza: the All-Consuming Epidemic.
2/26-Thur.-Read day 8 of your 40-day guide; read Lent – Have you given up on giving up?
2/27-Fri.: Read day 9 of your 40-day guide; read Trophies for Tightwads
2/28-Sat.: Read day 10 of your 40-day guide; catch-up on items you may have missed during the week.
3/1-Second Sun. in Lent: Read your 40-day guide and the reflection for this day in your chosen series.
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What’s NOW with SLW!
- LENT Preview – Week Zero // The 40 days of Lent begin Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18, and end on Holy Saturday, April 14 (also called the Vigil of Easter). Sundays during the six weeks of Lent are not counted in the 40 days.Online I offer two free 40-day calendars and two free study guides that include weekly reflections and activities. For a gentle daily reminder, follow me on Twitter and Linked-In (see below). The reminders will, appropriately, center around Alternatives’ legacy resources based on L iturgical Year B (Mark). Mon., 2/16-Lent Prep – Read the Introduction to the two Mark-based 40-day guides. Choose one for the season.
Tues., 2/17-Lent Eve – Read the Introductions of both Mark-based series. Choose one for the season.
- Learning to Live by God’s Truth
2/18-Lent Day 1, Ash Wed.: read day 1 of the 40-day guide you’ve chosen; read the reflection for Ash Wed. from the series you’ve chosen.
2/19-Thur.: read day 2 of your 40-day guide; read the activities for Ash Wed. from the series you’ve chosen; select at least one activity to do.
2/20-Fri.: read day 3 of your 40-day guide; read A Different Kind of Lent
2/21-Sat.: read day 4 of your 40-day guide; catch-up on items you may have missed during the week.
2/22-First Sun. in Lent: read your 40-day guide and the reflection for this day in your chosen series.
- Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? is an expanding, free collection of alternative resources for Lent/Holy/Week/Easter. This year it features ten lenten blogs by author, speaker, workshop leader Susan Vogt. Susan is also our interviewee on both episodes of SLW! Podcast this month. Get to know her in Part One. Part Two, released Feb. 15, focuses on alternative Lenten practices. Contribute to Whose Risen from the Dead, Anyway? online. | Submission Guidelines || MORE Free Lent/Easter Alternative Resources
- Alternative Ash Wed. and Lent, Feb. 18
- MORE Free Lent/Easter Alternative Resources
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – February
- Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index
What’s Coming
- Feb. SLW! Podcast – Author, speaker and blogger Susan Vogt
- Waging Peace at Tax Time
- March – Blogger, event organizer Joel Zaslofsky. Joel is the Chief Simplifier, Curator, and Founder at Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent. He also hosts the popular Smart and Simple Matters show, SimpleREV Conference and All Things SimpleREV Podcast; author of Experience Curating: How to Gain Focus, Increase Influence and Simply Your Life
What’s Happened
- PEACE – Institute for Peace & Justice; more
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
What Others Are Doing
- The Common Good Podcast
Episode 56: Carol Watkins on Shared Housing - NEW three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show - Godspace for Lent 2015: Seven Tips for Creating Sacred Space for Lent || 5 Ways to Foster Creativity in Kids During Lent || Get Creative and Play Games in Lent
- Colleague Kevin Tupper’s new Christian Simplicity site is starting a new discussion using Mark Scandrette’s book, “FREE: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most.” He welcomes anyone to join in.
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3).
Episode Index
Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent).
SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments at the bottom of Show Notes, then check ‘Notify me of new posts by email.’ Please rate us in iTunes and leave a review. Send us your email address to receive the free monthly SLW! eNews. Remember to like us on Facebook. Urge your friends to do the same.
Do your friends a favor. Share our blog and podcast.
Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest. Share your thoughts on our podcast and blogs. Email Feedback AT SimpleLivingWorks DOT org [or SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com or SimpleLivingWorks2@gmail.com], leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
IMAGE: Spirit of Simplicity #3-A555–Search for Truth?
For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 * (847) 690-9410 * archives@elca.org
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away at least 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations – Christmas, birthdays, etc. — to local, national and international causes.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index. To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog several times a week.
LENT Preview – Week Zero
Posted on: February 16, 2015
Learning the Cost of Discipleship
The 40 days of Lent begin Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18, and end on Holy Saturday, April 14 (also called the Vigil of Easter). Sundays during the six weeks of Lent are not counted in the 40 days.
Online I offer two free 40-day calendars and two free study guides that include weekly reflections and activities.
For a gentle daily reminder, follow me on Twitter and Linked-In (see below). The reminders will, appropriately, center around Alternatives’ legacy resources based on Liturgical Year B (Mark).
This Week
Mon., 2/16-Lent Prep – Read the Introduction to the two Mark-based 40-day guides. Choose one for the season.
Tues., 2/17-Lent Eve – Read the Introductions of both Mark-based series. Choose one for the season.
- Learning to Live by God’s Truth
2/18-Lent Day 1, Ash Wed.: read day 1 of the 40-day guide you’ve chosen; read the reflection for Ash Wed. from the series you’ve chosen.
2/19-Thur.: read day 2 of your 40-day guide; read the activities for Ash Wed. from the series you’ve chosen; select at least one activity to do.
2/20-Fri.: read day 3 of your 40-day guide; read A Different Kind of Lent
2/21-Sat.: read day 4 of your 40-day guide; catch-up on items you may have missed during the week.
2/22-First Sun. in Lent: read your 40-day guide and the reflection for this day in your chosen series.
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Subscribe to SLW! Blog
Click “+Follow” at lower right of blog post, enter a name and email address. Welcome!
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What’s NOW with SLW!
What’s Coming
What’s Happened
What Others Are Doing
Episode 56: Carol Watkins on Shared Housing
Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3).
Episode Index
Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent).
SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments at the bottom of Show Notes, then check ‘Notify me of new posts by email.’ Please rate us in iTunes and leave a review. Send us your email address to receive the free monthly SLW! eNews. Remember to like us on Facebook. Urge your friends to do the same.
Do your friends a favor. Share our blog and podcast.
Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest. Share your thoughts on our podcast and blogs. Email Feedback AT SimpleLivingWorks DOT org [or SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com or SimpleLivingWorks2@gmail.com], leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 * (847) 690-9410 * archives@elca.org
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away at least 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations – Christmas, birthdays, etc. — to local, national and international causes.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index. To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog several times a week.
PEACE
Posted on: February 12, 2015
Institute for Peace and Justice
My guest on this month’s two SLW! podcast episodes is Susan Vogt. She has long-standing ties with the Institute for Peace and Justice and Parenting for Peace and Justice (IPJ-PPJ), St. Louis. Motto: We educate, so we can know more, care more, and do more. / Facebook
Also, check out the Lutheran Peace Fellowship, Seattle. / Site
I’ve supported the War Resisters League for years. The War Resisters League has been resisting war at home and war abroad since 1923. Today, as one of the leading radical voices in the antiwar movement, WRL challenges military recruitment and war profiteering, organizes nonviolent direct action, and offers on-the-ground tools to end the current war and all wars. / Facebook
Meet an elderly anti-recruitment volunteer I met on one of my speaking tours. (Scroll to Post #66.)
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- Alternative Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14
- Alternative Presidents’ Day, Feb. 16
- Alternative Ash Wed. and Lent, Feb. 18
- Global Divestment Day – Personal and organizational divestment complies with two of the five Life Standards of Living More with Less. Global Divestment Day is actually two days, February 13 and 14. That weekend is a fruitful time for congregations to educate and advocate for divestment. Conveniently, that weekend coincides with Interfaith Power & Light‘s National Preach-In on Global Warming. From Lutherans Restoring Creation – Please share these resources from Green Faith with your faith communities and join the cloud of witnesses on Feb 13/14th.
- Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? is an expanding, free collection of alternative resources for Lent/Holy/Week/Easter. This year it features ten lenten blogs by author, speaker, workshop leader Susan Vogt. Susan is also our interviewee on both episodes of SLW! Podcast this month. Contribute to Whose Risen from the Dead, Anyway? online. | Submission Guidelines || For a gentle daily reminder, follow me on Twitter and Linked-In (see below). The reminders will, appropriately, center around the Alternatives’ resources based on Liturgical Year B (Mark) — reflections, family activities and a daily calendar/journal.
- MORE Free Lent/Easter Alternative Resources
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – February
- Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index
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What’s Coming
- Feb. SLW! Podcast – Author, speaker and blogger Susan Vogt
- March – Blogger, event organizer Joel Zaslofsky. Joel is the Chief Simplifier, Curator, and Founder at Value of Simple. He also hosts the popular Smart and Simple Matters show, SimpleREV Conference and All Things SimpleREV Podcast.
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What’s Happened
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- Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference — With contributions by writers like Annie Leonard, Matthieu Ricard, and Vandana Shiva, SUSTAINABLE HAPPINESS features some of the most insightful and eloquent thinkers YES! has worked with on the meaning, and pursuit, of happiness. What is true happiness if it doesn’t include the happiness of others and the health of a living planet? // “Somehow a working planet, a thriving society, and a satisfying personal life are hitched together—and this fine volume offers powerful clues on the search for those connections!” — Bill McKibben, author and environmental leader // Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference Edited by Sarah van Gelder and the staff of YES! Magazine, Paperback, 168 pages // I’ve added Sustainable Happiness to SLW! Recommends.
- The Great March for Climate Action // David Zahrt was the oldest member of the team that hiked across America — from Los Angeles to D.C. — in eight months, the Great March for Climate Action. Read his Ruminations. David and Lin live in co-housing with his sister and her spouse. They comment on the new Shared Housing Blog of Jubilee-Economics.org, a collaborating organization of SLW! + HomeStay Clubs — Our Preferred Way to
Travel
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
-
What Others Are Doing
- The Common Good Podcast
Episode 56: Carol Watkins on Shared Housing - NEW three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show - Godspace for Lent 2015: Seven Tips for Creating Sacred Space for Lent || 5 Ways to Foster Creativity in Kids During Lent || Get Creative and Play Games in Lent
- The Common Good Podcast
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3).
Episode Index
Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent).
SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments at the bottom of Show Notes, then check ‘Notify me of new posts by email.’ Please rate us in iTunes and leave a review. Send us your email address to receive the free monthly SLW! eNews. Remember to like us on Facebook. Urge your friends to do the same.
Do your friends a favor. Share our blog and podcast.
Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest. Share your thoughts on our podcast and blogs. Email Feedback AT SimpleLivingWorks DOT org [or SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com or SimpleLivingWorks2@gmail.com], leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 * (847) 690-9410 * archives@elca.org
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*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
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Global Divestment Day
Posted on: February 5, 2015
If one thinks that divestment from fossil fuels is too political for simple livers, observe that personal and organizational divestment complies with two of the five Life Standards of Living More with Less, the classic that forms the basis for modern faith-based voluntary simplicity — “Do Justice!” and “Cherich the Natural Order.”
Global Divestment Day is actually two days, February 13 and 14. That weekend is a fruitful time for congregations to educate and advocate for divestment. Conveniently, that weekend coincides with Interfaith Power & Light‘s National Preach-In on Global Warming. I strongly encourage you to bring divestment and the net-zero vision to your congregation that weekend.
From Lutherans Restoring Creation
What does your faith tell you about the concept of Fossil Fuel Divestment? Please share these resources from Green Faith with your faith communities and join the cloud of witnesses on Feb 13/14th.
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- Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? is an expanding, free collection of alternative resources for Lent/Holy/Week/Easter. This year it features ten lenten blogs by author, speaker, workshop leader Susan Vogt. Susan is also our interviewee on both episodes of SLW! Podcast this month. Get to know her in Part One. Part Two, released Feb. 15, focuses on alternative Lenten practices. Contribute to Whose Risen from the Dead, Anyway? online. | Submission Guidelines || For a gentle daily reminder, follow me on Twitter and Linked-In. The reminders will, appropriately, center around the Alternatives’ resources based on Liturgical Year B (Mark) — reflections, family activities and a daily calendar/journal. Guide Choices
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- Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference — With contributions by writers like Annie Leonard, Matthieu Ricard, and Vandana Shiva, SUSTAINABLE HAPPINESS features some of the most insightful and eloquent thinkers YES! has worked with on the meaning, and pursuit, of happiness. What is true happiness if it doesn’t include the happiness of others and the health of a living planet? // “Somehow a working planet, a thriving society, and a satisfying personal life are hitched together—and this fine volume offers powerful clues on the search for those connections!” — Bill McKibben, author and environmental leader // Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference Edited by Sarah van Gelder and the staff of YES! Magazine, Paperback, 168 pages // I’ve added Sustainable Happiness to SLW! Recommends.
- The Great March for Climate Action // David Zahrt was the oldest member of the team that hiked across America — from Los Angeles to D.C. — in eight months, the Great March for Climate Action. Read his Ruminations. David and Lin live in co-housing with his sister and her spouse. They comment on the new Shared Housing Blog of Jubilee-Economics.org, a collaborating organization of SLW!
- Home-Stay Clubs — Our Preferred Way to
Travel - Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – February
- Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index
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What’s Coming
- Feb. SLW! Podcast – Author, speaker and blogger Susan Vogt
- March – Blogger, event organizer Joel Zaslofsky. Joel is the Chief Simplifier, Curator, and Founder at Value of Simple. He also hosts the popular Smart and Simple Matters show, SimpleREV Conference and All Things SimpleREV Podcast.
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What’s Happened
- SLW! Podcast Episodes #36-37 — Duane Elgin // Duane on SLW! Voluntary Simplicity: Lifestyle of the Future? // His professional website: GreatTransitionStories.org // His personal site: DuaneElgin.com // His writings there on Sustainability and Simplicity || Champion of Simple Living Today
- Highlights of SLW! 2014 Annual Report // Interviews of Champions of Simple Living Today will intensify in 2015. New Services include ‘SLW! Recommends’ Literacy Service and Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites.
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
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- The Common Good Podcast
Episode 56: Carol Watkins on Shared Housing - NEW three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show - Godspace for Lent 2015: Seven Tips for Creating Sacred Space for Lent || 5 Ways to Foster Creativity in Kids During Lent || Get Creative and Play Games in Lent
- The Common Good Podcast
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Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 * (847) 690-9410 * archives@elca.org
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away at least 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations – Christmas, birthdays, etc. — to local, national and international causes.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index. To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog several times a week.
Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? is an expanding, free collection of alternative resources for Lent/Holy/Week/Easter. (It gets its name, of course, from Alternatives’ best known annual resource for Advent/Christmas/Epiphany “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?”)
This year it features ten lenten blogs by author, speaker, workshop leader Susan Vogt. Susan is also our interviewee on both episodes of SLW! Podcast this month. Get to know her in Part One. Part Two, released Feb. 15, focuses on alternative Lenten practices.
Contribute to Whose Risen from the Dead, Anyway? online. | Submission Guidelines
Part of my own lenten discipline this year is to be intentional about highlighting resources from “Who’s Risen?” on a daily basis through social media. If you’d like a gentle reminder, follow me on Twitter and Linked-In. The reminders will, appropriately, center around the Alternatives’ resources based on Liturgical Year B (Mark) — reflections, family activities and a daily calendar/journal.
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MORE Free Lent/Easter Alternative Resources
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- The Great March for Climate Action // David Zahrt was the oldest member of the team that hiked across America — from Los Angeles to D.C. — in eight months, the Great March for Climate Action. Read his Ruminations. David and Lin live in co-housing with his sister and her spouse. They comment on the new Shared Housing Blog of Jubilee-Economics.org, a collaborating organization of SLW! One of the leaders for the march was Ed Fallon, a progressive radio talk show host of The Fallon Forum and seven-term member of the Iowa Legislature. Another Iowan worth knowing is State Senator Rob Hogg, leader of Iowa Climate Advocates and author of America’s Climate Century. Hear my interview with him. Read his monthly climate actions.
- Home-Stay Clubs — Our Preferred Way to
Travel We get our own room, usually a private bath and a lovely breakfast for $20. The real beauty of home-stay clubs is that we meet some terrific folks and have several hours of stimulating conversation. For us this arrangement embodies one of the Life Standards of Living More with Less — “Nurture People.” Mennonite Your Way || Evergreen || Affordable Travel Club || Home stays are so much more than a bargain! - Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – February
- Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index
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What’s Coming
- Feb. SLW! Podcast – Author, speaker and blogger Susan Vogt
- March – Blogger, event organizer Joel Zaslofsky. Joel is the Chief Simplifier, Curator, and Founder at Value of Simple. He also hosts the popular Smart and Simple Matters show, SimpleREV Conference and All Things SimpleREV Podcast.
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What’s Happened
- SLW! Podcast Episodes #36-37 — Duane Elgin // Duane on SLW! Voluntary Simplicity: Lifestyle of the Future? // His professional website: GreatTransitionStories.org // His personal site: DuaneElgin.com: About • Speaking • Great Transition Stories • Articles • Blog • Videos • Audio Files • Books • Contact // His writings there on Sustainability and Simplicity || Champion of Simple Living Today
- Highlights of SLW! 2014 Annual Report // Interviews of Champions of Simple Living Today will intensify in 2015. New Services include ‘SLW! Recommends’ Literacy Service and Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites.
- Authentic Happiness in a Consumer Culture by Annie Leonard, Founder of The Story of Stuff Project, now Executive Director of GreenPeaceUSA, and Sarah van Gelder, Editor of YES! Magazine. Explore the meaning of real happiness rather than the empty happiness produced by a consumer culture that devalues interpersonal relationships in favor of “stuff” and leaves the Earth broken and full of trash. Media and Consumer Capitalism: Justin Lewis’ podcast, book and DVD
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions: THANKS to Duane Elgin for putting me onto some of the above. Don’t miss my recent podcast interview with Duane.
- Having an Epiphany for New Years — Epiphany season: Jan. 6 till the beginning of Lent on Ash Wed., Feb. 18 this year || New Year New Daily Inspiration Calendar
- NEXT Fall Festival Resources: Fall Plans blog
- Send a Message! Be the Message! | Free stickers and fliers to use at Christmas or year ’round through the mail and email. Also, read Seeds of Influence, part 1 | part 2.
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
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- The Common Good Podcast
Episode 56: Carol Watkins on Shared Housing - NEW three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show
- The Common Good Podcast
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Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 * (847) 690-9410 * archives@elca.org
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away at least 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations – Christmas, birthdays, etc. — to local, national and international causes.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index. To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog several times a week.
