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Paul and spouse Ann contributed to the Wedding Alternatives Supplement. They hosted Rita and I on a speaking tour. Read the notes of that visit at Post #58.

EPISODE TOPICS

• Advent resources
• Personal life: our backyard garden, chickens, bees, community sidewalk garden.
• Paul’s message series on Gospel.Link – ways of creatively engaging people and faith communities on daily life spirituality, through a bunch of leader and participant resources.  Some have been closely related to simple living.
• His new set of small group series on the Spirituality of Work, for seven different occupations.  It includes various topics; the last session of each is work/life balance.
• As a Catholic publisher, The Pastoral Center loves talking about Pope Francis and Catholic social justice documents. Pope Francis has been a big advocate for living more simply and in closer solidarity with the poor — and doing so with joy!  So Paul creates resources to help get that message out. Pope Francis is working on a much anticipated encyclical on ecology. Paul will definitely have resources to help faith communities study and reflect on it once it’s released.
• Ann and Paul have also become the co-directors of Growing Up Catholic  which reaches out to Catholic families.  This also has a simplicity aspect, encouraging families to re-learn how to have supper together and spend time with each other.
• Paul also heads up GospelLiving.org.
• Paul helped Jubilee-Economics.org recover from a serious hack, including The Common Good Podcast, which I co-host and produce.

Relevant Pastoral Center links:

• Advent eResources, included Simply Advent by Paul, incorporating some SLW! resources.
• Free online series, including “Faith@Work” and “The World As It Should Be” at Gospel.link
• Spirituality of Work resources from The Pastoral Center, including small group resources for seven occupations at http://www.ThePastoralCenter.com
• Family and parenting resources at GrowingUpCatholic.com
• Resources supporting Pope Francis’ Joy of the Gospel, including “The Joy of Just Living: Living simply, sustainably, and in solidarity with the poor”
• Other Simple Living and Ecology resources
• Simply Advent handouts, inserts for-a-simpler-more-faith-filled-advent-eresource.Paul
  Ministry Support at The Pastoral Center
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  More Advent/Christmas Resources

• UNPLUG the Christmas Machine Workshop | Guides to Organize Festivals | Consumo Must Go! | Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? | Many More!
  

  Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

  Coming

  • Oct. 15 podcast — Bob Sitze, author, blogger
  • Nov.-Dec. – new “WHOSE Birthday?” Podcast series. Podcast Index, including “WHOSE Birthday?” 2013.

  Mentions in Earlier Episodes

  Episode 29: Brian “Wolt” Wolters and the  Overflow Project, plus blog and resources | 50-Day Challenge | my blog SIMPLIFY + GIVE + CHANGE = WATER
  Recent Responses to all SLW! media with links

  Tom & Christine Sine of Mustard Seed Associates // Rita and I were interviewed by Christine for her Godspace blog. I’ve published the my notes of our group discussion (Post #293) at Mustard Seed Associates, as I did with the notes from my speaking tours through 40+ states (including my first visit to MSA, post #168).

  Tom is the author of the best-seller Mustard Seed Conspiracy. He gave me a copy of his recent The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time. He blogs. He also wrote a series of Advent/Christmas reflections for Alternatives. Christine wrote The Search for Meaning: Beyond a Commercialized World (available in text or podcast). She has written several books about faith formation and gardening.

  They are building the Mustard Seed Associates educational eco-village on an island on the coast of Washington state.

  Justice at the Table Workshop, Sat., October 18th, 2014, 9:30am-4 pm, facilitated by Andy Wade, explores the intricate connections between our faith, fellowship, and the food we eat. Not only will we will challenge ourselves and each other to bring our eating and buying practices more in line with our beliefs, we will also draft a “Justice at the Table Plan” to help us implement those changes!

  SoCap Conference – Social Capital Markets

  Check out Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists, especially chapter 3: events. You may want to add to it, as several folks have.

  SLW! Recommends Literacy Service

  This service contains books (paper, eBooks, audio), video (DVD, internet), audio (CD, MP3), blogs, podcasts, sites. These are somewhat current resources. For classic resources, visit Study/Activity/Action Guides.

  For more ideas, go to Getting Started. Also see Champions of Simple Living and other worthwhile Links.

  • Looking ahead to Advent/Christmas and back to Easter season, you may have something to contribute to our on-going collection Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? for Lent/HolyWeek/Easter and to our most widely-read annual resource, Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? for Advent/Christmas/Epiphany. Though it’s no longer printed on paper, “WHOSE Birthday?” is published online since 2012. Some editions also come in AUDIO formats. ART | PERSONAL EXPERIENCES | FAMILY ACTIVITIES | Submission Guidelines | All past editions are available on the SLW! site. Thanks to Creative Commons licensing, individuals and congregations can reprint articles without further permission. The articles are carefully indexed —  ADVENT/CHRISTMAS |LENT/EASTER.
  • Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – October

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  The complete 3-1/2 hour straight talk between Tony Campolo and Shane Claiborne about simple living and global justice. Parts of that dialog became the DVD “Simply Enough,” which has been re-issued by World Vision Canada as “Choose Justice.” The complete series — episodes 20-27 – including Show Notes.

  Champions of Simple Living Today

  Vicki Robin, Cecile Andrews and more!

  Simple Living blog/site preview service

  I hope that you can see the values of the following free resources and will use them as needed, or even better, acquaint yourself with them now so that you’re prepared for your next event.

  Treasury of Celebrations: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth, the last edition of the classic series Alternate Celebrations Catalogs.

  • Introduction and Preface
  • Part 1: Making Choices: Simple Living | Gift Giving | Food and Celebration | Getting Started
  • Part 2: Gifts
  • Part 3: Celebrations: Jan-Apr | May-Aug | Sep-Dec | Advent | Christmas
  • Part 4: Rites of Passage, such as birthdays, anniversaries and funerals

  We have covered much of this resource in earlier episodes.

  To LISTEN, visit the Episode Index.

  Jubilee Economics colleague Lee Van Ham’s new book Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, part of The OneEarth Project.

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  MORE Mentions in Earlier Episodes

  • Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold) | Share the Joy of a Simpler Lifestyle Through Speeches, Workshops, Events, Study/Action Groups, Simplicity Circles and Social Media + BONUS: Social Media Supplement – Jerry’s Excellent Adventure
  • Self-Starters Needed!
  • Free coaching for groups on the internet

  Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections Index: Advent/Christmas/Epiphany | Lent/Easter | Other Seasons | Anytime/Non-Seasonal | Music | Art | Audio | Video | Spanish | Living More with Less

  Spirit of Simplicity: Quotes and Art for Simpler Living and Global Justice ( Foreword by Cecile Andrews | Introduction | How to Use This Collection | QUOTES | ART )  | En Español (all)

  • Bring Simpler Living to Your Group!
  • Testimonials/Feedback/Comments/Response
  • Simple Living Works! web site home page | Themes/Seasons Index
  • 10 Tips for Simpler, More Meaningful Celebrations | SPANISH: 10 puntas

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  *GRAPHIC: Paul, Ann and family (The Pastoral Center)

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