Episode 117 :: WHOSE Birthday? part 2

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WHOSE Birthday?

This 4-episode series drawn from Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? #19 (loosely based on lectionary cycle C) is Simple Living Works’s annual Advent/Christmas/Epiphany resource for individuals, families and congregations.

We’re starting our non-consumer Christmas campaign early this year with episodes mid-month during the last four months of the year. HINT: If don’t want to wait, you can listen to and/or read each item at the links below.

To find resources referenced in each episode, go to the links in the TEXT version of each item. All the items are linked below. Or use the search engine in window #4 at SimpleLivingWorks.org.

10 Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas | SPANISH: 10 puntas

Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (index + selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

#116, Part 1 (9/15/18)

“WHOSE Birthday?” How-to

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1. What Happened to Christmas? (p.4)
2. Why a Simpler Christmas? (p.4)
3. Let Us Have a Truly Christ-like Christmas (p.5)
4. Weekly Family Time: How to Use These Reflections & Activities (p.5)
5. Top 10 Uses of Whose Birthday?– More Exciting, Helpful Ways to Use Whose Birthday? – Going Beyond Whose Birthday? (p.2, or p.17 in some versions)
*6. Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn)

Read BONUS Items at Whose Birthday? #19. They are not recorded nor included in the booklet.

Also Mentioned–Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold)

#117, Part 2 (10/15/18)

INSPIRING REFLECTIONS (with discussion questions)

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8. My Hand-Make Advent Wreath (p.7) – Amy Frykholm
9. I Am a Recovering Christmas Hater (p.8) – Jessica Stevens
10. Strangers Invited in for Christmas (p.9) – Millard Fuller, Founder of Habitat for Humanity and Founder and President of The Fuller Center for Housing
11. A Christmas Cow (p.10) – Walter Wink
12. Putting Christ in Christmas (p.11) – John Hagberg
13. Christmas Dinner (p.12) – Jamie Norwich-McLennan
14. “Posada sin Fronteras” (Shelter out Borders) (p.13) – Ched Myers

#118, Part 3 (11/15/18)

Inspiring Reflections

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7. The Spirit of St. Nicholas (p.6) – David Holden

*15. God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

FUN ACTIVITIES

16. There’s a Camel in our Bathroom! (p.14) – Nancy Christenson
17. Giving Circles (p.15) – Meg Cox.
18. Gifts of Kindness (p.18) – Becky White
19. Reducing Christmas Chaos (p.19) – Ann Dieleman
20. Enough, Already! (p.19) Mary Sharon Moore

#119, Part 4 (12/15/18)

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21. Christmas Year-round (p.20) – Gail McDonough
22. Discover NO COST Gifts! (p.21) – Richard L. Haid
23. New Cards from Old (p.22) – Gretchen Denton
24. Peace in Any Language (p.23) – Jerry Wrenn
25. St. Nicholas on Parade (p.24) – Rev. Celine A. Burke
26. New Christmas Traditions You Can Share (p.24) – Karen Boe
*27. O Baby Born in Bethlehem (Christmas hymn)
28. About Alternatives (pp. 3 & 25)

* from Sing Justice! Do Justice! collection – Diana Wooley, vocalist; Richard Steinbach, piano

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Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections IndexAdvent/Christmas/Epiphany 

Spanish Advent-Christmas Resources

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WHOSE Birthday? #30, online edition for 2018.

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Carols with Justice – Entire collection of 15 carols (new words to familiar tunes) as text and audio || Jill Miller and DeeEtta Riley || Pageant based on these carols

Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (index + selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast

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The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE

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