vol. 8, num. 10 :: 2009.05.08 — 2009.05.22
If we’re faithful, God will bless us with material wealth. If we’re faithful, we will live in voluntary poverty. Christians past and present argue and live both of these positions with equal tenacity…so what is abundance and what is its relationship to scarcity? What does prosperity look like in the Kingdom of God?
On making a counter-intuitive move in a time of tightening belts.
Or "how I learned to stop worrying and love abundance."
How the marriage of simplicity and stashing survives under the same roof.
Remembering the Barter Sale at boarding school in Pakistan and the lessons it's still teaching.
A new angle on abundance shapes a shift in relationship.
On reorienting our desires toward an incomprehensible mystery.
Your opportunity to contribute thoughts about abundance and scarcity.
A review of the book Enough: Contentment in An Age of Excess by Will Samson.
A review of the young adult novel Genius Squad by Catherine Jinks.
A review of d. Guillaume Canet's film Tell No One.
Thinking about abundance in a new way inspires a new and evolving vision for relationships.
A prophetic prayer to feed the hungry in our communities and around the world.
What is the difference between keeping and possessing?
Walter Brueggeman traces the history of abundance and scarcity as ways of being through the biblical narrative.
Christine Sine on experiencing -- and being -- God’s generosity in times of financial uncertainty.
Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice
the life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural correction is to make intent
of accident. To get back before dark
is the art of going.
Wendell Berry
“Traveling at Home” from Traveling at Home
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