Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
Posted on: January 16, 2017
SLW! Podcast Guest–Renowned Biblical Scholar Walter Brueggemann
Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
Jan. 15, 2017
In This Issue:
- Simple Living Sanity //
- SLW! Podcast #84-85 –Walter Brueggemann on Money & Possessions //
- Worth Revisiting: Taxing Negatives //
- Our Simpler Living Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for JAN. //
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
- Simple Living Sanity: Although much of American culture already stands in opposition to a simpler lifestyle, the prospects of the new national administration and the predominance of regressive state administrations promise to put any progress on the Five Life Standards into reverse. We offer Sanity Suggestions. READ MORE
- SLW! Podcast #84-85 —Renowned Biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann on Money & Possessions // His book’s Preface, Foreword, Introduction (free online) — essential reading!
- Our Daily Simpler Living Nudge
- What Is The NUDGE? / How It Works / How to GET It – Subscribe by sending NUDGE to SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com. / How to SHARE It / More About Holidays
- January: Life Principles of Voluntary Simplicity — Week 1: Do Justice || Week 2: Learn from the World Community || Week 3:Nurture People || Week 4: Non-conform Freely
- New Simpler Formats for 2017 — The monthly SLW! eNews and Weekly Digest will feature only the latest posts from colleague organizations. The complete Monthly Digest only on the SLW! site will be updated at least once a week. The Weekly Nudge will feature only offering from SLW! Both the Weekly Digest and Weekly Nudge come as part of your free subscription to SLW! Blog. The Daily Nudge comes by email (send NUDGE to SimpleLivingworks@yahoo.com) or by Twitter @GeraldIversen. Choose the options that work for you.
- SLW! Blog Index | SLW! Podcast Index
- 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 – JAN.
- 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
- Early 2017 SLW! Podcast guests: Hazel Henderson, founder, Ethical Markets Media, and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series, also author and syndicated columnist; Cecile Andrews, author and community organizer; John Affluenza deGraaf, documentary film maker, author and speaker; and Nancy Pearlman, producer of EcoNews.
What Others Are Doing – So Much Help! – Latest Posts
I gladly 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. COMPLETE LIST
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Center for a New American Dream
- The Common Good Podcast – Check out the new site.
- Ep. 79: Candace Vanderhof on Water Conservation/Reclamation
- NEW — Earth Island Journal (Earth Island Institute): Latest News // Current Issue
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast #18 // SLW! Podcast #66
- Rejecting Party Spirit (1/13)
- Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo — Check out the new site.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways
- The Minimalists podcast (Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus). Getting us past the things so we can make room for life’s most important things — which actually aren’t things at all.
- The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham) // SLW! Podcast
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)–Time, Finances, Home-Work, Health
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Smart and Simple Matters podcast (Joel Zaslofsky of Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent) // SLW! Podcast
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Jan.-April
What’s Happened
- Post-Election Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Survival Guide
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media
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