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• Building Community

  What does the Bible say about our responsibility to build community?

• Enough is enough

  A new book by Arthur Simon challenges Christians to develop a response to rampant consumerism.

• The emperor has only clothes

  How would the famous story change in a contemporary Western context?

• The joy of collecting?dust

  Gathering stuff put in the perspective of life in the Creator.

• Judgment calls

  What the world teaches us about the labels we place on ourselves.

• Simplify

  On what a closet-cleaning can teach about spiritual discipline.

• Money and stuff

  On discovering a biblical approach to fundraising.

• The clarity of a dumpster

  Could filling a roll-off be considered a spiritual discipline?

• Open hands

  A meditation on the idea that we who have freely received should freely give.

• We are what we keep

  What is the difference between keeping and possessing?

• On being a loser at 30

  An older self and a younger self in dialogue about (dis)contentment.