Simple Living Works! eNews
Posted on: March 31, 2016
Simple Living Works! eNews
#55 – April, 2016
In This Issue:
- Latest SLW! Podcast: Peter Sawtell, Eco-Justice Ministries //
- Live Like You Give a Damn! – Tom Sine’s newest book //
- Des Moines Catholic Worker Receives Bishop Dingman Peace Award //
- Worth Revisiting – Waging Peace at Tax Time //
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
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What’s NOW with SLW!
- Live Like You Give a Damn! Join the Changemaking Celebration! Get Tom Sine’s new book at 40% discount only until April 16! (also, text and video testimonials). Videos: The Future of the Church (27 min.); Tom Sine Interviews Mark Scandrette, author of FREE: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most (15 min.); An Invitation to Join the Changemaking Celebration (2:33); The Future of the Church (1:42)
- Tom earned his Ph.D. at the University of Washington. He has worked as an urban social worker, headed up a community empowerment project in Haiti for World Concern, taught at the University of Washington, and at Fuller Theological Seminary in Seattle. Tom and Christine are enjoying collaborating with The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology in preparing a new generation of changemakers to serve God in times like these. He also serves as a volunteer in a community empowerment initiative called Lake City Future First – LCFF
- Tom’s writings for Alternatives: Reflections for Advent and Christmas
- SLW! Podcast #65: Ken Sehested, founding exec. dir. Baptist Peace Fellowship; co-pastor of Circle of Mercy, a peace church; author/editor of “Peace Primer II,” “In the Land of the Living” and “In the Land of the Willing”; blogger at “Prayer & Politiks and Signs of the Times: At the intersection of spiritual formation and prophetic action” // Ken’s ThanksGivingThanks resources resurface!
- SLW! Podcast #64: Activist Frank Cordaro, internet activist, protester of war and militarism // UPDATE: Des Moines Catholic Worker wins Bishop Dingman Peace Award
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SLW! Blog Index | SLW! Podcast Index
- Worth Revisiting
- SUBSCRIBE to SLW! Podcast for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. Subscribe to SLW! Blog. Click “+Follow” at lower right of blog post, enter a name and email address. Welcome!
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – APRIL
- 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 Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
I’m glad to pass along links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others. Some faith-based, some not. You needn’t read them all. Choose FIVE links — including SLW! — to investigate.
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit
- A Year of Buying Nothing New: Mom and simple living expert Julie Fathy
- Going Plastic-free, Faithfully: Retired pediatrician Carol Janus found renewed purpose in helping others when she partnered with the faith-based community—and beyond—to raise awareness about plastic pollution in her community.
- NEW – How to Start Your Own Toy Library (recorded webinar)
- The Common Good Podcast
- Episode 70: William Ostrander:: I Want to Reverse Climate Change by How I Farm. Why Am I Also Running for U.S. Congress?
- Episode 69: Anne Marie Tipton: The Movement to Divest from Fossil Fuels Is Growing Rapidly (3/1)
- Episode 68: Convergence of OneEarth Living and Voluntary Simplicity (2/1)
- Episode 67: Raising Up the Common Good & Living More Simply—Two Components in Earth-Size Living (1/1)
- NEW–Community Solutions: Founded in 1940, this non-profit organization advocates for small communities and the benefits of face-to-face relationships. Since 2003, the focus has been to provide resources for low-carbon living and to inspire collective, cooperative solutions in the face of peak energy and climate change.
- Creation Justice: CAPSULES – News and Opportunities for Christians Doing Creation Justice
- NEW–E-The Environmental Magazine
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) – Website, Songbooks, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumbdrive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings // SLW! Podcast
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast
- Celebrating Fools (4/1)
- Good Friday Choices (3/25)
- Wisdom to Know the Difference (3/18)
- 3 Month Check-Up (3/11)
- Pearls Before Swine (3/4)
- Broken Hearts of Grief (2/26)
- Climate Fear and Anxiety (2/19)
- GodSpace (Christine Sine) // SLW! Podcast
- The Homesteading Guide Daily: Homesteading adventurer exploring life off the grid. Inviting you to share my journey and the friends I meet as we help you with your homesteading endeavors.
- Jubilee Economics (Lee Van Ham, Dan Swanson, Gerald Iversen)
- An Eye-Opening Adventure (Mariana Velez, 3/12, English and Spanish)
- Does the Bible Say Little about Jubilee or Lots? (2/3)
- Aspirations of Indigenous Peoples and Jubilee (2/3)
- Positive Signs from Central Coast Calif. (1/31)
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways – Finding good homes for no longer needed items rather than just putting them in the trash // TMI-Too Much Information // SLW! Podcast // SLW! Podcast: Lent
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1. SPENDING MONEY:
- Inheriting & Investing Money 3 guidelines
- Generosity & Prudence
- Gift Giving criteria
- Shopping and Silly Socks
2. CHOOSING WHAT TO GIVE AWAY:- The Beauty of Empty
- Emptying Our Closet + negotiating with others
- Too Many Cookbooks – Parting with books.
- Lazy? YES, But Done? YES – Don’t let finding the perfect place to give your stuff, keep you from doing anything.
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- Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- The Minimalists podcast (Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus). Minimalism is the thing that gets us past the things so we can make room for life’s most important things — which actually aren’t things at all.
- 015: Consumerism (3/31)
- 014: Joshua (3/25)
- 013: Career (3/17)
- 012: Money (3/10)
- 011: Sentimental (3/3)
- 000: Who are The Minimalists? (12/20)
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- NorthWest Earth Institute‘s newest discussion course ebook, Coming Soon – Sustainability Works: Rethinking Business As Usual // Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions // SLW! Podcast
- The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham)
- Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
- Conversation about The OneEarth Project and Lee’s book,
Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us - The Common Good Podcast, episode 42
- Lee’s Slide Show
- The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese) // SLW! Podcast
- CatholicCreationCare.com – General resources
- CreationCareKids.com – Children’s resources
- Easter Resources for Families
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough
- NEW–Marketing 101 for the Postconsumer: Knowledge is power, and once you understand how marketers are manipulating you, then you can make informed decisions about how you control your consumerism.
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Updated Postconsumers Glossary: From serious definitions to inspiring Postconsumers core values and even a few playful throw-aways.
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Control Addictive Consumerism: Interactive Web Course
- The Disposable Nature of Addictive Consumerism
- The Difference Between Anti-Consumerism and Postconsumerism
- The Good, Bad and Ugly of Emerging Markets
- You Are Not Where You Shop
- Tips for Raising PostConsumer Children: Grade School // Middle School // High School // College
- Simple Enough (Bob Sitze) // SLW! Podcast
- “Mindless Exultation? (3/26)
- “Time for Hard Choices?” (3/25)
- “Hats” (3/22)
- “Hysteria” (3/19)
- “Simple Congregations: Writing Together with Spirit” (3/13)
- “Simple Congregations: Between Now and Then” (3/10)
- “Simple Congregations: Disaster Preparedness” (3/7)
- “Hands Up!” (3/4)
- “Simplicity’s Children: Historical Love Letters” (3/1)
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)–Time, Finances, Home-Work, Health
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Simplicity Collective – Let us be pioneers once more (Samuel Alexander)
- Simplicity Parenting (Kim John Payne): because it is a beautiful world
- Smart and Simple Matters podcast (Joel Zaslofsky of Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent) // SLW! Podcast
- Being Happily Replaceable, Spreadsheet Poets, and Fertility Challenges (Emily McDermott)–Ep.96
- The 5 Elements of Your Full Voice and Saying Yes to Our Biggest Fears (Barbara McAfee)–Ep.95
- Why Deleting 90.44% of My Best Music Made Me Feel Super–Ep.94
- Slow Food, Social Obesity, and Why Nobody Wins a Parenting Race (Carl Honore)–Ep.92
- NEW – TreeHugger: Finding a Greener Future
- Various Publications
- Unclutter Your Congregation: Starting Fresh, The Lutheran, Jan., pp. 16-22
- Cutting Clutter with Compassion, Utne Reader
- Time to Stop Worshipping Economic Growth, Daly News (CASSE)
- Enoughness Instead of Never Enough (2/19) Center for Action and Contemplation (Richard Rohr)
- Social Innovation Solutions: Voluntary Simplicity (Dr. Thomas Jefferson Hoban, IV)
- Pirate Television: Kima Cargill: The Psychology of Overeating (11/15/15)
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Jan.-April
What’s Happened
- The Lutheran Magazine Blogger Pays Tribute to SLW!
- SLW! Podcast #63: Lee Van Ham, Convergence of OneEarth Living and Voluntary Simplicity
- SLW! Podcast #62: Tim Kasser, psychology professor and author of The High Price of Materialism; Champion of Simple Living
- Paso Peace Circle–I spoke recently at the Paso Robles, CA, Peace Circle. It was formed about a year ago by a WW II U.S. bomber pilot — now turning 99 — and by a survivor of the Allied bombing of Dresden at the end of WW II — then age five. Dick and Hart have become fast friends and meet every week. The larger circle meets once a month to pursue inner peace and then to promote peace resolutely in the wider community. See their pics and read my notes of the meeting at my travel journal Post #297.
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
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