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Simple Living Works! Weekly
Posted November 24, 2015
on:Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
Nov. 24, 2015
In This Issue:
- Worth Revisiting
- WHOSE Birthday? Podcast series
- New SLW! Blog Index
- WHOSE Birthday Is It, Anyway? #27
- Advent Conspiracy – interview with Ken Weigel
- Wisdom from Author David Shi on Simple Living
- Do-It-Yourself “Whose Birthday?”
- Free Fall Festival Resources
- What Others Are Doing – So much help!
- More!
New SLW! Blog Index
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Worth Revisiting
How We Celebrate Says a Lot About How We Live: Observations on Thanksgiving
from Whose Birthday? #21 —
Reflection: ‘RULES’ for Buying (Lynn A. Miller)
Activities:The Best Gift I Didn’t Get (Sandi Baete)
Parties with a Purpose (Sandi Baete)
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SLW! Podcast #57
A legacy ‘Whose Birthday?’ is a three-part SLW! podcast series released Nov. 15, Dec. 1 and Dec. 15. It features well-known preacher and national leader Louis Lotz, author Meg Cox and others. It can also be used as text or audio. It’s calendar and readings match this Advent’s lectionary cycle (C, Luke).
Encourage others to listen. Use this article in your newsletter/web site.
Each episode is released about two weeks in advance so that you can plan how to use the calendar, reflections and activities with others at the appropriate time. Nov. 15 episode includes Advent 1 and 2; Dec. 1, Advent 3 and 4; Dec. 15, Christmas and Epiphany. (Complete previews of all three episodes are also available now.)
* * *
WHOSE Birthday? #27
“Xmas Gift Equation” and “Priceless Gifts” by Susan Vogt
“Saving Forgetful Old St. Nick’ and “O Holy Night at the Clothes Closet” by Melodie Davis
“Advent Devotions” by Bob Sitze
“Putting Herod Back Into Christmas” by Joy Carroll Wallis
The classic Advent/Christmas resource “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” is available in multiple formats in 2015 to meet your personal, family and community needs.
“Whose Birthday?” #27 is a new, free online collection. You’re welcome to contribute to our most widely-read resource. All past editions are still available on the SLW! site. The articles are carefully indexed. The current edition will be updated as new material arrives, so send ideas and items anytime. Prepare something now while it’s really on your mind. Submission Guidelines
Yes, YOU can have our own customized, DIY Whose Birthday? Click here for tips to CREATE, PRODUCE, DISTRIBUTE and PROMOTE your do-it-yourself version.
Make it provocative, humorous, serious or a combination, in your way to advance SLW! mission: “equipping people of faith to challenge consumerism, live justly and celebrate responsibly.”
A legacy “Whose Birthday?” is being release as a multi-part SLW! podcast series in Nov. 15, Dec. 1, Dec. 15. It can also be used as text or audio. It’s calendar matches the lectionary cycle (C).
Read past editions in the archives.
What’s NOW with SLW!
-
SLW! Podcast Episode #56: Ken Weigel, Director of Advent Conspiracy
Since 2006 Advent Conspiracy has become a global movement of people and churches resisting the cultural Christmas narrative of consumption by choosing a revolutionary Christmas. In this episode, Ken illuminates each of four tenets:
- Spending Less,
- Giving More
- Loving All
- Worshipping Fully
Because of people who have entered into the conspiracy, millions of dollars have been given to provide clean water solutions around the world.
FREE Church Resources: Children’s Curriculum, audio, video, more // Advent Conspiracy FAQ’s // 2015 video on YouTube, 3:09
- FALL FESTIVAL RESOURCES (free online)
- 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 — NOVEMBER // DECEMBER
- 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: WHOSE Birthday? parts 2, 3 (Dec. 1, Dec. 31)
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)
- But What Do You Want to be Thanked For? (11/23)
- Inspiring Simplicity Reads. (11/21)
- 5 Tips for a More Intentional Holiday Season (11/16)
- Inspiring Simplicity Reads. (11/6)
- The Hope Effect: Changing How the World Cares for Orphans (11/1)
- A New, Minimalist Economy (10/26)
- Inspiring Simplicity. Weekend Reads. (10/24)
- Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit
- The Common Good Podcast
- Episode 65 :: Mel Lions: Why Food Choices Are Our Best Portal to Making Differences Ecologically (11/1)
- Episode 64 :: Paul Canavese: Why Pope Francis’ Encyclical and Visit Matter (10/1)
- NEW – Creation Justice: CAPSULES– News and Opportunities for Christians Doing Creation Justice, Fall 2015
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) — Website, Songbooks, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumbdrive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings — all NEW
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive
- Paris (11/20)
- Bus Boycott and Pipeline Protest (11/13)
- Balancing Abundance and Need (11/6)
- Thou Shalt Not Exploit (10/30)
- We Have Defaulted (10/23)
- Destruction and Transformation (10/16)
- A US Dialogue with the Pope (9/25)
- GodSpace (Christine Sine)
-
My Favourite Books on Gratitude (11/26)
- How Then Are We to Respond (11/17)
-
Preparing for a Blue Christmas – New Ideas for 2015 (11/16)
-
- 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.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways // TMI-Too Much Information
- Generosity vs. Prudence
-
Finding good homes for no longer needed items rather than just putting them in the trash.
- Finding Good Homes #2 – These are the miscellaneous items that have been gathering dust while I focused on Too Much Information over the summer.
- Finding Good Homes #3 – Weird things like carpet squares, trinkets, and not-so-weird things like towels
- Good Homes Are Hard To Find #4 – Things like mattresses and trophies are a challenge, plus the old stand by of “Leave it by the curb the day before garbage pick-up and hope someone “steals” it.
- Homes for Inherited Stuff #5 – What to do with stuff that carries emotional attachments or is too upscale for Goodwill.
- Pros & Cons of Recycling – When recycling is not enough.
For those who like to be current, you could also check out Inheriting & Investing Money that I just posted today.. - Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- New Celebrations (Clyde Griffith)
- NorthWest Earth Institute‘s newest discussion course ebook, Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions
- 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 new Slide Show
- The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese)
- CatholicCreationCare.com – General resources
- CreationCareKids.com – Children’s resources
- Advent/Christmas resources for families, some incorporating Alternatives.
- Easter resources for families
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough
- The Hidden Consumerism of Crafting (10/30)
- 37 Marketing Traps to Look Out For This Holiday Season
- Tips for Raising PostConsumer Children: Grade School // Middle School // High School // College
- Simple Enough (Bob Sitze)
- “Simple Things: Rope” (11/23)
- “Simple Words: Intimacy (11/20)
- “Simplicity’s Children: Best Friends Forever” (11/17)
- “The Law of Unintended Drones” (11/14)
- “Mortal thanks” (11/11)
- “More Magic Thoughts” (11/8)
- Mother Carey’s Chickens” (11/5)
- “Simple congregations: Longevity” (11/2)
- “No (Reformation) Choice” (10/30)
- “Simplicity’s Children: Shared Hobbies” (10/27)
- “Simple Things: Flowers” (10/24)
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Latest edition
- 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)
- How to Grow Food Anywhere and Build Community Everywhere with Eugene Cooke, Ep. 83 (9/21)
- 5 Strategic Steps to Streamline Your Life with Miriam Ortiz y Pino, Ep. 82 (9/7)
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
Upcoming Alternate Celebrations
What’s Happened
- SLW! Podcast Ep. 55: David E. Shi, educator, speaker, consultant, author of the classic “The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture” Complete Preview
- SLW! Podcast #54: Paul Canavese on Pope Francis — How to Keep His Momentum Building
- SLW! Podcast #53: World Community Cookbooks UPDATED
- SLW! Podcast #52: Kristina’s “Alternative” Ph.D. Dissertation + Plus links to other fascinating historical “Alternative” documents and photos.
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
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). Complete 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 SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.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-A0864
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.
Simple Living Works! Weekly
Posted November 19, 2015
on:Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
Nov. 18, 2015
In This Issue:
- WHOSE Birthday? Podcast series
- New SLW! Blog Index
- WHOSE Birthday Is It, Anyway? #27
- Advent Conspiracy – interview with Ken Weigel
- Wisdom from Author David Shi on Simple Living
- Do-It-Yourself “Whose Birthday?”
- Free Fall Festival Resources
- What Others Are Doing – So much help!
- More!
New SLW! Blog Index
* * *
SLW! Podcast #57
A legacy ‘Whose Birthday?’ is a three-part SLW! podcast series released Nov. 15, Dec. 1 and Dec. 15. It features well-known preacher and national leader Louis Lotz, author Meg Cox and others. It can also be used as text or audio. It’s calendar and readings match this Advent’s lectionary cycle (C, Luke).
Encourage others to listen. Use this article in your newsletter/web site.
Each episode is released about two weeks in advance so that you can plan how to use the calendar, reflections and activities with others at the appropriate time. Nov. 15 episode includes Advent 1 and 2; Dec. 1, Advent 3 and 4; Dec. 15, Christmas and Epiphany. (Complete previews of all three episodes are also available now.)
* * *
* * *
WHOSE Birthday? #27
“Xmas Gift Equation” and “Priceless Gifts” by Susan Vogt
“Saving Forgetful Old St. Nick’ and “O Holy Night at the Clothes Closet” by Melodie Davis
“Advent Devotions” by Bob Sitze
“Putting Herod Back Into Christmas” by Joy Carroll Wallis
The classic Advent/Christmas resource “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” is available in multiple formats in 2015 to meet your personal, family and community needs.
“Whose Birthday?” #27 is a new, free online collection. You’re welcome to contribute to our most widely-read resource. All past editions are still available on the SLW! site. The articles are carefully indexed. The current edition will be updated as new material arrives, so send ideas and items anytime. Prepare something now while it’s really on your mind. Submission Guidelines
Yes, YOU can have our own customized, DIY Whose Birthday? Click here for tips to CREATE, PRODUCE, DISTRIBUTE and PROMOTE your do-it-yourself version.
Make it provocative, humorous, serious or a combination, in your way to advance SLW! mission: “equipping people of faith to challenge consumerism, live justly and celebrate responsibly.”
A legacy “Whose Birthday?” is being release as a multi-part SLW! podcast series in Nov. 15, Dec. 1, Dec. 15. It can also be used as text or audio. It’s calendar matches the lectionary cycle (C).
Read past editions in the archives.
What’s NOW with SLW!
-
SLW! Podcast Episode #56: Ken Weigel, Director of Advent Conspiracy
Since 2006 Advent Conspiracy has become a global movement of people and churches resisting the cultural Christmas narrative of consumption by choosing a revolutionary Christmas. In this episode, Ken illuminates each of four tenets:
- Spending Less,
- Giving More
- Loving All
- Worshipping Fully
Because of people who have entered into the conspiracy, millions of dollars have been given to provide clean water solutions around the world.
FREE Church Resources: Children’s Curriculum, audio, video, more // Advent Conspiracy FAQ’s // 2015 video on YouTube, 3:09
- SLW! Podcast Ep. 55: David E. Shi, educator, speaker, consultant, author of the classic “The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture” Complete Preview
- SLW! Podcast #54: Paul Canavese on Pope Francis — How to Keep His Momentum Building
- FALL FESTIVAL RESOURCES (free online)
- 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 — NOVEMBER // DECEMBER
- 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: WHOSE Birthday? parts 2, 3 (Dec. 1, Dec. 31)
-
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
- The Common Good Podcast
- Episode 65 :: Mel Lions: Why Food Choices Are Our Best Portal to Making Differences Ecologically (11/1)
- Episode 64 :: Paul Canavese: Why Pope Francis’ Encyclical and Visit Matter (10/1)
- NEW – Creation Justice: CAPSULES– News and Opportunities for Christians Doing Creation Justice, Fall 2015
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) — Website, Songbooks, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumbdrive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings — all NEW
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive
- Bus Boycott and Pipeline Protest (11/13)
- Balancing Abundance and Need (11/6)
- Thou Shalt Not Exploit (10/30)
- We Have Defaulted (10/23)
- Destruction and Transformation (10/16)
- A US Dialogue with the Pope (9/25)
- GodSpace (Christine Sine)
- 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.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways // TMI-Too Much Information
- Generosity vs. Prudence
-
Finding good homes for no longer needed items rather than just putting them in the trash.
- Finding Good Homes #2 – These are the miscellaneous items that have been gathering dust while I focused on Too Much Information over the summer.
- Finding Good Homes #3 – Weird things like carpet squares, trinkets, and not-so-weird things like towels
- Good Homes Are Hard To Find #4 – Things like mattresses and trophies are a challenge, plus the old stand by of “Leave it by the curb the day before garbage pick-up and hope someone “steals” it.
- Homes for Inherited Stuff #5 – What to do with stuff that carries emotional attachments or is too upscale for Goodwill.
- Pros & Cons of Recycling – When recycling is not enough.
For those who like to be current, you could also check out Inheriting & Investing Money that I just posted today.. - Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- New Celebrations (Clyde Griffith)
- NorthWest Earth Institute‘s newest discussion course ebook, Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions
- 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 new Slide Show
- The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese)
- CatholicCreationCare.com – General resources
- CreationCareKids.com – Children’s resources
- Advent/Christmas resources for families, some incorporating Alternatives.
- Easter resources for families
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough
- The Hidden Consumerism of Crafting (10/30)
- 37 Marketing Traps to Look Out For This Holiday Season
- Tips for Raising PostConsumer Children: Grade School // Middle School // High School // College
- Simple Enough (Bob Sitze)
- “Simplicity’s Children: Best Friends Forever” (11/17)
- “The Law of Unintended Drones” (11/14)
- “Mortal thanks” (11/11)
- “More Magic Thoughts” (11/8)
- Mother Carey’s Chickens” (11/5)
- “Simple congregations: Longevity” (11/2)
- “No (Reformation) Choice” (10/30)
- “Simplicity’s Children: Shared Hobbies” (10/27)
- “Simple Things: Flowers” (10/24)
- “Filling in the Holes in Your Brain” (10/21)
- “Solving Global Warming” (10/18)
- “Magical Living” (10/15)
- “Lifestyle Exemplars” (10/12)
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Latest edition
- 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)
- How to Grow Food Anywhere and Build Community Everywhere with Eugene Cooke, Ep. 83 (9/21)
- 5 Strategic Steps to Streamline Your Life with Miriam Ortiz y Pino, Ep. 82 (9/7)
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
Upcoming Alternate Celebrations
-
What’s Happened
- SLW! Podcast #53: World Community Cookbooks UPDATED
- SLW! Podcast #52: Kristina’s “Alternative” Ph.D. Dissertation + Plus links to other fascinating historical “Alternative” documents and photos.
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
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). Complete 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 SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.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-A0602
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.
Simple Living Works! Weekly
Posted November 9, 2015
on:Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
Nov. 9, 2015
In This Issue:
- New SLW! Blog Index
- Worth Revisiting: WHOSE Birthday? by Richard Rohr, Tony Campolo and Meg Cox
- Advent Conspiracy – interview with Ken Weigel
- WHOSE Birthday Is It, Anyway? #27
- Wisdom from Author David Shi on Simple Living
- Do-It-Yourself “Whose Birthday?”
- Free Fall Festival Resources
- What Others Are Doing – So much help!
- More!
New SLW! Blog Index
* * *
Worth Revisiting – WHOSE Birthday? #22
Reflection: Is Christmas Christian?
Richard Rohr asks about getting beyond the externals of the Christmas consumer culture to that which truly transforms us and draws us to God.
Activity: The Best Gifts at Christmas
Tony Campolo relates how the best gifts should represent investments of time and personal creativity that can be used to help those Jesus called the least of these.
Activity: A Family Giving Tree
Meg Cox uses the concept from Shel Silverstein’s book The Giving Tree to create a family ritual of giving in meaningful ways that reflect the spirit of Christmas.
* * *
SLW! Podcast Episode #56: Ken Weigel, Director of Advent Conspiracy
Since 2006 Advent Conspiracy has become a global movement of people and churches resisting the cultural Christmas narrative of consumption by choosing a revolutionary Christmas. In this episode, Ken illuminates each of four tenets:
- Spending Less,
- Giving More
- Loving All
- Worshipping Fully
Because of people who have entered into the conspiracy, millions of dollars have been given to provide clean water solutions around the world.
FREE Church Resources: Children’s Curriculum, audio, video, more
2015 video on YouTube, 3:09
* * *
WHOSE Birthday? #27
“Xmas Gift Equation” and “Priceless Gifts” by Susan Vogt
“Saving Forgetful Old St. Nick’ and “O Holy Night at the Clothes Closet” by Melodie Davis
“Advent Devotions” by Bob Sitze
“Putting Herod Back Into Christmas” by Joy Carroll Wallis
The classic Advent/Christmas resource “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” is available in multiple formats in 2015 to meet your personal, family and community needs.
“Whose Birthday?” #27 is a new, free online collection. You’re welcome to contribute to our most widely-read resource. All past editions are still available on the SLW! site. The articles are carefully indexed. The current edition will be updated as new material arrives, so send ideas and items anytime. Prepare something now while it’s really on your mind. Submission Guidelines
Yes, YOU can have our own customized, DIY Whose Birthday? Click here for tips to CREATE, PRODUCE, DISTRIBUTE and PROMOTE your do-it-yourself version.
Make it provocative, humorous, serious or a combination, in your way to advance SLW! mission: “equipping people of faith to challenge consumerism, live justly and celebrate responsibly.”
A legacy “Whose Birthday?” is scheduled for release as a multi-part SLW! podcast series in Nov.-Dec. It can also be used as text or audio. It’s calendar matches the lectionary cycle (C).
Read past editions in the archives.
What’s NOW with SLW!
-
SLW! Podcast Ep. 55: David E. Shi, educator, speaker, consultant, author of the classic “The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture” (10/15) Complete Preview
-
SLW! Podcast #54: Paul Canavese on Pope Francis — How to Keep His Momentum Building
- FALL FESTIVAL RESOURCES (free online)
- 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 — NOVEMBER
- 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: WHOSE Birthday? (Nov. 15-Dec. 31)
-
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)
-
- Inspiring Simplicity. Weekend Reads. (11/6)
- The Hope Effect: Changing How the World Cares for Orphans (11/1)
- A New, Minimalist Economy (10/26)
- Inspiring Simplicity. Weekend Reads. (10/24)
- 12 Simple Living Graphics to Share and Inspire Others (10/19)
- The Productivity of Being Non-Productive (10/13)
- The Appeal of Generosity (10/6)
- Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit
- The Common Good Podcast
- Episode 65 :: Mel Lions: Why Food Choices Are Our Best Portal to Making Differences Ecologically (11/1)
- Episode 64 :: Paul Canavese: Why Pope Francis’ Encyclical and Visit Matter (10/1)
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) — Website, Songbooks, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumbdrive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings — all NEW
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive
- Balancing Abundance and Need (11/6)
- Thou Shalt Not Exploit (10/30)
- We Have Defaulted (10/23)
- Destruction and Transformation (10/16)
- Why We Love Trucks (10/9)
- A US Dialogue with the Pope (9/25)
- GodSpace (Christine Sine)
- 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.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways // TMI-Too Much Information
-
Finding good homes for no longer needed items rather than just putting them in the trash.
- Finding Good Homes #2 – These are the miscellaneous items that have been gathering dust while I focused on Too Much Information over the summer.
- Finding Good Homes #3 – Weird things like carpet squares, trinkets, and not-so-weird things like towels
- Good Homes Are Hard To Find #4 – Things like mattresses and trophies are a challenge, plus the old stand by of “Leave it by the curb the day before garbage pick-up and hope someone “steals” it.
- Homes for Inherited Stuff #5 – What to do with stuff that carries emotional attachments or is too upscale for Goodwill.
- Pros & Cons of Recycling – When recycling is not enough.
For those who like to be current, you could also check out Inheriting & Investing Money that I just posted today.. - Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- New Celebrations (Clyde Griffith)
- NorthWest Earth Institute‘s newest discussion course ebook, Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions
- 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 new Slide Show
- The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese)
- CatholicCreationCare.com – General resources
- CreationCareKids.com – Children’s resources
- Advent/Christmas resources for families, some incorporating Alternatives.
- Easter resources for families
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough
- The Hidden Consumerism of Crafting (10/30)
- 37 Marketing Traps to Look Out For This Holiday Season
- Tips for Raising PostConsumer Children: Grade School // Middle School // High School // College
- Simple Enough (Bob Sitze)
- “More Magic Thoughts” (11/8)
- Mother Carey’s Chickens” (11/5)
- “Simple congregations: Longevity” (11/2)
- “No (Reformation) Choice” (10/30)
- “Simplicity’s Children: Shared Hobbies” (10/27)
- “Simple Things: Flowers” (10/24)
- “Filling in the Holes in Your Brain” (10/21)
- “Solving Global Warming” (10/18)
- “Magical Living” (10/15)
- “Lifestyle Exemplars” (10/12)
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)
- Simple and Super Healthy Thanksgiving Side Dishes (11/5)
- Easy Tricks to Get Your Daily Dose of Vitamins from Food (11/3)
- How can I minimize my wardrobe? (10/22)
- How to Quiet Your Mind for a Simpler Life, Even When It’s Busy (10/16)
- Tips to Cure the Shopaholic Inside You And De-Clutter Your Life (9/29)
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Latest edition
- 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)
- How to Grow Food Anywhere and Build Community Everywhere with Eugene Cooke, Ep. 83 (9/21)
- 5 Strategic Steps to Streamline Your Life with Miriam Ortiz y Pino, Ep. 82 (9/7)
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
Upcoming Alternate Celebrations
-
What’s Happened
- SLW! Podcast #53: World Community Cookbooks UPDATED
- SLW! Podcast #52: Kristina’s “Alternative” Ph.D. Dissertation + Plus links to other fascinating historical “Alternative” documents and photos.
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
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). Complete 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 SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.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-A529
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.
Simple Living Works! eNews
Posted November 1, 2015
on:Simple Living Works! eNews
Nov., 2015
In This Issue:
- Advent Conspiracy – interview with Ken Weigel
- WHOSE Birthday Is It, Anyway? #27
- Wisdom from Author David Shi on Simple Living
- Do-It-Yourself “Whose Birthday?”
- Free Fall Festival Resources
- What Others Are Doing – So much help!
- More!
SLW! Podcast Episode #56: Ken Weigel, Director of Advent Conspiracy
Since 2006 Advent Conspiracy has become a global movement of people and churches resisting the cultural Christmas narrative of consumption by choosing a revolutionary Christmas. In this episode, Ken illuminates each of four tenets:
- Spending Less,
- Giving More
- Loving All
- Worshipping Fully
Because of people who have entered into the conspiracy, millions of dollars have been given to provide clean water solutions around the world.
FREE Church Resources: Children’s Curriculum, audio, video, more
2015 video on YouTube, 3:09
WHOSE Birthday? #27
“Xmas Gift Equation” and “Priceless Gifts” by Susan Vogt
“Saving Forgetful Old St. Nick’ and “O Holy Night at the Clothes Closet” by Melodie Davis
“Advent Devotions” by Bob Sitze
“Putting Herod Back Into Christmas” by Joy Carroll Wallis
The classic Advent/Christmas resource “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” is available in multiple formats in 2015 to meet your personal, family and community needs.
“Whose Birthday?” #27 is a new, free online collection. You’re welcome to contribute to our most widely-read resource. All past editions are still available on the SLW! site. The articles are carefully indexed. The current edition will be updated as new material arrives, so send ideas and items anytime. Prepare something now while it’s really on your mind. Submission Guidelines
Yes, YOU can have our own customized, DIY Whose Birthday? Click here for tips to CREATE, PRODUCE, DISTRIBUTE and PROMOTE your do-it-yourself version.
Make it provocative, humorous, serious or a combination, in your way to advance SLW! mission: “equipping people of faith to challenge consumerism, live justly and celebrate responsibly.”
A legacy “Whose Birthday?” is scheduled for release as a multi-part SLW! podcast series in Nov.-Dec. It can also be used as text or audio. It’s calendar matches the lectionary cycle (C).
Read past editions in the archives.
What’s NOW with SLW!
-
SLW! Podcast Ep. 55: David E. Shi, educator, speaker, consultant, author of the classic “The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture” (10/15) Complete Preview
-
SLW! Podcast #54: Paul Canavese on Pope Francis — How to Keep His Momentum Building
- FALL FESTIVAL RESOURCES (free online)
- 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 — NOVEMBER
- 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: WHOSE Birthday? (Nov. 15-Jan. 1)
-
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
- The Common Good Podcast
- Episode 65 :: Mel Lions: Why Food Choices Are Our Best Portal to Making Differences Ecologically (11/1)
- Episode 64 :: Paul Canavese: Why Pope Francis’ Encyclical and Visit Matter (10/1)
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) — Website, Songbooks, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumbdrive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings — all NEW
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive
- Thou Shalt Not Exploit (10/30)
- We Have Defaulted (10/23)
- Destruction and Transformation (10/16)
- Why We Love Trucks (10/9)
- Too Many Choices (10/2)
- A US Dialogue with the Pope (9/25)
- GodSpace (Christine Sine)
- 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.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways // TMI-Too Much Information
- Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- New Celebrations (Clyde Griffith)
- NorthWest Earth Institute‘s newest discussion course ebook, Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions
- 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 new Slide Show
- The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese)
- CatholicCreationCare.com – General resources
- CreationCareKids.com – Children’s resources
- Advent/Christmas resources for families, some incorporating Alternatives.
- Easter resources for families
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough
- The Hidden Consumerism of Crafting (10/30)
- Inspiring Less-is-More Quotes to Find Your Personal Less (8/24)
- 37 Marketing Traps to Look Out For This Holiday Season
- Tips for Raising PostConsumer Children: Grade School // Middle School // High School // College
- Simple Enough (Bob Sitze)
- “Simple congregations: Longevity” (11/2)
- “No (Reformation) Choice” (10/30)
- “Simplicity’s Children: Shared Hobbies” (10/27)
- “Simple Things: Flowers” (10/24)
- “Filling in the Holes in Your Brain” (10/21)
- “Solving Global Warming” (10/18)
- “Magical Living” (10/15)
- “Lifestyle Exemplars” (10/12)
- “Simple Words: Kerfuffle” (10/9)
- “Let It Alone” (9/27)
- “Simplicity’s children: Dealing with FOMO” (9/24)
- “People analytics down at church” (9/21)
- “Simple enough: Special feature—Advent devotions” (9/18)
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)
- Simple and Super Healthy Thanksgiving Side Dishes (11/5)
- Easy Tricks to Get Your Daily Dose of Vitamins from Food (11/3)
- How can I minimize my wardrobe? (10/22)
- How to Quiet Your Mind for a Simpler Life, Even When It’s Busy (10/16)
- Tips to Cure the Shopaholic Inside You And De-Clutter Your Life (9/29)
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Latest edition
- 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)
- How to Grow Food Anywhere and Build Community Everywhere with Eugene Cooke, Ep. 83 (9/21)
- 5 Strategic Steps to Streamline Your Life with Miriam Ortiz y Pino, Ep. 82 (9/7)
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
Upcoming Alternate Celebrations
-
What’s Happened
- SLW! Podcast #53: World Community Cookbooks UPDATED
- SLW! Podcast #52: Kristina’s “Alternative” Ph.D. Dissertation + Plus links to other fascinating historical “Alternative” documents and photos.
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
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). Complete 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 SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
*IMAGE: AdventConspiracy.org
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.
Simple Living Works! Weekly
Posted October 26, 2015
on:Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
Oct. 25, 2015
In This Issue:
- WHOSE Birthday Is It, Anyway? #27
- Wisdom from Author David Shi on Simple Living
- Do-It-Yourself “Whose Birthday?”
- Free Fall Festival Resources
- What Others Are Doing – So much help!
- More!
WHOSE Birthday? #27
“Xmas Gift Equation” and “Priceless Gifts” by Susan Vogt
“Saving Forgetful Old St. Nick’ and “O Holy Night at the Clothes Closet” by Melodie Davis
“Advent Devotions” by Bob Sitze
“Putting Herod Back Into Christmas” by Joy Carroll Wallis
The classic Advent/Christmas resource “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” is available in multiple formats in 2015 to meet your personal, family and community needs.
“Whose Birthday?” #27 is a new, free online collection. You’re welcome to contribute to our most widely-read resource. All past editions are still available on the SLW! site. The articles are carefully indexed. The current edition will be updated as new material arrives, so send ideas and items anytime. Prepare something now while it’s really on your mind. Submission Guidelines
Yes, YOU can have our own customized, DIY Whose Birthday? Click here for tips to CREATE, PRODUCE, DISTRIBUTE and PROMOTE your do-it-yourself version.
Make it provocative, humorous, serious or a combination, in your way to advance SLW! mission: “equipping people of faith to challenge consumerism, live justly and celebrate responsibly.”
A legacy “Whose Birthday?” is scheduled for release as a multi-part SLW! podcast series in Nov.-Dec. It can also be used as text or audio. It’s calendar matches the lectionary cycle (C).
Read past editions in the archives.
What’s NOW with SLW!
-
SLW! Podcast Ep. 55: David E. Shi, educator, speaker, consultant, author of the classic “The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture” (10/15) Complete Preview
-
SLW! Podcast #54: Paul Canavese on Pope Francis — How to Keep His Momentum Building
-
FREE Publications
I’m looking for a good home for some interesting, unusual magazines. I request you pay only actual media mail charges. Look through the list. First come/first served. Please reply before the end of Oct.
- FALL FESTIVAL RESOURCES (free online)
- 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 — NOVEMBER
- 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 #56: Ken Weigel, Director of Advent Conspiracy (Nov.1) (complete preview)
- SLW! Podcast #57-60: WHOSE Birthday? (Nov.15-Jan.1)
-
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)
- A New, Minimalist Economy (10/26)
- Inspiring Simplicity. Weekend Reads. (10/24)
- 12 Simple Living Graphics to Share and Inspire Others (10/19)
- The Productivity of Being Non-Productive (10/13)
- The Appeal of Generosity (10/6)
- How to Use the Principle of the Tipping Point (9/29)
- Inspiring Simplicity. Weekend Reads. (9/25)
- Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit
- The Common Good Podcast
- Episode 64 :: Paul Canavese: Why Pope Francis’ Encyclical and Visit Matter (10/1)
- Episode 63 :: Judie Lincer: Naturalist Educator for SDCaN
- Episode 62 :: Jeff Lincer: Heroic Efforts to Manage Habitats of Endangered Species—Are They Succeeding?
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) — Website, Songbooks, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumbdrive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings — all NEW
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive
- We Have Defaulted (10/23)
- Destruction and Transformation (10/16)
- Why We Love Trucks (10/9)
- Too Many Choices (10/2)
- A US Dialogue with the Pope (9/25)
- GodSpace (Christine Sine)
- 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.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways // TMI-Too Much Information:
- NEW — Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- NEW — New Celebrations (Clyde Griffith)
- NorthWest Earth Institute‘s newest discussion course ebook, Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions
- 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 new Slide Show
- NEW – The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese)
- CatholicCreationCare.com – General resources
- CreationCareKids.com – Children’s resources
- Advent/Christmas resources for families, some incorporating Alternatives.
- Easter resources for families
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough
- Inspiring Less-is-More Quotes to Find Your Personal Less (8/24)
- NEW — 37 Marketing Traps to Look Out For This Holiday Season
- Tips for Raising PostConsumer Children: Grade School // Middle School // High School // College
- Simple Enough (Bob Sitze)
- Simplicity’s Children: Shared Hobbies (10/27)
- “Simple Things: Flowers (10/24)
- “Filling in the Holes in Your Brain” (10/21)
- “Solving Global Warming” (10/18)
- “Magical Living” (10/15)
- “Lifestyle Exemplars” (10/12)
- “Simple Words: Kerfuffle” (10/9)
- “Let It Alone” (9/27)
- “Simplicity’s children: Dealing with FOMO” (9/24)
- “People analytics down at church” (9/21)
- “Simple enough: Special feature—Advent devotions” (9/18)
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Latest edition
- NEW – Simplicity Collective – Let us be pioneers once more (Samuel Alexander)
- NEW – 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)
- How to Grow Food Anywhere and Build Community Everywhere with Eugene Cooke, Ep. 83 (9/21)
- 5 Strategic Steps to Streamline Your Life with Miriam Ortiz y Pino, Ep. 82 (9/7)
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
Upcoming Alternate Celebrations
-
What’s Happened
- SLW! Podcast #53: World Community Cookbooks UPDATED
- SLW! Podcast #52: Kristina’s “Alternative” Ph.D. Dissertation + Plus links to other fascinating historical “Alternative” documents and photos.
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
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). Complete 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 SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
*IMAGE: Spirit of Simplicity–Quotes & Art #3-A078
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.
Simple Living Works! Weekly
Posted October 20, 2015
on:Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
Oct. 20, 2015
In This Issue:
- Wisdom from Author David Shi on Simple Living
- Do-It-Yourself “Whose Birthday?”
- Free Fall Festival Resources
- What Others Are Doing – So much help!
- More!
SLW! Podcast Ep. 55: David E. Shi, educator, speaker, consultant, author of the classic “The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture” (10/15) Complete Preview
Yes, YOU can have our own customized, DIY Whose Birthday? Click here for tips to CREATE, PRODUCE, DISTRIBUTE and PROMOTE your do-it-yourself version.
Make it provocative, humorous, serious or a combination, in your way to advance SLW! mission: “equipping people of faith to challenge consumerism, live justly and celebrate responsibly.”
The classic Advent/Christmas resource “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” is available in multiple formats in 2015 to meet your personal, family and community needs.
“Whose Birthday?” #27 is a new, free online collection. You’re welcome to contribute to our most widely-read resource, “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” #27 for Advent/Christmas. All past editions are still available on the SLW! site. The articles are carefully indexed. The current edition will be updated as new material arrives, so send ideas and items anytime. Prepare something now while it’s really on your mind. Submission Guidelines
A legacy “Whose Birthday?” is scheduled for release as a multi-part SLW! podcast series in Nov.-Dec. It can also be used as text or audio. It’s calendar matches the lectionary cycle (C).
Read past editions in the archives.
What’s NOW with SLW!
-
SLW! Podcast #54: Paul Canavese on Pope Francis — How to Keep His Momentum Building
-
FREE Publications
I’m looking for a good home for some interesting, unusual magazines. I request you pay only actual media mail charges. Look through the list. First come/first served. Please reply before the end of Oct.
- FALL FESTIVAL RESOURCES
- 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 — OCTOBER
- 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: WHOSE Birthday? (Nov.-Dec.)
-
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
- The Common Good Podcast
- Episode 64 :: Paul Canavese: Why Pope Francis’ Encyclical and Visit Matter (10/1)
- Episode 63 :: Judie Lincer: Naturalist Educator for SDCaN
- Episode 62 :: Jeff Lincer: Heroic Efforts to Manage Habitats of Endangered Species—Are They Succeeding?
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) — Website, Songbooks, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumbdrive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings — all NEW
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive
- Destruction and Transformation (10/16)
- Why We Love Trucks (10/9)
- Too Many Choices (10/2)
- A US Dialogue with the Pope (9/25)
- Speaking Faith to Power (9/18)
- GodSpace (Christine Sine)
- 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.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways // TMI-Too Much Information:
- NEW — Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- NEW — New Celebrations (Clyde Griffith)
- NorthWest Earth Institute‘s newest discussion course ebook, Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions
- 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 new Slide Show
- NEW – The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese)
- CatholicCreationCare.com – General resources
- CreationCareKids.com – Children’s resources
- Advent/Christmas resources for families, some incorporating Alternatives.
- Easter resources for families
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough
- Inspiring Less-is-More Quotes to Find Your Personal Less (8/24)
- NEW — 37 Marketing Traps to Look Out For This Holiday Season
- Tips for Raising PostConsumer Children: Grade School // Middle School // High School // College
- Simple Enough (Bob Sitze)
- “Solving Global Warming” (10/18)
- “Magical Living” (10/15)
- “Lifestyle Exemplars” (10/12)
- “Simple Words: Kerfuffle” (10/9)
- “Let It Alone” (9/27)
- “Simplicity’s children: Dealing with FOMO” (9/24)
- “People analytics down at church” (9/21)
- “Simple enough: Special feature—Advent devotions” (9/18)
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Latest edition
- NEW – Simplicity Collective – Let us be pioneers once more (Samuel Alexander)
- NEW – 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)
- How to Grow Food Anywhere and Build Community Everywhere with Eugene Cooke, Ep. 83 (9/21)
- 5 Strategic Steps to Streamline Your Life with Miriam Ortiz y Pino, Ep. 82 (9/7)
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
Upcoming Alternate Celebrations
-
What’s Happened
- SLW! Podcast #53: World Community Cookbooks UPDATED
- SLW! Podcast #52: Kristina’s “Alternative” Ph.D. Dissertation + Plus links to other fascinating historical “Alternative” documents and photos.
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
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). Complete 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 SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
*IMAGE: DavidEShi.com
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.
Simple Living Works! Weekly
Posted October 9, 2015
on:Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
Oct. 8, 2015
In This Issue:
- Paul Canavese on Pope Francis’ Encyclical and US Visit
- Do-It-Yourself “Whose Birthday?”
- Free Fall Festival Resources
- What Others Are Doing – So much help!
- More!
Yes, YOU can have our own customized, DIY Whose Birthday? Click here for tips to CREATE, PRODUCE, DISTRIBUTE and PROMOTE your do-it-yourself version.
Make it provocative, humorous, serious or a combination, in your way to advance SLW! mission: “equipping people of faith to challenge consumerism, live justly and celebrate responsibly.”
The classic Advent/Christmas resource “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” is available in multiple formats in 2015 to meet your personal, family and community needs.
“Whose Birthday?” #27 is a new, free online collection. Use as much as you need in print or online. You’re welcome to contribute to our most widely-read resource, “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” #27 for Advent/Christmas. All past editions are still available on the SLW! site. The articles are carefully indexed. The current edition will be updated as new material arrives, so send ideas and items anytime. Prepare something now while it’s really on your mind. Submission Guidelines
A legacy “Whose Birthday?” is scheduled for release as a multi-part SLW! podcast series in late fall. It can also be used as text or audio. It’s calendar matches the lectionary cycle (C).
Read past editions in the archives.
What’s NOW with SLW!
SLW! Podcast #54: Paul Canavese on Pope Francis — How to Keep His Momentum Building
-
FREE Publications
I’m looking for a good home for some interesting, unusual magazines. I request you pay only actual media mail charges. Look through the list. First come/first served. Please reply before the end of Oct.
- FALL FESTIVAL RESOURCES
- 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 — OCTOBER
- 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. 55: David E. Shi, author of the classic “The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture” (10/15) Complete Preview
- SLW! Podcast #56-59: WHOSE Birthday? (Nov.-Dec.)
-
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)
- The Productivity of Being Non-Productive (10/13)
- The Appeal of Generosity (10/6)
- How to Use the Principle of the Tipping Point (9/29)
- Inspiring Simplicity. Weekend Reads. (9/25)
- Owning Less Is Great. Wanting Less Is Better. (9/15)
- Inspiring Simplicity. Weekend Reads. (9/12)
- A Season to Gather Happiness (9/7)
- Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit (7/14)
- The Common Good Podcast
- Episode 64 :: Paul Canavese: Why Pope Francis’ Encyclical and Visit Matter (10/1)
- Episode 63 :: Judie Lincer: Naturalist Educator for SDCaN
- Episode 62 :: Jeff Lincer: Heroic Efforts to Manage Habitats of Endangered Species—Are They Succeeding?
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) — Website, Songbooks, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumbdrive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings — all NEW
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive
- Why We Love Trucks (10/9)
- Too Many Choices (10/2)
- A US Dialogue with the Pope (9/25)
- Speaking Faith to Power (9/18)
- Strategic, Collective Action (9/11)
- GodSpace (Christine Sine)
- 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.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways // TMI-Too Much Information:
- NEW — Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- NEW — New Celebrations (Clyde Griffith)
- NorthWest Earth Institute‘s newest discussion course ebook, Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions
- 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 new Slide Show
- NEW – The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese)
- CatholicCreationCare.com – General resources
- CreationCareKids.com – Children’s resources
- Advent/Christmas resources for families, some incorporating Alternatives.
- Easter resources for families
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough
- Inspiring Less-is-More Quotes to Find Your Personal Less (8/24)
- NEW — 37 Marketing Traps to Look Out For This Holiday Season
- Tips for Raising PostConsumer Children: Grade School // Middle School // High School // College
- Simple Enough (Bob Sitze)
- “Simple Words: Kerfuffle” (10/9)
- “Let It Alone” (9/27)
- “Simplicity’s children: Dealing with FOMO” (9/24)
- “People analytics down at church” (9/21)
- “Simple enough: Special feature—Advent devotions” (9/18)
- “The cost of redemption” (Part 2) (9/15)
- “The cost of redemption” (Part 1) (9/12)
- “Simple words: Redemption” (9/9)
- “Simple congregation: Prayer writing as worship preparation” (9/6)
- “Simple things: Paper” (9/3)
- “Praying the Context” (8/31)
- “A Bandwagon Is Coming Your Way (8/28)
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Latest edition
- NEW – Simplicity Collective – Let us be pioneers once more (Samuel Alexander)
- NEW – 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)
- How to Grow Food Anywhere and Build Community Everywhere with Eugene Cooke, Ep. 83 (9/21)
- 5 Strategic Steps to Streamline Your Life with Miriam Ortiz y Pino, Ep. 82 (9/7)
- How Rich I am, What Angers Me, and the Mess I’m Withholding from You, Ep. 81 (8/24)
- The 4 Pillars of Survival and How to Reconnect to Nature with Cliff Hodges, Ep. 80 (8/10)
- How to End the Undeclared War on Childhood and Simplicity Parenting with Kim John Payne, Ep.79 (7/27)
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
Upcoming Alternate Celebrations
-
What’s Happened
- SLW! Podcast #53: World Community Cookbooks UPDATED
- SLW! Podcast #52: Kristina’s “Alternative” Ph.D. Dissertation + Plus links to other fascinating historical “Alternative” documents and photos.
- SLW! Podcast #51: Steve Beumer, White House ‘Champion of Change’ Honoree: People of Faith Acting for the Climate
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
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). Complete 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 SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.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-A533
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.
Simple Living Works! eNews #49
Posted October 1, 2015
on:Simple Living Works! eNews
Oct. 2015
In This Issue:
- Paul Canavese on Pope Francis’ Encyclical and US Visit
- Do-It-Yourself “Whose Birthday?”
- Free Fall Festival Resources
- What Others Are Doing – So much help!
- More!
Yes, YOU can have our own customized, DIY Whose Birthday? Click here for tips to CREATE, PRODUCE, DISTRIBUTE and PROMOTE your do-it-yourself version.
Make it provocative, humorous, serious or a combination, in your way to advance SLW! mission: “equipping people of faith to challenge consumerism, live justly and celebrate responsibly.”
The classic Advent/Christmas resource “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” is available in multiple formats in 2015 to meet your personal, family and community needs.
“Whose Birthday?” #27 is a new, free online collection. Use as much as you need in print or online. You’re welcome to contribute to our most widely-read resource, “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” #27 for Advent/Christmas. All past editions are still available on the SLW! site. The articles are carefully indexed. The current edition will be updated as new material arrives, so send ideas and items anytime. Prepare something now while it’s really on your mind. Submission Guidelines
A legacy “Whose Birthday?” is scheduled for release as a multi-part SLW! podcast series in late fall. It can also be used as text or audio. It’s calendar matches the lectionary cycle (C).
Read past editions in the archives.
What’s NOW with SLW!
SLW! Podcast #54: Paul Canavese on Pope Francis — How to Keep His Momentum Building
-
FREE Publications
I’m looking for a good home for some interesting, unusual magazines. I request you pay only actual media mail charges. Look through the list. First come/first served. Please reply before the end of Oct.
- FALL FESTIVAL RESOURCES
- 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 — OCTOBER
- 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: David E. Shi, author of “The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in America” (10/15)
-
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)
-
- The Appeal of Generosity (10/6)
- How to Use the Principle of the Tipping Point (9/29)
- Inspiring Simplicity. Weekend Reads. (9/25)
- Owning Less Is Great. Wanting Less Is Better. (9/15)
- Inspiring Simplicity. Weekend Reads. (9/12)
- A Season to Gather Happiness (9/7)
- 7 Daily Habits for a Clutter-Free Home (9/2)
- Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit (7/14)
- The Common Good Podcast
- Episode 64 :: Paul Canavese: Why Pope Francis’ Encyclical and Visit Matter (10/1)
- Episode 63 :: Judie Lincer: Naturalist Educator for SDCaN
- Episode 62 :: Jeff Lincer: Heroic Efforts to Manage Habitats of Endangered Species—Are They Succeeding?
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) — Website, Songbooks, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumbdrive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings — all NEW
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive
- Too Many Choices (10/2)
- A US Dialogue with the Pope (9/25)
- Speaking Faith to Power (9/18)
- Strategic, Collective Action (9/11)
- United We Bargain (9/4)
- Aging Parents and Coal Towns (8/28)
- GodSpace (Christine Sine)
- 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.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways // TMI-Too Much Information:
-
- Paper–newspapers, magazines, catalogs, junk mail, books
- Audio/Visual Media–radio, TV, movies, videos,
- Electronic Communication–email, social media
- Phone–solicitations, cell phone limits, smart phones
- Being Weighed Down by Too Much Bad News–wars, natural disasters, tragedies
- NEW — Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- NEW — New Celebrations (Clyde Griffith)
- NorthWest Earth Institute‘s newest discussion course ebook, Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions
- 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 new Slide Show
- NEW – The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese)
- CatholicCreationCare.com – General resources
- CreationCareKids.com – Children’s resources
- Advent/Christmas resources for families, some incorporating Alternatives.
- Easter resources for families
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough
- Inspiring Less-is-More Quotes to Find Your Personal Less (8/24)
- NEW — 37 Marketing Traps to Look Out For This Holiday Season
- Tips for Raising PostConsumer Children: Grade School // Middle School // High School // College
- Simple Enough (Bob Sitze)
- “Let It Alone” (9/27)
- “Simplicity’s children: Dealing with FOMO” (9/24)
- “People analytics down at church” (9/21)
- “Simple enough: Special feature—Advent devotions” (9/18)
- “The cost of redemption” (Part 2) (9/15)
- “The cost of redemption” (Part 1) (9/12)
- “Simple words: Redemption” (9/9)
- “Simple congregation: Prayer writing as worship preparation” (9/6)
- “Simple things: Paper” (9/3)
- “Praying the Context” (8/31)
- “A Bandwagon Is Coming Your Way (8/28)
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Latest edition
- NEW – Simplicity Collective – Let us be pioneers once more (Samuel Alexander)
- NEW – 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)
- How to Grow Food Anywhere and Build Community Everywhere with Eugene Cooke, Ep. 83 (9/21)
- 5 Strategic Steps to Streamline Your Life with Miriam Ortiz y Pino, Ep. 82 (9/7)
- How Rich I am, What Angers Me, and the Mess I’m Withholding from You, Ep. 81 (8/24)
- The 4 Pillars of Survival and How to Reconnect to Nature with Cliff Hodges, Ep. 80 (8/10)
- How to End the Undeclared War on Childhood and Simplicity Parenting with Kim John Payne, Ep.79 (7/27)
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
Upcoming Alternate Celebrations
-
What’s Happened
- SLW! Podcast #52: Kristina’s “Alternative” Ph.D. Dissertation + Plus links to other fascinating historical “Alternative” documents and photos.
- SLW! Podcast #51: Steve Beumer, White House ‘Champion of Change’ Honoree: People of Faith Acting for the Climate
- SLW! Podcast #50: Joyce “Earth Mama” Rouse — Read her bio, philosophy and resources at her NEW Website. Also, Songbooks, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumbdrive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings — all NEW
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
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). Complete 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 SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
*IMAGE: The Pastoral Center
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.
Simple Living Works! Weekly
Posted September 27, 2015
on:Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
In This Issue:
- Do-It-Yourself “Whose Birthday?”
- World Community Cookbooks Updated
- Free Fall Festival Resources
- What Others Are Doing – So much help!
- More!
Yes, YOU can have our own customized, DIY Whose Birthday? Click here for tips to CREATE, PRODUCE, DISTRIBUTE and PROMOTE your do-it-yourself version.
Make it provocative, humorous (such as art above), serious or a combination, in your way to advance SLW! mission: “equipping people of faith to challenge consumerism, live justly and celebrate responsibly.”
The classic Advent/Christmas resource “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” is available in multiple formats in 2015 to meet your personal, family and community needs.
“Whose Birthday?” #27 is a new, free online collection. Use as much as you need in print or online. Also, contribute your art and articles to SLW!
A legacy “Whose Birthday?” is scheduled for release as a multi-part SLW! podcast series in late fall. It can also be used as text or audio. It’s calendar matches the lectionary cycle (C).
You’re welcome to contribute to our most widely-read resource, “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” #27 for Advent/Christmas. All past editions are still available on the SLW! site. The articles are carefully indexed.
The current edition will be updated as new material arrives, so send ideas and items anytime. Prepare something now while it’s really on your mind. Submission Guidelines
Read past editions in the archives.
What’s NOW with SLW!
- SLW! Podcast #53: World Community Cookbooks UPDATED
- SLW! Podcast #52: Kristina’s “Alternative” Ph.D. Dissertation + Plus links to other fascinating historical “Alternative” documents and photos.
-
FREE Publications
I’m looking for a good home for some interesting, unusual magazines. I request you pay only actual media mail charges. Look through the list. First come/first served. Please reply by the end of Sept.
- FALL FESTIVAL RESOURCES
- 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 — SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER
- 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: Paul Canavese on Pope Francis (10/1)
-
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)
-
- How to Use the Principle of the Tipping Point (9/29)
- Inspiring Simplicity. Weekend Reads. (9/25)
- Owning Less Is Great. Wanting Less Is Better. (9/15)
- Inspiring Simplicity. Weekend Reads. (9/12)
- A Season to Gather Happiness (9/7)
- 7 Daily Habits for a Clutter-Free Home (9/2)
- Inspiring Simplicity. Weekend Reads. (8/29)
- Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit (7/14)
- The Common Good Podcast
- Episode 63 :: Judie Lincer: Naturalist Educator for SDCaN
- Episode 62 :: Jeff Lincer: Heroic Efforts to Manage Habitats of Endangered Species—Are They Succeeding?
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) — Website, Songbooks, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumbdrive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings — all NEW
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive
- A US Dialogue with the Pope (9/25)
- Speaking Faith to Power (9/18)
- Strategic, Collective Action (9/11)
- United We Bargain (9/4)
- Aging Parents and Coal Towns (8/28)
- GodSpace (Christine Sine)
- 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.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways // TMI-Too Much Information:
-
- Paper–newspapers, magazines, catalogs, junk mail, books
- Audio/Visual Media–radio, TV, movies, videos,
- Electronic Communication–email, social media
- Phone–solicitations, cell phone limits, smart phones
- Being Weighed Down by Too Much Bad News–wars, natural disasters, tragedies
- NEW — Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- NorthWest Earth Institute‘s newest discussion course ebook, Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions
- 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 new Slide Show
- NEW – The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese)
- CatholicCreationCare.com – General resources
- CreationCareKids.com – Children’s resources
- Advent/Christmas resources for families, some incorporating Alternatives.
- Easter resources for families
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough
- Inspiring Less-is-More Quotes to Find Your Personal Less (8/24)
- Tips for Raising PostConsumer Children
- Grade School Years
- Middle School Years
- High School Years
- College Years
- Simple Enough (Bob Sitze)
- “Let It Alone” (9/27)
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“Simplicity’s children: Dealing with FOMO” (9/24)
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“People analytics down at church” (9/21)
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“Simple enough: Special feature—Advent devotions” (9/18)
- “The cost of redemption” (Part 2) (9/15)
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“The cost of redemption” (Part 1) (9/12)
- “Simple words: Redemption” (9/9)
- “Simple congregation: Prayer writing as worship preparation” (9/6)
- “Simple things: Paper” (9/3)
- “Praying the Context” (8/31)
- “A Bandwagon Is Coming Your Way (8/28)
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Latest edition
- NEW – Simplicity Collective – Let us be pioneers once more (Samuel Alexander)
- NEW – 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)
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
Upcoming Alternate Celebrations
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What’s Happened
- SLW! Podcast #51: Steve Beumer, White House ‘Champion of Change’ Honoree: People of Faith Acting for the Climate
- SLW! Podcast #50: Joyce “Earth Mama” Rouse — Read her bio, philosophy and resources at her NEW Website. Also, Songbooks, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumbdrive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings — all NEW
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
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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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Light Shines in Deepest Night
Posted November 6, 2014
on:Legacy WHOSE Birthday Is It, Anyway?
Reflections by author Marjorie J. Thompson, including Services and Activities by Larry J. Peacock and Kathleen Connolly. Enjoy them now. Share them later with your family or congregation through your website, newsletter, study group. . . .
- Introduction
- Authors
- First Sunday of Advent (God’s Sovereign Reign: Judgment and Promise)
- Second Sunday of Advent (Preparing for the Messiah: Repentance)
- Third Sunday of Advent (Signs of the True Messiah)
- Fourth Sunday of Advent (God with Us: Salvation from Sin)
- Christmas Eve/Day (A Child Is Born: The Light of the World)
- Christmas I (Our Intimate God: Trusting and Trustworthy)
- Epiphany (Your Light Is Come: Glorify God!)
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What’s NOW with SLW!
- SLW! shares resources for this Advent-Christmas-Epiphany in many ways. 1. The WHOSE Birthday? four-part podcast series includes reflections and activities by Daniel Berrigan, William Sloane Coffin, Meg Cox, Betsy Taylor, Susan Briehl and many more from edition #18. Episodes 32-35 will be released in iTunes and Stitcher Nov. 1 & 15; Dec. 1 & 15. Or you listen to any/all of them at your leisure on the SLW! site. 2. The new online edition of Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? #26 is ready. You can still contribute a Biblical Reflection or Family Activity. 3. Once or twice a week we’ll highlight a series of reflections from a past edition in this blog, as we did in 2013. (To find the 2013 offerings, skim through Nov. and Dec. in the Archives in the right column of this blog.) The first set, “Make Ready the Way of the Lord…” by Tom Hall, also includes Services and Activities by Julie Peeples and Paul Davis. All three are ordained ministers and have been affiliated with Habitat for Humanity. (To find the 2013 offerings, skim through Nov. and Dec. in the Archives in the right column of this blog.) Enjoy them now. Share them later with your family or congregation through your website, newsletter, study group. . . . All three offerings — text, podcast, new, past — are different content. Also see “What’s Coming” and “What’s Happened” below.
- Alternate End Times Before the new church year starts with Advent on Sunday, Nov. 30, we struggle with the End Times in the final Sundays of Ordinary Time, i.e., the Sundays after Pentecost. I offer a variety of resources that present a different view of the end of civilization as we know it. You may or may not find these helpful. As a devout progressive Christian, I have. Read my blog Vision of the Future. The resources offer a variety of ways to deal with Creation Crisis spiritually and psychologically, since so many of our wealth-and-power-obsessed corporate and government “leaders” refuse to deal with it actually. And gullible Americans persist in electing them and buying their products. |My recent blog Murder and Resurrection
- Extending the Table World Community Cookbook Updated
- What Might a Prophet Look Like? BOB SITZE on SLW! Podcast #31 | RELATED: What Might a Christian Life Look Like?
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Fall Festival Resources
- Fall Plans blog
- How to Host an Alternative Gift Fair | Planning an Alternative Christmas Workshop | How to Organize an Alternative Christmas Community Festival
- UNPLUG the Christmas Machine Workshop Leader’s Guide | UNPLUG blog
- Resource Index: Advent/Christmas
- Thanksgiving blog: How We Celebrate Says a Lot About How We Live
- Anyone can use our online Leaders’ Guide and Participants’ Manual to UNPLUG the Christmas Machine Workshop at no charge. No one is allowed to sell copies of these.
- Submit now to “WHOSE Birthday?” 2014. Contribute to our most widely-read resource, “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” for Advent/Christmas, now published online. All 25+ editions are available on the SLW! site. Article Index.
- ART (line drawing, photo) that depicts the tension between faith and culture, especially at Christmas.
- PERSONAL EXPERIENCES (especially intergenerational ones) related to simplifying Christmas or finding meaning and happiness in relationships instead of stuff.
- FAMILY ACTIVITIES, rituals or worshipful ceremonies for Advent, Christmas or Epiphany.
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – November
- Check out a few of these thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE.
- Treasury of Celebrations*: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth Earth – Sept.-Dec. | ADVENT | CHRISTMAS
- Worship Alternatives: Pentecost/Ordinary Time | Advent/Christmas/Epiphany
- Spirit of Simplicity: ART | QUOTES
- 10 Tips for Simpler, More Meaningful Celebrations | Spanish: 10 puntas
- Alternatives’ Seasonal/Thematic Index
What’s Coming
- WHOSE Birthday? reflections by Jim McGinnis of the Institute for Peace & Justice; singing nun Miriam Therese Winter (remember “Joy Is Like the Rain”?); Connie & Milo Thornberry, former director of Alternatives; Linda-Marie Delloff; Justo & Catherine Gonzalez.
- Nov.-Dec. – new “WHOSE Birthday?” SLW! Podcast series. Podcast Index, including “WHOSE Birthday?” 2013.
What’s Happened
- SLW! Podcast #30 – Paul Canavese, head of GospelLiving.org. It’s so encouraging when someone uses or re-issues some of Alternatives’ resources. Paul Canavese of The Pastoral Center has incorporated some of Alternatives’ Advent/Christmas resources in its new Simply Advent eResource series. (Or see all of their Advent eResources.)
- Feeling Bullied by Consumo? Ask Slim. I’ll give my reply to questions that are broadly about simpler living and invite you to add yours.
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media with links
What Others Are Doing
- The Common Good Podcast Episode 53 :: Dan Swanson: How U.S. Policies in Latin America Drive Immigrants North for Survival
- Seeing Systems: Peace, Justice and Sustainability – New Course from Northwest Earth Institute
- 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
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*GRAPHIC – “Whose Birthday?” #9
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.