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Livin’ Simply ‘n Lovin’ It! (part 2)
Posted on: May 23, 2015
SLW! Podcast
Alternatives’ legacy audio recording Living Simply and Loving It! was made to accompany Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists Shy or Bold. | Similar TEXT Version | Gerald Iversen
Then we made the video Simple Living Struggles and Solutions, which is based on the same concepts but includes many different examples. See it as Simple Living Works! on YouTube.
Parts 1 & 2 below link to the newly-produced podcast episodes. Segments 1-5 go to the original recordings (without notes). MENTION links go to the free resources referenced on the SLW! site.
PART 2 – Ep. 45 (episode index)
- Segment 3: Life Standards – Learn from the World Community, Nurture People, Non-Conform Freely
- Segment 4: Mission — MENTIONS: Prophetic Messages // Community Cookbooks // TV Turn Off Week // Buy Nothing Day // Justin Lewis: Media and Consumer Capitalism // Media Literacy // 12 Steps to a Simpler Life // Giving Ourselves 10 Years to Retire // Alternative Giving // Alternate Market, Workshop, Festival // SLOW Down // Simplicity Forum // Take Back Your Time // Let’s Talk About Christmas worksheet // Gratitude Card
- Segment 5: Resources — MENTIONS: Whose Birthday? // 10 Tips // Videos // Christmas Campaign Kit // Carols with Justice // Any Year Calendar // Spirit of Simplicity: Quotes & Art // Wedding Alternatives // Break Forth into Joy video // Treasury of Celebrations
- Segment 1: Introduction
- Segment 2: Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity – Cherish the Natural Order, Do Justice
- MENTIONS: Living More with Less
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- In the Steps of St. Paul -Rita and I had the pleasure of traveling to Greece (and a bit of Turkey) this spring. We were celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary. . . about five years late. Two new grandchildren kept changing our plans! We visited the sites where St. Paul planted early Christian churches, and for whom epistles in the New Testament are named – Thessaloniki, Philippi, Corinth, Ephesus.
A main incentive of such a tour for Simple Livers is the Life Standard “Learn from the World Community.” Other ways to learn are through Fair Trade, food and music. The five Life Standards of Living More with Less sometimes require trade-offs. Such a trip rubs up against “Cherish the Natural Order,” because they tend to be environmentally stressful, and against “Do Justice!” - SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – MAY
- 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 Happened
- SLW! Podcast: Episode 43: Jeff Yeager, much more than the Ultimate Cheapskate; author of The Cheapskate Next Door and Don’t Throw That Away! // Jeff’s The Cheap Life on YouTube (AARP) // Jeff’s Savings Expert (AARP)
- Episode 42 – Clyde Griffith of NewCelebrations.com: Resources that reflect a more healthy, a more sane, a more theologically correct approach to more meaningful celebration of Christmas and other holidays.
- Episode 41 – Sarah van Gelder, co-founder and editor-in-chief of YES! Magazine, and author of Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference.
- Episode 40 – Joel Zaslofsky, the Chief Simplifier, Curator, and Founder at Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time Money and Talent; host of Smart and Simple Matters.
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
What Others Are Doing
- Susan Vogt Blog Alert
- That socially responsible thing: Some find love of neighbor influences buying, investing behavior
- The Common Good Podcast – Episode 59 :: Doug Clegg: Why Some Artists Avoid the Entertainment Industry
- Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals || Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show
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).
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Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
IMAGE: Jerry & new-born granddaughter Eliana Iversen
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.
In the Steps of St. Paul
Posted on: May 11, 2015
Rita and I had the pleasure of traveling to Greece (and a bit of Turkey) this spring. We were celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary. . . about five years late. Two new grandchildren kept changing our plans!
We traveled with 25 C
alifornia Central Coast Lutherans and eleven Tenn
essee United Methodists. The eleven day trip – half bus and half cruise – was organized through E.O. – Educational Opportunities, a non-profit organization. Several leaders, mostly pastors, recruited participants. Russ Gordon was bus captain. Carl and Susan Nielsen were trip hosts. Carl is a also an energetic professional photographer and videographer who captures the sites for E.O.
We visited the sites where St. Paul planted early Christian churches, and for whom epistles in the New Testament are named – Thessaloniki, Philippi, Corinth, Ephesus. (Ten couples renewed their wedding vows in Corinth. Remember the love poem in I Cor. 13?) We also visited the extraordinary monasteries/nunneries perched atop monoliths at Meteora, and the Coliseum and Parthenon in Athens.
Yes, such a trip does put St. Paul’s work in context. Most of the sites are larger and more sophisticated than I had imagined. Despite its economic woes, Greece continues to maintain wonderful museums and to restore historic ruins.
Interesting contrast. The merchants in Greece were friendly but reserved. In Turkey they were aggressive.
A main incentive of such a tour for Simple Livers is the Life Standard “Learn from the World Community.” Common ways to learn are through Fair Trade, food and music. The five Life Standards of Living More with Less sometimes require trade-offs. Such a trip rubs up against “Cherish the Natural Order,” because they tend to be environmentally stressful, and against “Do Justice!” because cruise lines are notoriously unfair to cruise workers. The cruises are also inherently wasteful, most noticeably food and consumables.
Rita plans to offer a program this fall to church groups based on the tour. She’s writing her daily journal and processing my photos now. If/when it’s uploaded to the internet, I’ll post a link.
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- May SLW! Podcasts: Livin’ Simply ‘n Lovin’ It! | Similar TEXT Version | Gerald Iversen | PART 1 – Ep. 44
- Segment 1: Introduction
- Segment 2: Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity – Cherish the Natural Order, Do Justice
- MENTIONS: Living More with Less
May 15: PART 2 – Ep. 45 (complete preview now)
- SLW! Podcast: Episode 43: Jeff Yeager, much more than the Ultimate Cheapskate; author of The Cheapskate Next Door and Don’t Throw That Away! // Jeff’s The Cheap Life on YouTube (AARP) // Jeff’s Savings Expert (AARP)
- SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – MAY
- 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 Happened
- Episode 42 – Clyde Griffith of NewCelebrations.com: Resources that reflect a more healthy, a more sane, a more theologically correct approach to more meaningful celebration of Christmas and other holidays. // Facebook | Twitter @ClydeGriffith | Pinterest (Words of Life) // How We Celebrate Says a Lot About How We Live
- Episode 41 – Sarah van Gelder, co-founder and editor-in-chief of YES! Magazine, and author of Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference.
- Episode 40 – Joel Zaslofsky, the Chief Simplifier, Curator, and Founder at Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time Money and Talent. He also hosts the popular Smart and Simple Matters show. His recent book is Experience Curating: How to Gain Focus, Increase Influence and Simply Your Life. He organizes the annual SimpleREV Movement & Conference — Revive and Rev It Up! + All Things SimpleREV Podcast.
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
What Others Are Doing
- That socially responsible thing: Some find love of neighbor influences buying, investing behavior
- The Common Good Podcast
Episode 59 :: Doug Clegg: Why Some Artists Avoid the Entertainment Industry - Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals || Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show
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 Feedback@SimpleLivingWorks.org [or SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com or SimpleLivingWorks2@gmail.com], leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
IMAGE: Jerry & Rita Iversen in Greece with mountains, restored ruins and baklava
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 #44 — May, 2015
May SLW! Podcasts: Livin’ Simply ‘n Lovin’ It!
Similar TEXT Version | Gerald Iversen
- Segment 1: Introduction
- Segment 2: Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity – Cherish the Natural Order, Do Justice
- MENTIONS: Living More with Less
PART 2 – Ep. 45 (complete preview)
- Segment 3: Life Standards – Learn from the World Community, Nurture People, Non-Conform Freely
- Segment 4: Mission
- Segment 5: Resources
SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.
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What’s NOW with SLW!
- SLW! Podcast: Episode 42: Jeff Yeager, much more than the Ultimate Cheapskate; author of The Cheapskate Next Door and Don’t Throw That Away! // Jeff’s The Cheap Life on YouTube (AARP) // Jeff’s Savings Expert (AARP)
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – MAY
- 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
- Off to Greece — Rita and I recently walked in the steps of St. Paul.
What’s Happened
- Episode 42 – Clyde Griffith of NewCelebrations.com: Resources that reflect a more healthy, a more sane, a more theologically correct approach to more meaningful celebration of Christmas and other holidays. // Facebook | Twitter @ClydeGriffith | Pinterest (Words of Life) // How We Celebrate Says a Lot About How We Live
- Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? is an expanding, free collection of alternative resources for Lent/Holy/Week/Easter. || Contribute! Submission Guidelines
- Episode 41 – Sarah van Gelder, co-founder and editor-in-chief of YES! Magazine, and author of Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference.
- Episode 40 – Joel Zaslofsky, the Chief Simplifier, Curator, and Founder at Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time Money and Talent. He also hosts the popular Smart and Simple Matters show. His recent book is Experience Curating: How to Gain Focus, Increase Influence and Simply Your Life. He organizes the annual SimpleREV Movement & Conference — Revive and Rev It Up! + All Things SimpleREV Podcast.
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
What Others Are Doing
- That socially responsible thing: Some find love of neighbor influences buying, investing behavior
- The 50 Day Challenge. Simplify. Give. Change. The Overflow Project encourages simple living and generous giving in order to change lives. Your participation in the 50-Day Challenge will make a difference in your daily life and also change lives in eleven villages of the Laputta area of the Ayeyarwaddy Region in Myanmar. Join the 50-Day challenge today! 100% of funds donated from the 50-Day Challenge will go to partner with World Concern in supporting clean water, sanitation and health needs, and cyclone shelters in this region.
- The Common Good Podcast
Episode 59 :: Doug Clegg: Why Some Artists Avoid the Entertainment Industry - Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals || Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show
- Colleague Kevin Tupper’s new Christian Simplicity site welcomes anyone to discuss Mark Scandrette’s book, “FREE: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most.”
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 Feedback@SimpleLivingWorks.org [or SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com or SimpleLivingWorks2@gmail.com], leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
IMAGE: Jerry Iversen
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.
More Than a Cheapskate
Posted on: April 16, 2015
SLW! Podcast: Jeff Yeager, much more than the Ultimate Cheapskate
Author of The Cheapskate Next Door and Don’t Throw That Away!
Jeff’s The Cheap Life on YouTube (AARP)
Jeff’s Savings Expert (AARP)
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Off to Greece
Rita and I are walking in the steps of St. Paul in Greece soon. SLW! blog will be on vacation mid-April till early May.
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What’s NOW with SLW!
- Clyde Griffith of NewCelebrations.com: Resources that reflect a more healthy, a more sane, a more theologically correct approach to more meaningful celebration of Christmas and other holidays. // Facebook | Twitter @ClydeGriffith | Pinterest (Words of Life) // How We Celebrate Says a Lot About How We Live
- April Is Financial Literacy Month Financial Literacy and Media Literacy are two of the pillars of SLW! In additional to Jeff Yeager’s podcast comments, here are more helps: Financial Literacy Month official site | “SLW! Recommends” Literacy Project on Financial Literacy/Consumerism || Financial Literacy Month? Don’t Be Fooled: A solution to this ongoing crisis is emerging courtesy of the FoolProof Foundation’s Walter Cronkite Project. The project is offering a financial literacy curriculum that works. It is free, no strings attached — right now, to all teachers and educators. The curriculum is extensive — it offers up to 22 hours of financial literacy training, all turn-key for the teacher/mentor. || Making a Difference: Being Wise with Money using the Save-Spend-Share formula. Thrivent Financial is the nation’s largest fraternal organization. A merger of Lutheran Brotherhood and Aid Association for Lutherans, Thrivent now serves all Christians and distributes part of its profits through its members to any qualified 501-c-3, non-profit organization. (Disclaimer: Rita and I have all our retirement funds in Thrivent. Thrivent does not distribute funds to organizations that it considers “divisive.”)
- Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? is an expanding, free collection of alternative resources for Lent/Holy/Week/Easter. || Contribute! Submission Guidelines
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – April
- Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index
What’s Coming
- May SLW! Podcasts: Livin’ Simply ‘n Lovin’ It! // Preview complete episodes 44 & 45 now.
- EARTH Day | 7 Earth Care Helps
- Waging Peace at Tax Time
What’s Happened
- Simple Living Works! Podcast
- SLW! Podcast Episode 41 – Sarah van Gelder, co-founder and editor-in-chief of YES! Magazine, and author of Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference.
- Episode 40 – Joel Zaslofsky, the Chief Simplifier, Curator, and Founder at Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time Money and Talent. He also hosts the popular Smart and Simple Matters show. His recent book is Experience Curating: How to Gain Focus, Increase Influence and Simply Your Life. He organizes the annual SimpleREV Movement & Conference — Revive and Rev It Up! + All Things SimpleREV Podcast.
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
What Others Are Doing
- The 50 Day Challenge began Easter Sunday, April 5th. Simplify. Give. Change. The Overflow Project encourages simple living and generous giving in order to change lives. This year, your participation in the 50-Day Challenge will make a difference in your daily life and also change lives in eleven villages of the Laputta area of the Ayeyarwaddy Region in Myanmar. Join the 50-Day challenge today! 100% of funds donated from the 50-Day Challenge will go to partner with World Concern in supporting clean water, sanitation and health needs, and cyclone shelters in this region.
- The Common Good Podcast
Episode 58 :: Veronica Lozada: Lawyer Defending Common Person vs. Powers in Mexico - Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals || Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show
- Colleague Kevin Tupper’s new Christian Simplicity site is starting a new discussion using Mark Scandrette’s book, “FREE: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most.” He welcomes anyone to join in.
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3).
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 Feedback@SimpleLivingWorks.org [or SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com or SimpleLivingWorks2@gmail.com], leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
IMAGE: Jeff Yeager
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.
Why New Celebrations?
Posted on: April 6, 2015
SLW! Podcast April Episodes
Clyde Griffith of NewCelebrations.com
NewCelebrations.com: Resources that reflect a more healthy, a more sane, a more theologically correct approach to more meaningful celebration of Christmas and other holidays.
Facebook | Twitter @ClydeGriffith | Pinterest (Words of Life)
How We Celebrate Says a Lot About How We Live
* * *
Off to Greece
Rita and I are walking in the steps of St. Paul in Greece soon. SLW! blog will be on vacation mid-April till early May.
* * *
Subscribe to SLW! Blog
Click “+Follow” at lower right of blog post, enter a name and email address. Welcome!
* * *
What’s NOW with SLW!
- April Is Financial Literacy Month Financial Literacy and Media Literacy are two of the pillars of SLW! In additional to Jeff Yeager’s podcast comments, here are more helps: Financial Literacy Month official site | “SLW! Recommends” Literacy Project on Financial Literacy/Consumerism || Financial Literacy Month? Don’t Be Fooled: A solution to this ongoing crisis is emerging courtesy of the FoolProof Foundation’s Walter Cronkite Project. The project is offering a financial literacy curriculum that works. It is free, no strings attached — right now, to all teachers and educators. The curriculum is extensive — it offers up to 22 hours of financial literacy training, all turn-key for the teacher/mentor. || Making a Difference: Being Wise with Money using the Save-Spend-Share formula. Thrivent Financial is the nation’s largest fraternal organization. A merger of Lutheran Brotherhood and Aid Association for Lutherans, Thrivent now serves all Christians and distributes part of its profits through its members to any qualified 501-c-3, non-profit organization. (Disclaimer: Rita and I have all our retirement funds in Thrivent. Thrivent does not distribute funds to organizations that it considers “divisive.”)
- Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? is an expanding, free collection of alternative resources for Lent/Holy/Week/Easter. || Contribute! Submission Guidelines
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – April
- Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index
What’s Coming
- SLW! Podcast–April 15: Jeff Yeager, More than the Ultimate Cheapskate — Preview complete episode 43 now
- EARTH Day | 7 Earth Care Helps
- Waging Peace at Tax Time
What’s Happened
- Simple Living Works! Podcast
- SLW! Podcast Episode 41 – Sarah van Gelder, co-founder and editor-in-chief of YES! Magazine, and author of Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference. YES! reframes the biggest problems of our time in terms of their solutions. Online and in print, YES! outlines a path forward with in-depth analysis, tools for citizen engagement, and stories about real people working for a better world.
- Episode 40 – Joel Zaslofsky, the Chief Simplifier, Curator, and Founder at Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time Money and Talent. He also hosts the popular Smart and Simple Matters show. His recent book is Experience Curating: How to Gain Focus, Increase Influence and Simply Your Life. He organizes the annual SimpleREV Movement & Conference — Revive and Rev It Up! + All Things SimpleREV Podcast.
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
What Others Are Doing
- The 50 Day Challenge began Easter Sunday, April 5th. Simplify. Give. Change. The Overflow Project encourages simple living and generous giving in order to change lives. This year, your participation in the 50-Day Challenge will make a difference in your daily life and also change lives in eleven villages of the Laputta area of the Ayeyarwaddy Region in Myanmar. Join the 50-Day challenge today! 100% of funds donated from the 50-Day Challenge will go to partner with World Concern in supporting clean water, sanitation and health needs, and cyclone shelters in this region.
- New Easter Resource for parents from colleague Paul Canavese at The Pastoral Center (incorporating some content from Alternatives)
- The Common Good Podcast
Episode 58 :: Veronica Lozada: Lawyer Defending Common Person vs. Powers in Mexico - Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals || Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show
- Colleague Kevin Tupper’s new Christian Simplicity site is starting a new discussion using Mark Scandrette’s book, “FREE: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most.” He welcomes anyone to join in.
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3).
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 Feedback@SimpleLivingWorks.org [or SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com or SimpleLivingWorks2@gmail.com], leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
IMAGES: Clyde Griffith and Joel Yeager
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.
Clyde
Jeff
SLW! Podcast April Episodes
Clyde Griffith of NewCelebrations.com
- April 15: Jeff Yeager, More than the Ultimate Cheapskate — Preview complete episode 43 now
Off to Greece
Rita and I are walking in the steps of St. Paul in Greece during the the second half of April. SLW! blog will be on vacation till early May.
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April Is Financial Literacy Month
Financial Literacy and Media Literacy are two of the pillars of SLW! In additional to Jeff’s podcast comments (above), here are more helps:
Financial Literacy Month official site
“SLW! Recommends” Literacy Project on Financial Literacy/Consumerism
Financial Literacy Month? Don’t Be Fooled: A solution to this ongoing crisis is emerging courtesy of the FoolProof Foundation’s Walter Cronkite Project. The project is offering a financial literacy curriculum that works. It is free, no strings attached — right now, to all teachers and educators. The curriculum is extensive — it offers up to 22 hours of financial literacy training, all turn-key for the teacher/mentor.
Making a Difference: Being Wise with Money using the Save-Spend-Share formula. Thrivent Financial is the nation’s largest fraternal organization. A merger of Lutheran Brotherhood and Aid Association for Lutherans, Thrivent now serves all Christians and distributes part of its profits through its members to any qualified 501-c-3, non-profit organization. (Disclaimer: Rita and I have all our retirement funds in Thrivent. Thrivent does not distribute funds to organizations that it considers “divisive.”)
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What’s NOW with SLW!
- Alternative Easter Ideas
- Personal Good Friday Reflection on “Father, into your hands, I commit my spirit.”
- Holy Week – Online I offer free resources for the 40 days of Lent that center around Alternatives’ legacy resources based on Liturgical Year B (Mark) — two 40-day calendars, two study guides and numerous articles from Worship Alternatives.
- Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? is an expanding, free collection of alternative resources for Lent/Holy/Week/Easter. This year it features ten lenten blogs by author, speaker, workshop leader Susan Vogt, guest on two recent episodes of SLW! Podcast. Part One || Part Two || Susan’s Site: marriage, parenting, spirituality, leadership, workshops, books, about Susan. || Contribute to Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? online. | Submission Guidelines
- Alternative Ash Wed. and Lent, Feb. 18-April 4
- MORE Free Lent/Easter Alternative Resources
- PASSOVER Seder
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – April
- Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index
What’s Coming
What’s Happened
- Simple Living Works! Podcast
- SLW! Podcast Episode 41 – Sarah van Gelder, co-founder and editor-in-chief of YES! Magazine, and author of Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference. YES! reframes the biggest problems of our time in terms of their solutions. Online and in print, YES! outlines a path forward with in-depth analysis, tools for citizen engagement, and stories about real people working for a better world.
- Episode 40 – Joel Zaslofsky, the Chief Simplifier, Curator, and Founder at Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time Money and Talent. He also hosts the popular Smart and Simple Matters show. His recent book is Experience Curating: How to Gain Focus, Increase Influence and Simply Your Life. He organizes the annual SimpleREV Movement & Conference — Revive and Rev It Up! + All Things SimpleREV Podcast.
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
What Others Are Doing
- The 50 Day Challenge kicks off Easter Sunday, April 5th. Simplify. Give. Change. The Overflow Project encourages simple living and generous giving in order to change lives. This year, your participation in the 50-Day Challenge will make a difference in your daily life and also change lives in eleven villages of the Laputta area of the Ayeyarwaddy Region in Myanmar. Join the 50-Day challenge today! 100% of funds donated from the 50-Day Challenge will go to partner with World Concern in supporting clean water, sanitation and health needs, and cyclone shelters in this region.
- New Easter Resource for parents from colleague Paul Canavese at The Pastoral Center (incorporating some content from Alternatives)
- The Common Good Podcast
Episode 58 :: Veronica Lozada: Lawyer Defending Common Person vs. Powers in Mexico - Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals || Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show
- Godspace for Lent 2015: Seven Tips for Creating Sacred Space for Lent || 5 Ways to Foster Creativity in Kids During Lent || Get Creative and Play Games in Lent
- Colleague Kevin Tupper’s new Christian Simplicity site is starting a new discussion using Mark Scandrette’s book, “FREE: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most.” He welcomes anyone to join in.
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3).
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 Feedback@SimpleLivingWorks.org [or SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com or SimpleLivingWorks2@gmail.com], leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
IMAGES: Clyde Griffith and Joel Yeager
For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 * (847) 690-9410 * archives@elca.org
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away at least 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations – Christmas, birthdays, etc. — to local, national and international causes.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index. To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog several times a week.
Lent Preview — Holy Week
Posted on: March 28, 2015
Cross-Roads
Holy Week – Online I offer free resources for the 40 days of Lent that center around Alternatives’ legacy resources based on Liturgical Year B (Mark). For a gentle daily reminder, follow me on Twitter or Linked-In.
Two 40-day calendars:
And two study guides that include weekly reflections and activities:
- Learning to Live by God’s Truth
This Week
3/29-Palm/Passion Sunday (6th Sunday in Lent): Read calendar & reflection from your chosen guide
3/30-Mon.: Read calendar for day 35 & activities for Palm/Passion Sunday, select one to do
3/31-Tues.: Read calendar for day 36 & Prayer to an Outrageous God
4/1-Wed.: Read calendar day 37 & Giving Away Our Lives
4/2-Maundy Thursday: Read calendar & Hope
4/3-Good Friday: Read calendar & The Dead Space +ART
4/4-Holy Saturday/Easter Vigil: Read calendar day 40 & Easter Catches Me Off Guard +ART
4/5-Easter Sunday/Festival of the Resurrection: Read calendar, reflection and activities for the day.
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What’s NOW with SLW!
- Simple Living Works! Podcast
- SLW! Podcast Episode 41 – Sarah van Gelder, co-founder and editor-in-chief of YES! Magazine, and author of Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference. YES! reframes the biggest problems of our time in terms of their solutions. Online and in print, YES! outlines a path forward with in-depth analysis, tools for citizen engagement, and stories about real people working for a better world.
- Episode 40 – Joel Zaslofsky, the Chief Simplifier, Curator, and Founder at Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time Money and Talent. He also hosts the popular Smart and Simple Matters show. His recent book is Experience Curating: How to Gain Focus, Increase Influence and Simply Your Life. He organizes the annual SimpleREV Movement & Conference — Revive and Rev It Up! + All Things SimpleREV Podcast.
- Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? is an expanding, free collection of alternative resources for Lent/Holy/Week/Easter. This year it features ten lenten blogs by author, speaker, workshop leader Susan Vogt, guest on two recent episodes of SLW! Podcast. Part One || Part Two || Susan’s Site: marriage, parenting, spirituality, leadership, workshops, books, about Susan. || Contribute to Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? online. | Submission Guidelines
- Alternative Ash Wed. and Lent, Feb. 18-April 4
- MORE Free Lent/Easter Alternative Resources
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – April
- Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index
What’s Coming
- SLW! Podcast April 1: Clyde Griffith of NewCelebrations.com–Preview complete episode now
- SLW! Podcast April 15: Jeff Yeager, the Ultimate Cheapskate — Preview complete episode now
- Waging Peace at Tax Time
What’s Happened
- Lent Preview – Week FIVE
- Lent Preview – Week FOUR
- Lent Preview – Week THREE
- Lent Preview – Week TWO
- Lent Preview – Week ONE
- Lent Preview – Week ZERO
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
What Others Are Doing
- NEW Easter Resource for parents from colleague Paul Canavese at The Pastoral Center
- The Common Good Podcast
Episode 57: Marco Tavanti on Sustainable Development - Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals || Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show
- Godspace for Lent 2015: Seven Tips for Creating Sacred Space for Lent || 5 Ways to Foster Creativity in Kids During Lent || Get Creative and Play Games in Lent
- Colleague Kevin Tupper’s new Christian Simplicity site is starting a new discussion using Mark Scandrette’s book, “FREE: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most.” He welcomes anyone to join in.
- Lenten Reflection: Thinking about food in a time of fasting
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3).
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 Feedback@SimpleLivingWorks.org [or SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com or SimpleLivingWorks2@gmail.com], leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
IMAGE: Spirit of Simplicity: Quotes & Art #3-A329
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.
YES!
Posted on: March 24, 2015
SLW! Podcast Episode 41 – Sarah van Gelder, co-founder and editor-in-chief of YES! Magazine, and author of Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference.
Sarah and author David Korten founded YES! 18 years ago. Now in addition to an excellent, award-winning quarterly Magazine, YES! has a dynamic web site, and reaches out through social media. Under the banner “Powerful Ideas, Practical Actions,” YES! Magazine reframes the biggest problems of our time in terms of their solutions. Online and in print, YES! outlines a path forward with in-depth analysis, tools for citizen engagement, and stories about real people working for a better world.
YES! focuses on Peace and Justice, People power, the planet, happiness, a new economy, commonomics, climate in our hands. YES! produces resources for teachers and runs an online store. YES! is non-profit, independent, reader supported without advertising, produced by the Positive Futures Network.
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What’s NOW with SLW!
- Lent Week 5 – Online I offer free resources for the 40 days of Lent that center around Alternatives’ legacy resources based on Liturgical Year B (Mark). For a gentle daily reminder, follow me on Twitter or Linked-In.Two 40-day calendars:
And two study guides that include weekly reflections and activities:
- Learning to Live by God’s Truth
- Simple Living Works! Podcast
Episode 40 – Joel Zaslofsky || Joel’s one of my first guests not of my generation, one of the young adult champions of simple living today. Joel is the Chief Simplifier, Curator, and Founder at Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time Money and Talent. He also hosts the popular Smart and Simple Matters show. His recent book is Experience Curating: How to Gain Focus, Increase Influence and Simply Your Life. He organizes the annual SimpleREV Movement & Conference — Revive and Rev It Up! + All Things SimpleREV Podcast. - Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? is an expanding, free collection of alternative resources for Lent/Holy/Week/Easter. This year it features ten lenten blogs by author, speaker, workshop leader Susan Vogt. Susan is also our interviewee on two recent episodes of SLW! Podcast. Part One || Part Two || Susan’s Site: marriage, parenting, spirituality, leadership, workshops, books, about Susan. || Contribute to Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? online. | Submission Guidelines
- Alternative Ash Wed. and Lent, Feb. 18-April 4
- MORE Free Lent/Easter Alternative Resources
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – March
- Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index
What’s Coming
- SLW! Podcast April 1 -Clyde Griffith of NewCelebrations.com (preview episode 42 now)
- SLW! Podcast April 15-Jeff Yeager, the Ultimate Cheapskate
- Waging Peace at Tax Time
What’s Happened
- Lent Preview – Week FOUR
- Lent Preview – Week THREE
- Lent Preview – Week TWO
- Lent Preview – Week ONE
- Lent Preview – Week ZERO
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
What Others Are Doing
- NEW Easter Resource for parents from colleague Paul Canavese at The Pastoral Center
- The Common Good Podcast
Episode 57: Marco Tavanti on Sustainable Development - Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals || Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show
- Godspace for Lent 2015: Seven Tips for Creating Sacred Space for Lent || 5 Ways to Foster Creativity in Kids During Lent || Get Creative and Play Games in Lent
- Colleague Kevin Tupper’s new Christian Simplicity site is starting a new discussion using Mark Scandrette’s book, “FREE: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most.” He welcomes anyone to join in.
- Lenten Reflection: Thinking about food in a time of fasting
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3).
Episode Index
Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent).
SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments at the bottom of Show Notes, then check ‘Notify me of new posts by email.’ Please rate us in iTunes and leave a review. Send us your email address to receive the free monthly SLW! eNews. Remember to like us on Facebook. Urge your friends to do the same.
Do your friends a favor. Share our blog and podcast.
Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest. Share your thoughts on our podcast and blogs. Email Feedback AT SimpleLivingWorks DOT org [or SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com or SimpleLivingWorks2@gmail.com], leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
IMAGE: YES! Magazine
For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 * (847) 690-9410 * archives@elca.org
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away at least 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations – Christmas, birthdays, etc. — to local, national and international causes.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index. To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog several times a week.
Lent Preview — Week FIVE
Posted on: March 21, 2015
Online I offer free resources for the 40 days of Lent that center around Alternatives’ legacy resources based on Liturgical Year B (Mark). For a gentle daily reminder, follow me on Twitter or Linked-In.
Two 40-day calendars:
And two study guides that include weekly reflections and activities:
- Learning to Live by God’s Truth
This Week
3/22-5th Sunday in Lent: Read calendar & reflection for this day in your chosen series
3/23-Mon., Lent Day 29: Read calendar & activities, select one to do
3/24-Tues., Lent Day 30: Read calendar & Who Do I Hate?
3/25-Wed., Lent Day 31: Read calendar & A Confession for Holy Week
3/26-Thur., Lent Day 32: Read calendar & Mixed Feelings: Reflections on Holy Week
3/27-Fri., Lent Day 33: Read calendar & Passover Seder & Easter Seder (meal) | BLOG
3/28-Sat., Lent Day 34: Read calendar & catch-up on an item you may have missed during the week
3/29-Palm/Passion Sunday: Read calendar & reflection for this day in your chosen series.
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Subscribe to SLW! Blog
Click “+Follow” at lower right of blog post, enter a name and email address. Welcome!
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What’s NOW with SLW!
-
Simple Living Works! Podcast
Episode 40 – Joel Zaslofsky || Joel’s one of my first guests not of my generation, one of the young adult champions of simple living today. Joel is the Chief Simplifier, Curator, and Founder at Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time Money and Talent. He also hosts the popular Smart and Simple Matters show. His recent book is Experience Curating: How to Gain Focus, Increase Influence and Simply Your Life. He organizes the annual SimpleREV Movement & Conference — Revive and Rev It Up! + All Things SimpleREV Podcast.
Episode 41 – Sarah van Gelder, co-founder and editor-in-chief of YES! Magazine, and author of Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference.
- Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? is an expanding, free collection of alternative resources for Lent/Holy/Week/Easter. This year it features ten lenten blogs by author, speaker, workshop leader Susan Vogt. Susan is also our interviewee on two episodes of SLW! Podcast. Part One || Part Two || Susan’s Site: marriage, parenting, spirituality, leadership, workshops, books, about Susan. || Contribute to Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? online. | Submission Guidelines
- Alternative Ash Wed. and Lent, Feb. 18-April 4
- MORE Free Lent/Easter Alternative Resources
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – March
- Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index
What’s Coming
What’s Happened
- Lent Preview – Week FOUR
- Lent Preview – Week THREE
- Lent Preview – Week TWO
- Lent Preview – Week ONE
- Lent Preview – Week ZERO
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
What Others Are Doing
- NEW Easter Resource for parents from colleague Paul Canavese at The Pastoral Center
- The Common Good Podcast
Episode 57: Marco Tavanti on Sustainable Development - Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals || Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show
- Godspace for Lent 2015: Seven Tips for Creating Sacred Space for Lent || 5 Ways to Foster Creativity in Kids During Lent || Get Creative and Play Games in Lent
- Colleague Kevin Tupper’s new Christian Simplicity site is starting a new discussion using Mark Scandrette’s book, “FREE: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most.” He welcomes anyone to join in.
- Lenten Reflection: Thinking about food in a time of fasting
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3).
Episode Index
Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent).
SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments at the bottom of Show Notes, then check ‘Notify me of new posts by email.’ Please rate us in iTunes and leave a review. Send us your email address to receive the free monthly SLW! eNews. Remember to like us on Facebook. Urge your friends to do the same.
Do your friends a favor. Share our blog and podcast.
Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest. Share your thoughts on our podcast and blogs. Email Feedback AT SimpleLivingWorks DOT org [or SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com or SimpleLivingWorks2@gmail.com], leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
IMAGE: Spirit of Simplicity: Quotes & Art #3-A0342
For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 * (847) 690-9410 * archives@elca.org
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away at least 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations – Christmas, birthdays, etc. — to local, national and international causes.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index. To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog several times a week.
Lent Preview — Week FOUR
Posted on: March 14, 2015
“It’s not all eggs and new life, is it?”
Half Way Through Lent
Online I offer free resources for the 40 days of Lent that center around Alternatives’ legacy resources based on Liturgical Year B (Mark). For a gentle daily reminder, follow me on Twitter or Linked-In.
Two 40-day calendars:
And two study guides that include weekly reflections and activities:
- Learning to Live by God’s Truth
This Week
3/15-Fourth Sunday in Lent: Read guide & reflection for this day in your chosen series.
3/16-Mon., Day 23: Read Guide & activities, select one to do
3/17-Tues., Day 24: Read Guide & Forgive and Forget by Susan Vogt
3/18-Wed., Day 25: Read Guide & Can You Eat on Four by Susan Vogt
3/19-Thur., Day 26: Read Guide & Some Thoughts About Eating and Drinking by Katie Cook
3/20-Fri., Day 27: Read Guide & Spirits Collide: A Conversation with Isaiah 35 (A Reading for a People in Exile) by Ken Sehested
3/21-Sat., Day 28: Read guide & catch-up on an item you may have missed during the week.
3/22-Fifth Sunday in Lent: Read guide & reflection for this day in your chosen series.
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Subscribe to SLW! Blog
Click “+Follow” at lower right of blog post, enter a name and email address. Welcome!
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What’s NOW with SLW!
-
Simple Living Works! Podcast
Episode 40 – Joel Zaslofsky || Joel’s one of my first guests not of my generation, one of the young adult champions of simple living today. Joel is the Chief Simplifier, Curator, and Founder at Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time Money and Talent. He also hosts the popular Smart and Simple Matters show. His recent book is Experience Curating: How to Gain Focus, Increase Influence and Simply Your Life. He organizes the annual SimpleREV Movement & Conference — Revive and Rev It Up! + All Things SimpleREV Podcast.
Episode 41 – Sarah van Gelder, co-founder and editor-in-chief of YES! Magazine, and author of Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference.
- Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? is an expanding, free collection of alternative resources for Lent/Holy/Week/Easter. This year it features ten lenten blogs by author, speaker, workshop leader Susan Vogt. Susan is also our interviewee on two episodes of SLW! Podcast. Part One || Part Two || Susan’s Site: marriage, parenting, spirituality, leadership, workshops, books, about Susan. || Contribute to Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? online. | Submission Guidelines
- Alternative Ash Wed. and Lent, Feb. 18-April 4
- MORE Free Lent/Easter Alternative Resources
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – March
- Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index
What’s Coming
What’s Happened
- Lent Preview – Week THREE
- Lent Preview – Week TWO
- Lent Preview – Week ONE
- Lent Preview – Week ZERO
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
What Others Are Doing
- The Common Good Podcast
Episode 57: Marco Tavanti on Sustainable Development - NEW three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals || Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show
- Godspace for Lent 2015: Seven Tips for Creating Sacred Space for Lent || 5 Ways to Foster Creativity in Kids During Lent || Get Creative and Play Games in Lent
- Colleague Kevin Tupper’s new Christian Simplicity site is starting a new discussion using Mark Scandrette’s book, “FREE: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most.” He welcomes anyone to join in.
- Lenten Reflection: Thinking about food in a time of fasting
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