Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
Posted on: September 9, 2017
Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
Sept. 8, 2017
In This Issue:
- SLW! Podcast #100–Relevance of the Reformation Today: Bishop Guy Erwin (9/1) //
- NEW – Simpler Living HEALTH: New Suggestion in each Weekly Nudge //
- Our Simpler Living Daily Nudge // SEPTEMBER (media) //
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help – Latest Posts!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
- SLW! Podcast #100–Relevance of Reformation 500 Today: Reformation History Scholar ELCA Bishop Guy Erwin (9/1) //
- SLW! Podcast #99 — Order of Lutheran Franciscans: Voluntary Simplicity in the 500th year of the Reformation (8/15)
- NEW – Simpler Living Healthy Political Practices & Spiritual Disciplines. New Suggestion in each Weekly Nudge
- 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
- August: (Personal Choices, Happiness, Fulfillment)
- September: Non-conform Freely // Week 1: Media Literacy || Week 2: Advertising & Public Relations || Week 3: Alternatives to TV, Video Games, Movies, Gambling || Week 4: Marketing
- 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 Daily Calendar – SEPTEMBER
- 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 Ep. 101–Paul K. Chappell of The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation on Why World Peace Is Possible. For a preview read my Jubilee OneEarth blog.
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 — Monthly Digest
Especially Noteworthy — On KunstlerCast #294, James Howard Kunstler talks with Richard Heinberg of the PostCarbon Institute about his manifesto piece, There’s No App for That.
- Alternative Radio Podcast (David Barsamian)
- Toward an Ecological Civilization (David Korten)
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Center for a New American Dream
- The Common Good Podcast
- Ep. 87: Enrique Morones:Advocate for Migrants, Immigrants, and Keeping Borders Humane
- Ep. 86: Walter Brueggemann on the Primal Power of Money & Possessions, part 2 (8/1) [Back-Up]
- Earth Island Journal (Earth Island Institute): Latest News // Current Issue
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) New Song Made for These Times for “Ladies Sewing and Resistance Society” counters the anti-woman, bullying, hate filled policies of the new administration. Lead sheet with melody line, full lyrics, video (1 minute) of singing and sewing, video (6 minute) including wonderful short interviews — all at Monthly Digest (above).
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast #18 // SLW! Podcast #66
- Is This the One? (9/8)
- Flooded Cities – Here and There, Now and Then (9/1)
- Parts per Trillion (8/25)
- Prayer for Times of Turmoil (8/18)
- Accepting North Korea (8/11)
- Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways
- Letting Go of Health – Life interrupted: 9 lessons from a fall
- Letting Go of Anger – There can be such a thing as “holy anger” as long as we don’t wallow in it. Let go of the anger against the person and let your outrage with evil move you to ACT for the common good.
- Letting Go of Mistakes – Forgiving oneself and others
- Letting Go of the Familiar – Finding the balance between comfort with the familiar and growing into something new. Sometimes it’s not a choice..
- Letting Go of Control – Do you need more self-discipline or less micro-managing your own life and other’s. 3 things you cannot control & 3 things you can.
- Letting Go of Being Right – Is being right being smart or being smug? Ways to share your beliefs without being obnoxious and ignored.
- 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.
- Northwest Earth Institute // SLW! Podcast
- The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham) // SLW! Podcast //
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
- Prayer & Politiks (Ken Sehested): At the intersection of spiritual formation and prophetic action
- Signs of the Times: News, views, notes, and quotes
- 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 SLW! Monthly Digest.
- Non-Conform-Freely Celebrations: May-Aug.
What’s Happened
- SLW! Ep. 98 [8/1]–Vicki Robin, co-author of the classic Your Money Or Your Life, which has an updated edition schedule by March, 2018; founder of the Simplicity Forum.
- SLW! Podcast #96, part 1 // #97, part 2 — Shane Claiborne of TheSimpleWay.org and RedLetterChristians.org, author of the classic Irresistible Revolution and the new Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It’s Killing Us
- Simpler Living SANITY & SURVIVAL
- Banishing Fake News. READ MORE // See more Media Literacy resources.
- We’ve cancelled our vacation to Alaska and plan to see the fall colors in Vermont instead. More information about “I Buy Blue. Won’t You Too?“
- Post-Election Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Survival Guide
- Review of Lee Van Ham’s new “From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable,” vol. 2 of the “Eden for the 21st Century” Trilogy. Colleague Lee’s new book is now available on Amazon in print and ebook and other locations where you can get the ebook (Nook, iBooks, Kobo).
- 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.
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media
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