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Episode 117 :: WHOSE Birthday? part 2

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To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index.  SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunesStitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.

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

TEXT

AUDIO

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)

TEXT

AUDIO

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

TEXT

AUDIO

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)

TEXT

AUDIO

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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In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our twice-a-month podcast. The content is different, though the subject is the same. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

Welcome to the other podcast I co-host/produce, The Common Good Podcast.

Earlier Episodes

10/1/18 Bonus :: Casady’s at the Calif. Climate Summit

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SHOW NOTES

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index.  SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunesStitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.

The Common Good Podcast #100–Actions on Climate Science When National Decision-Makers Are Hostile and Big Business Won’t Do Nearly Enough

Listeners, you may have heard of the climate summit held this past Sep 12-14 in San Francisco.  What happened there? Our conversation today is with two people who were there: Derek and Nancy Casady. Oh, and what’s Al Gore doing these days? Hopefully you saw his 2006 documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.”  We’ll also hear about Gore’s recent conference in Los Angeles.

This program is entitled “Actions on Climate Science When National Leaders Are Hostile and Big Business Won’t Do Nearly Enough”

Not only fail us, but work against us.

Even at the state level, in too many cases decision-makers are not acting to protect and serve the people. Take the example of North Carolina. Legislators there voted in 2012 to ban the use of a report that showed the ocean could rise as much as 39 inches by 2100.

But then there are the stories coming out of San Francisco, Sep. 8 and then Sep 12-14.  Some governors, mayors, and businesses are living by a different narrative.

Article by Oliver Milman in The Guardian, Thursday, Sep. 27, 2018

“It’s extraordinarily challenging to get to the 1.5C target and we are nowhere near on track to doing that,” said Drew Shindell, a Duke University climate scientist and a co-author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which will be unveiled in South Korea next month.

“While it’s technically possible, it’s extremely improbable, absent a real sea change in the way we evaluate risk. We are nowhere near that.”

In the 2015 Paris climate pact, international leaders agreed to curb the global temperature rise to 2C above the era prior to mass industrialization, with an aspiration to limit this to 1.5C. The world has already warmed by around 1C over the past century, fueling sea level rises, heatwaves, storms and the decline of vulnerable ecosystems such as coral reefs.

Derek & Nancy Casady were our guests a year ago on TCGP #91 telling of their experience with The Climate Mobilization. Then they said. “Climate Crises Are Moving Fast! They’re Big! And They Require a WWII Size Mobilization.” In this episode they share their most recent experiences.

The Common Good Feature: GrowthBusters is a movie, a blog, a podcast, over 100 short YouTube videos–the products of Dave Gardner and his small staff. It has a lot in common with Jubilee OneEarth Economics and Simple Living Works! It deals with ECONOMIC GROWTH, OVERPOPULATION, URBAN GROWTH, OVERCONSUMPTION and Media Bias toward unsustainable growth. Visit GrowthBusters.org and consider sponsoring a showing the movie Growthbusters: Hooked on Growth (2013) in your community.

In the next TCGP episode (11/15/18) we’ll hear from two women leading Jubilee Circles in Mexico. I recorded our conversation on my recent trip to Mexico to address a class there about Jubilee Economics.

NOTE: the sound quality of the interview portion of this episode is subpar but the content is strong. Please be patient.

WHOSE Birthday?

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.

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.

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

TEXT

AUDIO

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)

TEXT

AUDIO

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

TEXT

AUDIO

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

TEXT

AUDIO

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

* * *

WHOSE Birthday? #30, online edition for 2018.

* * *

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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In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our twice-a-month podcast. The content is different, though the subject is the same. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

Welcome to the other podcast I co-host/produce, The Common Good Podcast.

More Earlier Episodes

  • Jay Moses–How a Local Church Invites in Multiple Faiths to Influence One Another
  • Grace Gyori, from Christian imperialism to liberation for all–a missionary’s journey (NOTE: Our new system plays automatically. To pause the audio, click pause on the player at the bottom of the Show Notes.)

Episode 116 :: WHOSE Birthday? part 1

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Simple Living Works! Podcast

SHOW NOTES

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index.  SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunesStitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.

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

TEXT

AUDIO

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)

TEXT

AUDIO

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

TEXT

AUDIO

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

TEXT

AUDIO

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

* * *

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

Spanish Advent-Christmas Resources

* * *

WHOSE Birthday? #30, online edition for 2018.

* * *

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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In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our twice-a-month podcast. The content is different, though the subject is the same. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

Welcome to the other podcast I co-host/produce, The Common Good Podcast.

Earlier Episodes

Bonus 9/1/18 Episode: Jay Moses—How a Local Church Invites in Multiple Faiths to Influence One Another

Simpler OneEarth Living Podcast*

SHOW NOTES

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index. (NOTE: Our new system plays automatically. To pause the audio, click pause on the player at the bottom.) SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.

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Jay Moses

Hope Presbyterian Church, Wheaton, IL

All faiths teach love. But the practice of love is often too weak to overcome cultural and political differences that tear societies apart, leaving people and other species destroyed.

It’s equally true that the story of different faiths cannot be told without speaking of the many times love transcends differences and solidifies united actions for justice, peace, and the common good.

This story of how faith differences divide, but just as surely how they come together in ways that transform people, societies, and the faiths themselves is the focus of this podcast. *And it can happen in a local congregation.* That’s what you’re about to hear in this conversation with Jay Moses, pastor of Hope Church (a Presbyterian congregation), in Wheaton, Illinois. Interviewing Jay was special for me (Lee) since I pastored Hope Church between 1989 and 1999.

Our “Common Good Feature” in this episode tells how Latino activism, especially through the Brown Berets, works for the common good from a position of being suppressed by the dominant systems of U.S. society.

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Previous Episodes

Grace Gyori: From Christian Imperialism to Liberation for All—A Missionary’s Journey

Over the years, religious missionary endeavors have too often proceeded alongside the the imperialist and colonialist impetus of nations. But many missionaries and missionary agencies have changed completely away from such entanglement of faith with colonialism or imperialism. This podcast tells how those changes came about in the life of Grace Gyori. Grace was born to parents of missionaries to China. They were incredibly adventurous, oriented to the service of humanity, and also unconscious of the larger colonial and imperial geopolitical picture. She married Tom Gyori and the two became missionaries with the Presbyterian Church USA in Guatemala.

Lee got to know Grace Gyori in the 1990’s. She and Tom were early founders of Jubilee Economics Ministries. Tom died in 2016. In Guatemala, Grace and Tom were not there to evangelize but to work alongside of the local leaders. Their spirit was not imperial, but liberationist, seeking justice for all, giving up the notion that one had to be Christian or that others were inferior. Instead, they understood that a missionary was a cross-cultural bridge engaging in important faith-based ministries, participating in mutual benefits as all people and all species are to be treated with respect.

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Fr. John Dear serves as NonViolence Outreach Coordinator for Pace e Bene, which is organizing Campaign NonViolence Week of Action in mid-Sept. Pace e Bene’s  means “Peace and all good!”

He is the author of numerous books, the most recent, “They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace and NonViolence in a Time of Climate Change.”

Founded in 1989 by the Franciscan Friars of California, Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service is now an independent, nondenominational 501(c)3 organization.

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John Dear, Part 1–Responding to Hate, Guns and Bombs with Peace & NonViolence

John Dear, Part 2–Making NonViolence Stronger in a Culture of Violence

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Bill Ryerson of Population Institute and Population Media Center

Episode 112 of SLW! Podcastpart one: Crises Caused by Exploding Population

Episode 97 of The Common Good Podcastpart two: Reducing Human Population through Methods That Work

LEE: Here’s a reminder of the enormous explosion in numbers of humans that have arrived on planet Earth recently. Today, Homo sapiens are by far the top predators on the planet. Our numbers have doubled since 1970—just 48 years ago. During the 20th century, world population grew from 1.65 billion to 6 billion. In this 21st century, the rate of growth is going down, but we’re at 7.6 billion and still going up. Still, in some countries population is going down. What are those countries doing differently? And just what are the most effective ways we’ve found to reduce human population? What would be a healthy, sustainable balance of humans with all other species?

JERRY: I wrote an essay recently called Options to Curb the Two Primary Drivers of the Climate Crisis: OverPopulation and OverConsumption. I began the overpopulation conversation with my interview of John Seager, head of the Population Connection, formerly Zero Population Growth. PART 1 // PART 2

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Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections IndexOther Seasons

The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE

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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.

Simple Living blog/podcast/site preview service

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.

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 // Self-Starters Needed! // Free coaching for groups on the internet

Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections IndexAdvent/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)

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

Jubilee Economics / The OneEarth Project colleague Lee Van Ham’s books Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us and From Ego to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable, both part of The OneEarth Project. || NEW three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals || Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress, including TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 || Lee’s Slide Show || Lee’s new blog series Jubilee Is Bigger Than We’d Thought: Permeates Scripture, Addresses Today’s Crises

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SLW! Ep. 115: Grace Gyori–Moving from Imperialism to Liberation

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Grace Gyori: From Christian Imperialism to Liberation for All—A Missionary’s Journey

Over the years, religious missionary endeavors have too often proceeded alongside the the imperialist and colonialist impetus of nations. But many missionaries and missionary agencies have changed completely away from such entanglement of faith with colonialism or imperialism. This podcast tells how those changes came about in the life of Grace Gyori. Grace was born to parents of missionaries to China. They were incredibly adventurous, oriented to the service of humanity, and also unconscious of the larger colonial and imperial geopolitical picture. She married Tom Gyori and the two became missionaries with the Presbyterian Church USA in Guatemala.

Lee got to know Grace Gyori in the 1990’s. She and Tom were early founders of Jubilee Economics Ministries. Tom died in 2016. In Guatemala, Grace and Tom were not there to evangelize but to work alongside of the local leaders. Their spirit was not imperial, but liberationist, seeking justice for all, giving up the notion that one had to be Christian or that others were inferior. Instead, they understood that a missionary was a cross-cultural bridge engaging in important faith-based ministries, participating in mutual benefits as all people and all species are to be treated with respect.

Also Mentioned

Common Good Feature–National Geographic: Teaching the Common Good

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Previous Episodes

Fr. John Dear serves as NonViolence Outreach Coordinator for Pace e Bene, which is organizing Campaign NonViolence Week of Action in mid-Sept. Pace e Bene’s  means “Peace and all good!”

He is the author of numerous books, the most recent, “They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace and NonViolence in a Time of Climate Change.”

Founded in 1989 by the Franciscan Friars of California, Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service is now an independent, nondenominational 501(c)3 organization.

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John Dear, Part 1–Responding to Hate, Guns and Bombs with Peace & NonViolence

John Dear, Part 2–Making NonViolence Stronger in a Culture of Violence

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Bill Ryerson of Population Institute and Population Media Center

Episode 112 of SLW! Podcastpart one: Crises Caused by Exploding Population

Episode 97 of The Common Good Podcastpart two: Reducing Human Population through Methods That Work

LEE: Here’s a reminder of the enormous explosion in numbers of humans that have arrived on planet Earth recently. Today, Homo sapiens are by far the top predators on the planet. Our numbers have doubled since 1970—just 48 years ago. During the 20th century, world population grew from 1.65 billion to 6 billion. In this 21st century, the rate of growth is going down, but we’re at 7.6 billion and still going up. Still, in some countries population is going down. What are those countries doing differently? And just what are the most effective ways we’ve found to reduce human population? What would be a healthy, sustainable balance of humans with all other species?

JERRY: I wrote an essay recently called Options to Curb the Two Primary Drivers of the Climate Crisis: OverPopulation and OverConsumption. I began the overpopulation conversation with my interview of John Seager, head of the Population Connection, formerly Zero Population Growth. PART 1 // PART 2

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Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections IndexOther Seasons

The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE

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In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

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.

Simple Living blog/podcast/site preview service

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.

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 // Self-Starters Needed! // Free coaching for groups on the internet

Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections IndexAdvent/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)

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

Jubilee Economics / The OneEarth Project colleague Lee Van Ham’s books Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us and From Ego to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable, both part of The OneEarth Project. || NEW three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals || Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress, including TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 || Lee’s Slide Show || Lee’s new blog series Jubilee Is Bigger Than We’d Thought: Permeates Scripture, Addresses Today’s Crises

Share your thoughts on this podcast and this episode. Email SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.

Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Read & subscribe to the SLW! blog. |  Follow us on Pinterest.

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To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — listen to episodes #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, to educate and inspire you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog weekly.

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

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits.

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 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.

Early-Aug. Bonus: John Dear, part 2–Making Nonviolence Stronger in a Culture of Violence

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To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index. SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.

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Fr. John Dear serves as NonViolence Outreach Coordinator for Pace e Bene, which is organizing Campaign NonViolence Week of Action in mid-Sept. Pace e Bene’s  means “Peace and all good!”

He is the author of numerous books, the most recent, “They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace and NonViolence in a Time of Climate Change.”

Founded in 1989 by the Franciscan Friars of California, Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service is now an independent, nondenominational 501(c)3 organization.

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John Dear, Part 1–Responding to Hate, Guns and Bombs with Peace & NonViolence

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Previous Episodes

Bill Ryerson of Population Institute and Population Media Center

Episode 112 of SLW! Podcastpart one: Crises Caused by Exploding Population

Episode 97 of The Common Good Podcastpart two: Reducing Human Population through Methods That Work

LEE: Here’s a reminder of the enormous explosion in numbers of humans that have arrived on planet Earth recently. Today, Homo sapiens are by far the top predators on the planet. Our numbers have doubled since 1970—just 48 years ago. During the 20th century, world population grew from 1.65 billion to 6 billion. In this 21st century, the rate of growth is going down, but we’re at 7.6 billion and still going up. Still, in some countries population is going down. What are those countries doing differently? And just what are the most effective ways we’ve found to reduce human population? What would be a healthy, sustainable balance of humans with all other species?

JERRY: I wrote an essay recently called Options to Curb the Two Primary Drivers of the Climate Crisis: OverPopulation and OverConsumption. I began the overpopulation conversation with my interview of John Seager, head of the Population Connection, formerly Zero Population Growth. PART 1 // PART 2

Early June Bonus–Bonnie Tarwater of Church for Our Common Home: Shifting Spiritual Practices and Congregations to More Earth-Based Ways
In the New Story of OneEarth living, religion and science are in a new relationship pursuing a mutual goal. That goal? Living with all beings in interdependent relationship that sustains life, reverses climate change, and breaks through to new social and economic systems. Now, how is this affecting houses of worship? Faith communities of all stripes? It’s the pursuit of this new interconnection between spirituality and science that led to the interview of this podcast.

That story is the background for this episode. The Church for Our Common Home takes its name from Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Laudato Si’,” which has the ecological subtitle “On Care for Our Common Home.”

Lee’s background blog: Climate Scientist and Theologian Tell How Ecological Crisis Requires New Cooperation between Science and Religion

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Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections IndexOther Seasons

The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE

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In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

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.

Simple Living blog/podcast/site preview service

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.

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 // Self-Starters Needed! // Free coaching for groups on the internet

Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections IndexAdvent/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)

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

Jubilee Economics / The OneEarth Project colleague Lee Van Ham’s books Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us and From Ego to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable, both part of The OneEarth Project. || NEW three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals || Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress, including TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 || Lee’s Slide Show || Lee’s new blog series Jubilee Is Bigger Than We’d Thought: Permeates Scripture, Addresses Today’s Crises

Share your thoughts on this podcast and this episode. Email SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.

Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Read & subscribe to the SLW! blog. |  Follow us on Pinterest.

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments below, then check  

SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunesStitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. 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.

Episode Index

Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist

To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — listen to episodes #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, to educate and inspire you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog weekly.

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

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits.

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 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.

Ep. 114: John Dear on Peace & NonViolence, part 1

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Fr. John Dear serves as NonViolence Outreach Coordinator for Pace e Bene. He is the author of numerous books, the most recent, “They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace and NonViolence in a Time of Climate Change.”

Founded in 1989 by the Franciscan Friars of California, Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service is now an independent, nondenominational 501(c)3 organization.

Pace e Bene’s name derives from St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi who used this phrase in their own time as a form of greeting, which translated from the Italian means “Peace and all good!” So much was expressed by this little phrase: May you have the fullness of well-being, may you be secure and happy; may you not want; may your dignity be respected; may the goodness in your inmost being flourish; may the world in which we live know this deep peace. It was a blessing, a hope, and a way of acknowledging the sacredness of those whom they encountered.

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It is in this spirit that Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service works to mainstream peacemaking that will empower people from all walks of life to prayerfully and relentlessly engage in nonviolent efforts for the well-being of all.

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Previous Episodes

Bill Ryerson of Population Institute and Population Media Center

Episode 112 of SLW! Podcastpart one: Crises Caused by Exploding Population

Episode 97 of The Common Good Podcastpart two: Reducing Human Population through Methods That Work

LEE: Here’s a reminder of the enormous explosion in numbers of humans that have arrived on planet Earth recently. Today, Homo sapiens are by far the top predators on the planet. Our numbers have doubled since 1970—just 48 years ago. During the 20th century, world population grew from 1.65 billion to 6 billion. In this 21st century, the rate of growth is going down, but we’re at 7.6 billion and still going up. Still, in some countries population is going down. What are those countries doing differently? And just what are the most effective ways we’ve found to reduce human population? What would be a healthy, sustainable balance of humans with all other species?

JERRY: I wrote an essay recently called Options to Curb the Two Primary Drivers of the Climate Crisis: OverPopulation and OverConsumption. I began the overpopulation conversation with my interview of John Seager, head of the Population Connection, formerly Zero Population Growth. PART 1 // PART 2

Early June Bonus–Bonnie Tarwater of Church for Our Common Home: Shifting Spiritual Practices and Congregations to More Earth-Based Ways
In the New Story of OneEarth living, religion and science are in a new relationship pursuing a mutual goal. That goal? Living with all beings in interdependent relationship that sustains life, reverses climate change, and breaks through to new social and economic systems. Now, how is this affecting houses of worship? Faith communities of all stripes? It’s the pursuit of this new interconnection between spirituality and science that led to the interview of this podcast.

That story is the background for this episode. The Church for Our Common Home takes its name from Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Laudato Si’,” which has the ecological subtitle “On Care for Our Common Home.”

Lee’s background blog: Climate Scientist and Theologian Tell How Ecological Crisis Requires New Cooperation between Science and Religion

A 3-part series:

** SLW! episode 111: part 1, Susan Taylor of Just Money Advisors about her book “What About Our Money: A Faith Response” — Wrestling with Systems Where Money Is Boss

** TCGP #95: Susan part 2 on Matters of the Heart

** In mid-May, SLW! #112: Susan part 3 on Giving & Investing

Also hear our earlier conversation with Susan on TCGP Episode 78 : Susan Taylor of Just Money Advisors on Relating to Money in a Toxic Culture and Parenting Children about Money.

The United Methodist Women commissioned Susan to write “What About Our Money? A Faith Response,” so order it from them. https://www.unitedmethodistwomen.org/mission-u/money.

Secondly, get acquainted with Faith and Money Network at their website, faithandmoney.org.

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Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections IndexOther Seasons

The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE

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In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

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.

Simple Living blog/podcast/site preview service

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.

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 // Self-Starters Needed! // Free coaching for groups on the internet

Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections IndexAdvent/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)

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

Jubilee Economics / The OneEarth Project colleague Lee Van Ham’s books Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us and From Ego to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable, both part of The OneEarth Project. || NEW three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals || Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress, including TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 || Lee’s Slide Show || Lee’s new blog series Jubilee Is Bigger Than We’d Thought: Permeates Scripture, Addresses Today’s Crises

Share your thoughts on this podcast and this episode. Email SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.

Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Read & subscribe to the SLW! blog. |  Follow us on Pinterest.

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments below, then check  

SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunesStitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. 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.

Episode Index

Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist

To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — listen to episodes #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, to educate and inspire you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog weekly.

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

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits.

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 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.

Early July Bonus: Bill Ryerson of Population Media Center, part 2–Reducing Population Using Methods That Work

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To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index. SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.

Bill Ryerson of Population Institute and Population Media Center

In episode 97 of The Common Good Podcast, we feature part two of a conversation with Bill Ryerson of the Population Media Center on Reducing Human Population through Methods That Work.

PART ONE: Crises Caused by Exploding Human Population

Here’s a reminder of the enormous explosion in numbers of humans that have arrived on planet Earth recently. Today, Homo sapiens are by far the top predators on the planet. Our numbers have doubled since 1970—just 48 years ago. During the 20th century, world population grew from 1.65 billion to 6 billion. In this 21st century, the rate of growth is going down, but we’re at 7.6 billion and still going up. Still, in some countries population is going down. What are those countries doing differently? And just what are the most effective ways we’ve found to reduce human population? What would be a healthy, sustainable balance of humans with all other species?

JERRY: Friend, colleague and podcast guest, Peter Sawtell from Eco-Justice.org recent wrote to me: 

“Whenever the subject of population comes up, I quote a quip that I heard many years ago. ‘If you want to have unproductive political battles, talk about The Population Problem. If you want to do something about population, work for the education of women, widespread basic health care including contraception, and the elimination of stark poverty.’ Your essay works in that direction in looking for the practical steps to slow population growth.

“As I look back, I’ve written two Commentaries or blogs dealing specifically with population over the years:

  1. The Population Problem
  2. Seven Billion and Rising

“Both of those (and perhaps your document?) are out-of-date in the projections for 2050 population. I’d been referring to figures that looked for a slowing of the growth curve by then, and leveling off at about 9 billion. I’ve heard more recently that explosive growth in central Africa is steepening the curve, and pointing toward even higher numbers.”

Conversations about overpopulation tend to raise gut reactions, such as “What about China’s One Child policy?” or “I couldn’t possibly suggest to a woman from another culture how many children to have.” 

LEE: In 1999, David Pimentel, Cornell University biology professor, estimated two billion people was Earth’s long-term carrying capacity. More recently, the science of ecological foot-printing, which measures Earth’s biological production against human demand to consume, has come up with the figure of five billion people, putting us already two billion over Earth’s limits. Both of these calculations take the question of “how many people” to a deeper level, that of considering our interdependence with the millions of other species on Earth. We know we need millions of species in order for our species to survive. The most basic question can no longer be, “How many Homo sapiens can Earth sustain?” but “How many Homo sapiens and other species can inhabit Earth in a life-sustaining balance?”

JERRY: I wrote an essay recently called Options to Curb the Two Primary Drivers of the Climate Crisis: OverPopulation and OverConsumption. I’ve worked on the issue of overconsumption for some 25 years. Since circulating the essay for response, I’ve learned that few people want to touch overpopulation, not in the progressive church, not among non-profits, not liberal politicians. I’ve vowed to carry on this conversation, which began with my interview of John Seager, head of the Population Connection, formerly Zero Population Growth. PART 1 // PART 2

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*Simpler Formats for 2018–SLW! Weekly Digest has been discontinued and the SLW! Podcast has been reduced to one episode per month, issued on the 15th. The complete SLW! Monthly Digest on the SLW! site will continue to feature the latest posts from colleague organizations and will be updated weekly. Simpler Living Weekly Nudge will feature offerings from SLW! It comes as your free subscription to SLW! Blog. The Daily Nudge comes by email (send NUDGE to SimpleLivingworks@yahoo.com) or by Twitter @GeraldIversen. Choose the options that work for you.

Subscribers to Simple Living Works! (SLW!) Podcast now receive The Common Good Podcast (TCGP)–which I produce and co-host–on the 1st of the month. Likewise, subscribers to TCGP receive SLW! Podcast on the 15th as a BONUS. So, SLW! Podcast subscribers will continue to receive two episodes per month. This makes good sense since the missions of both SLW! and Jubilee OneEarth Economics are so complementary and the two work together closely. Your comments on these changes are welcome.

Previous Episodes

Early June Bonus–Bonnie Tarwater of Church for Our Common Home: Shifting Spiritual Practices and Congregations to More Earth-Based Ways
In the New Story of OneEarth living, religion and science are in a new relationship pursuing a mutual goal. That goal? Living with all beings in interdependent relationship that sustains life, reverses climate change, and breaks through to new social and economic systems. Now, how is this affecting houses of worship? Faith communities of all stripes? It’s the pursuit of this new interconnection between spirituality and science that led to the interview of this podcast. Glad you’re listening.

On Earth Day 2018, two renowned people, a climate scientist and a theologian. They shared the same platform. They described how science and religion were joining together in a whole New Story for OneEarth living. The scientist was Veerabhadran Ramanathan,  a distinguished professor at Scripps Institute of Oceanography at University of California San Diego and UNESCO Professor of Climate and Policy TERI University, New Delhi, India. In 1975, Ramanathan discovered the greenhouse effect of halocarbons.

The theologian was John Cobb, a scholar in the field of process philosophy and process theology. He is the author of more than 50 books and is described as one of the most significant theologians of the past century. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been a major influence in the ecologic movement in China. In 2015 at age 90, he was the architect of a major world conference with Claremont School of Theology, “Seizing an Alternative: Toward an Ecologic Civilization.”

The architect of this Earth Day event was Bonnie Tarwater, the innovative pastor of the Church for Our Common Home. On Sunday morning Juanita and Lee went to this house church congregation, formed in the last couple years. John Cobb gave a fascinating homily in the backyard on “God’s Call to Earthism.” A provocative conclusion to a great Earth Day weekend—an inclusive weekend that included Buddhists, Christians, and Sikhs among various religious traditions.

That story is the background for this episode. The Church for Our Common Home takes its name from Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Laudato Si’,” which has the ecological subtitle “On Care for Our Common Home.”

Lee’s background blog: Climate Scientist and Theologian Tell How Ecological Crisis Requires New Cooperation between Science and Religion

A 3-part series:

** SLW! episode 111 for mid-April, 2018, of SLW! features part 1 of our conversation with Susan Taylor of Just Money Advisors about her book “What About Our Money: A Faith Response” — Wrestling with Systems Where Money Is Boss

** In early May, TCGP #95 features Susan part 2 on Matters of the Heart.

** In mid-May, SLW! #112 features Susan part 3 on Giving and Investing.

In part 1 with Susan, we gave an extensive bio of her many achievements and involvements. Please check that episode or see her bio on the Natural Investments website. Read her bio in back of her book, p.107.

Also hear our earlier conversation with Susan on TCGP Episode 78 : Susan Taylor of Just Money Advisors on Relating to Money in a Toxic Culture and Parenting Children about Money.

If you haven’t yet ordered your copy of Susan’s book, do it. The United Methodist Women commissioned Susan to write “What About Our Money? A Faith Response,” so order it from them. https://www.unitedmethodistwomen.org/mission-u/money.

Secondly, if you haven’t yet become acquainted with Faith and Money Network, make a point to visit their website, faithandmoney.org.

LEE RESPONSE:
Choosing a bank is a spiritual practice
Taxes as redistribution and as investments
Redistribution is a practice of jubilee–Jubilee engages in redistribution
Women empowered through money and faith–Jubilee Circles involved in women’s empowerment—not just a mother’s day but ongoing revolutionary effort to change minds of women and men to live in a different relationship of sharing and cooperation instead of domination.
Artesanas Shalom
Women’s Collectiva
Women’s legal rights
Sewing machine–indigenous artists
Communitarian Feminism

# # #

Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections IndexOther Seasons

The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE

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In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our podcast. The content is different, though the subject is the same. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

Welcome to the other podcast I co-host/produce, The Common Good Podcast.

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.

Simple Living blog/podcast/site preview service

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.

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 // Self-Starters Needed! // Free coaching for groups on the internet

Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections IndexAdvent/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)

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

Jubilee Economics / The OneEarth Project colleague Lee Van Ham’s books Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us and From Ego to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable, both part of The OneEarth Project. || NEW three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals || Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress, including TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 || Lee’s Slide Show || Lee’s new blog series Jubilee Is Bigger Than We’d Thought: Permeates Scripture, Addresses Today’s Crises

Share your thoughts on this podcast and this episode. Email SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.

Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Read & subscribe to the SLW! blog. |  Follow us on Pinterest.

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments below, then check  

SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunesStitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. 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.

Episode Index

Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist

To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — listen to episodes #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, to educate and inspire you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog weekly.

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

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits.

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 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.

Episode 113: Bill Ryerson of Population Institute, part 1

ryerson

Simpler OneEarth Living Podcast*
SHOW NOTES

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index. SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.

Bill Ryerson of Population Institute and Population Media Center

In two podcast episodes with Bill Ryerson, we delve into the population explosion—a topic that continues to be largely avoided even though it is core to the civilizational and ecological disasters unfolding.

Crises Caused by Exploding Human Population

COMING NEXT: Reducing Human Population through Methods That Work

At the very time when species extinctions are happening faster than at any moment since 65 million year ago when dinosaur populations collapsed, one species, Homo sapiens, is in a burst of exponential growth. Now numbering 7.6 billion, our rise to become the overwhelmingly dominant species on the planet carries with it the harbinger of catastrophic decline. Because Nature’s ecosystems seek balance, no species has ever remained overwhelmingly dominant for long. Theoretically, it is possible that Homo sapiens, having evolved a high level of intelligence, will choose actions that cooperate with Nature in re-establishing a balance among species. But current trends indicate that our species will need to be brought back into balance through disaster, disease, and death, just as happens with other species when they have risen to dominate the resources of a region and destroyed the balance of the planet. The MultiEarth worldview is proving to be especially ineffective in dealing with population growth, ….[but] “Why?” (quote from _Blinded by Progress_ by co-host Lee Van Ham)

So, as we start this two-part series on human population, I am one who says, “There really isn’t anyway that we can be stewards of this planet with the top predator continuing to expand numbers, and doing so explosively.”

Again, quoting from the chapter on population in my book, Blinded by Progress: “Our growth rate exceeds our consciousness to even calculate its impact, and all of us, scientists included, are scrambling to come up with the framework in which to discuss this rapid takeover of our planet by our own species. E. O. Wilson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist retired from Harvard, has described this unusually rapid numerical growth by a species of primates (Homo sapiens) as ‘more bacterial than primate.’ He calculates that ‘human biomass is already a hundred times larger than that of any other large animal species that has ever walked the Earth.’ All species, including our own, are reeling from our heavy footprint upon our planet.”

NOTE–Study: Human 0.01% of World’s Biomass, Cause 83% of Extinctions–Real New Network.com, 6/6/18, 9 min.

JERRY: I wrote an essay recently called Options to Curb the Two Primary Drivers of the Climate Crisis: OverPopulation and OverConsumption. I’ve worked on the issue of overconsumption for some 25 years. Since circulating the essay for response I’ve learned that few people want to touch overpopulation, not in the progressive church, not among non-profits, not liberal politicians. I’ve vowed to carry on this conversation, which began with my interview of John Seager, head of the Population Connection, formerly Zero Population Growth. PART 1 // PART 2

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*Simpler Formats for 2018–SLW! Weekly Digest has been discontinued and the SLW! Podcast will be reduced to one episode per month, issued on the 15th. The complete SLW! Monthly Digest on the SLW! site will continue to feature the latest posts from colleague organizations and will be updated weekly. Simpler Living Weekly Nudge will feature offerings from SLW! It comes as your free subscription to SLW! Blog. The Daily Nudge comes by email (send NUDGE to SimpleLivingworks@yahoo.com) or by Twitter @GeraldIversen. Choose the options that work for you.

Subscribers to Simple Living Works! (SLW!) Podcast now receive The Common Good Podcast (TCGP)–which I produce and co-host–on the 1st of the month. Likewise, subscribers to TCGP receive SLW! Podcast on the 15th as a BONUS. So, SLW! Podcast subscribers will continue to receive two episodes per month. This makes good sense since the missions of both SLW! and Jubilee OneEarth Economics are so complementary and the two work together closely. Your comments on these changes are welcome.

Previous Episodes

Early June Bonus–Bonnie Tarwater of Church for Our Common Home Shifting Spiritual Practices and Congregations to More Earth-Based Ways
In the New Story of OneEarth living, religion and science are in a new relationship pursuing a mutual goal. That goal? Living with all beings in interdependent relationship that sustains life, reverses climate change, and breaks through to new social and economic systems. Now, how is this affecting houses of worship? Faith communities of all stripes? It’s the pursuit of this new interconnection between spirituality and science that led to the interview of this podcast. Glad you’re listening.

For everyone intent on living within the capacities of Earth, our common planetary home, Earth Day is a highly important day. Our podcast today is a fitting sequel to Earth Day 2018 which was this past April 22. It was a special weekend for Lee and Juanita, Lee’s spouse. On Saturday, Juanita and Lee heard two renowned people, a climate scientist and a theologian. They shared the same platform. They described how science and religion were joining together in a whole New Story for OneEarth living. The scientist was Veerabhadran Ramanathan,  a distinguished professor at Scripps Institute of Oceanography at University of California San Diego and UNESCO Professor of Climate and Policy TERI University, New Delhi, India. In 1975, Ramanathan discovered the greenhouse effect of halocarbons.

The theologian was John Cobb, a scholar in the field of process philosophy and process theology. He is the author of more than 50 books and is described as one of the most significant theologians of the past century. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been a major influence in the ecologic movement in China. In 2015 at age 90, he was the architect of a major world conference with Claremont School of Theology, “Seizing an Alternative: Toward an Ecologic Civilization.”

The architect of this Earth Day event was Bonnie Tarwater, the innovative pastor of the Church for Our Common Home. On Sunday morning Juanita and Lee went to this house church congregation, formed in the last couple years. John Cobb gave a fascinating homily in the backyard on “God’s Call to Earthism.” A provocative conclusion to what I consider to be a great Earth Day weekend—an inclusive weekend that included Buddhists, Christians, and Sikhs among various religious traditions.

That story is the background for this episode. The Church for Our Common Home takes its name from Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Laudato Si’,” which has the ecological subtitle “On Care for Our Common Home.”  A lot of the rest of the story comes out in the interview-conversation Lee recently had with Bonnie.

Lee’s background blog: Climate Scientist and Theologian Tell How Ecological Crisis Requires New Cooperation between Science and Religion

A 3-part series:

** SLW! episode 111 for mid-April, 2018, of SLW! features part 1 of our conversation with Susan Taylor of Just Money Advisors about her book “What About Our Money: A Faith Response” — Wrestling with Systems Where Money Is Boss

** In early May, TCGP #95 features Susan part 2 on Matters of the Heart.

** In mid-May, SLW! #112 features Susan part 3 on Giving and Investing.

In part 1 with Susan, we gave an extensive bio of her many achievements and involvements. Please check that episode or see her bio on the Natural Investments website. Read her bio in back of her book, p.107.

Also hear our earlier conversation with Susan on TCGP Episode 78 : Susan Taylor of Just Money Advisors on Relating to Money in a Toxic Culture and Parenting Children about Money.

If you haven’t yet ordered your copy of Susan’s book, do it. The United Methodist Women commissioned Susan to write “What About Our Money? A Faith Response,” so order it from them. https://www.unitedmethodistwomen.org/mission-u/money.

Secondly, if you haven’t yet become acquainted with Faith and Money Network, make a point to visit their website, faithandmoney.org.

LEE RESPONSE:
Choosing a bank is a spiritual practice
Taxes as redistribution and as investments
Redistribution is a practice of jubilee – Jubilee engages in redistribution
Women empowered through money and faith – Jubilee Circles involved in women’s empowerment—not just a mother’s day but ongoing revolutionary effort to change minds of women and men to live in a different relationship of sharing and cooperation instead of domination.
Artesanas Shalom
Women’s Collectiva
Women’s legal rights
Sewing machine – indigenous artists
Communitarian Feminism

Early April Bonus: HealthCare for All–Time for Healthcare for All—the Majority Want It and California’s Nearly There. Listen to this high energy, informative conversation with Julie Trager & Ava Torres-Bueno, two advocates for single payer healthcare. Their backgrounds in healthcare bring deep knowledge to their convictions. They tell how all of us can be served better and cheaper through California’s single payer plans.

Listen to this high energy, informative conversation with Julie Trager & Ava Torres-Bueno, two advocates for single payer healthcare. Their backgrounds in healthcare bring deep knowledge to their convictions. They tell how all of us can be served better and cheaper through California’s single payer plans.

Julie and Ava answer the objections to single payer that we often hear and explain how those objections come from the money-interests (insurance, pharma) who want to keep the status quo … and protect their profits. After this podcast you’ll be smarter about why and how single payer will serve us far better than the costly, confusing system we have now. You’ll know how you can help make it real asap.

We urge you to visit the website of California Health Care for All http://www.healthcareforall.org for helpful information and how you can help build momentum for this change in your area.

Also, on a related healthcare issue, Ava has written a well-informed, sensitive book, Peace beyond Abortion. It gets beyond the tragic frameworks used in much of the pro-choice vs pro-life debate which cannot be helpful to thousands of women (and men) caught in the excruciatingly difficult decision regarding a pregnancy. Ava’s book will help.

Also Mentioned: OpenSecrets.org

# # #

Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections IndexOther Seasons

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In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our podcast. The content is different, though the subject is the same. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

Welcome to the other podcast I co-host/produce, The Common Good Podcast.

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.

Simple Living blog/podcast/site preview service

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.

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 // Self-Starters Needed! // Free coaching for groups on the internet

Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections IndexAdvent/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)

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

Jubilee Economics / The OneEarth Project colleague Lee Van Ham’s books Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us and From Ego to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable, both part of The OneEarth Project. Also, hear The Common Good Podcast, which I co-host and produce. || 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, including TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 || Lee’s Slide Show || Lee’s new blog series Jubilee Is Bigger Than We’d Thought: Permeates Scripture, Addresses Today’s Crises

Share your thoughts on this podcast and this episode. Email SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.

Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Read & subscribe to the SLW! blog. |  Follow us on Pinterest.

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments below, then check  

SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunesStitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. 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.

Episode Index

Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist

To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — listen to episodes #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, to educate and inspire you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog weekly.

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

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits.

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 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.

Early June Bonus: Bonnie Tarwater of the Church for Our Common Home

Tarwater

Simpler OneEarth Living Podcast*
SHOW NOTES

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index. SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.

In the New Story of OneEarth living, religion and science are in a new relationship pursuing a mutual goal. That goal? Living with all beings in interdependent relationship that sustains life, reverses climate change, and breaks through to new social and economic systems. Now, how is this affecting houses of worship? Faith communities of all stripes? It’s the pursuit of this new interconnection between spirituality and science that led to the interview of this podcast. Glad you’re listening.

For everyone intent on living within the capacities of Earth, our common planetary home, Earth Day is a highly important day. Our podcast today is a fitting sequel to Earth Day 2018 which was this past April 22. It was a special weekend for Lee and Juanita, Lee’s spouse. On Saturday, Juanita and Lee heard two renowned people, a climate scientist and a theologian. They shared the same platform. They described how science and religion were joining together in a whole New Story for OneEarth living. The scientist was Veerabhadran Ramanathan,  a distinguished professor at Scripps Institute of Oceanography at University of California San Diego and UNESCO Professor of Climate and Policy TERI University, New Delhi, India. In 1975, Ramanathan discovered the greenhouse effect of halocarbons.

The theologian was John Cobb, a scholar in the field of process philosophy and process theology. He is the author of more than 50 books and is described as one of the most significant theologians of the past century. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been a major influence in the ecologic movement in China. In 2015 at age 90, he was the architect of a major world conference with Claremont School of Theology, “Seizing an Alternative: Toward an Ecologic Civilization.”

The architect of this Earth Day event was Bonnie Tarwater, the innovative pastor of the Church for Our Common Home. On Sunday morning Juanita and Lee went to this house church congregation, formed in the last couple years. John Cobb gave a fascinating homily in the backyard on “God’s Call to Earthism.” A provocative conclusion to what I consider to be a great Earth Day weekend—an inclusive weekend that included Buddhists, Christians, and Sikhs among various religious traditions.

That story is the background for this episode. The Church for Our Common Home takes its name from Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Laudato Si’,” which has the ecological subtitle “On Care for Our Common Home.”  A lot of the rest of the story comes out in the interview-conversation Lee recently had with Bonnie.

Lee’s background blog: Climate Scientist and Theologian Tell How Ecological Crisis Requires New Cooperation between Science and Religion

# # #

*Simpler Formats for 2018–SLW! Weekly Digest has been discontinued and the SLW! Podcast will be reduced to one episode per month, issued on the 15th. The complete SLW! Monthly Digest on the SLW! site will continue to feature the latest posts from colleague organizations and will be updated weekly. Simpler Living Weekly Nudge will feature offerings from SLW! It comes as your free subscription to SLW! Blog. The Daily Nudge comes by email (send NUDGE to SimpleLivingworks@yahoo.com) or by Twitter @GeraldIversen. Choose the options that work for you.

Subscribers to Simple Living Works! (SLW!) Podcast now receive The Common Good Podcast (TCGP)–which I produce and co-host–on the 1st of the month. Likewise, subscribers to TCGP receive SLW! Podcast on the 15th as a BONUS. So, SLW! Podcast subscribers will continue to receive two episodes per month. This makes good sense since the missions of both SLW! and Jubilee OneEarth Economics are so complementary and the two work together closely. For example, I blog on the Jubilee site at CasaJubileo.org occasionally. Your comments on these changes are welcome.

Previous Episodes

A 3-part series:

** SLW! episode 111 for mid-April, 2018, of SLW! features part 1 of our conversation with Susan Taylor of Just Money Advisors about her book “What About Our Money: A Faith Response” — Wrestling with Systems Where Money Is Boss

** In early May, TCGP #95 features Susan part 2 on Matters of the Heart.

** In mid-May, SLW! #112 features Susan part 3 on Giving and Investing.

In part 1 with Susan, we gave an extensive bio of her many achievements and involvements. Please check that episode or see her bio on the Natural Investments website. Read her bio in back of her book, p.107.

Also hear our earlier conversation with Susan on TCGP Episode 78 : Susan Taylor of Just Money Advisors on Relating to Money in a Toxic Culture and Parenting Children about Money.

If you haven’t yet ordered your copy of Susan’s book, do it. The United Methodist Women commissioned Susan to write “What About Our Money? A Faith Response,” so order it from them. https://www.unitedmethodistwomen.org/mission-u/money.

Secondly, if you haven’t yet become acquainted with Faith and Money Network, make a point to visit their website, faithandmoney.org.

LEE RESPONSE:
Choosing a bank is a spiritual practice
Taxes as redistribution and as investments
Redistribution is a practice of jubilee – Jubilee engages in redistribution
Women empowered through money and faith – Jubilee Circles involved in women’s empowerment—not just a mother’s day but ongoing revolutionary effort to change minds of women and men to live in a different relationship of sharing and cooperation instead of domination.
Artesanas Shalom
Women’s Collectiva
Women’s legal rights
Sewing machine – indigenous artists
Communitarian Feminism

Early April Bonus: HealthCare for All–Time for Healthcare for All—the Majority Want It and California’s Nearly There. Listen to this high energy, informative conversation with Julie Trager & Ava Torres-Bueno, two advocates for single payer healthcare. Their backgrounds in healthcare bring deep knowledge to their convictions. They tell how all of us can be served better and cheaper through California’s single payer plans.

Listen to this high energy, informative conversation with Julie Trager & Ava Torres-Bueno, two advocates for single payer healthcare. Their backgrounds in healthcare bring deep knowledge to their convictions. They tell how all of us can be served better and cheaper through California’s single payer plans.

Julie and Ava answer the objections to single payer that we often hear and explain how those objections come from the money-interests (insurance, pharma) who want to keep the status quo … and protect their profits. After this podcast you’ll be smarter about why and how single payer will serve us far better than the costly, confusing system we have now. You’ll know how you can help make it real asap.

We urge you to visit the website of California Health Care for All http://www.healthcareforall.org for helpful information and how you can help build momentum for this change in your area.

Also, on a related healthcare issue, Ava has written a well-informed, sensitive book, Peace beyond Abortion. It gets beyond the tragic frameworks used in much of the pro-choice vs pro-life debate which cannot be helpful to thousands of women (and men) caught in the excruciatingly difficult decision regarding a pregnancy. Ava’s book will help.

Also Mentioned: OpenSecrets.org

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Episode 110: Mark A. Burch is a Canadian author, speaker and transformational educator. He has published seven books about voluntary simplicity and sustainable livelihood, including The Hidden Door: Mindful Sufficiency as an Alternative to ExtinctionStepping Lightly: Simplicity for People and the Planet and The Simplicity Exercises: A Sourcebook for Simplicity Educators.  Euterra Rising is his debut novel.

He has practiced simple living since the 1960s, and since 1995, has offered presentations, workshops and courses on voluntary simplicity. He is the retired Director of the Campus Sustainability Office for The University of Winnipeg, former Co-Director of the Simplicity Practice and Resource Centre, and former Instructional Fellow with the Canadian School of Peacebuilding in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He has been a frequent featured guest on Canadian Broadcast Corporation radio and TV.

In 2012, he wrote eight papers for the Simplicity Institute in Australia. He also wrote the handy “Simplicity Study Circles: A Step-by-Step Guide.” Most recently he has moved to futuristic fiction with “Euterra Rising: the Last Utopia.”

Visit MarkABurch.ca for his blog Dispatches From Euterra

SimplicityInstitute.org – Envisioning a Prosperous Descent – Simplicity Institute Reports (8) by Mark A. Burch

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In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our podcast. The content is different, though the subject is the same. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

Welcome to the other podcast I co-host/produce, The Common Good Podcast.

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.

Simple Living blog/podcast/site preview service

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.

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 // Self-Starters Needed! // Free coaching for groups on the internet

Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections IndexAdvent/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)

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

Jubilee Economics / The OneEarth Project colleague Lee Van Ham’s books Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us and From Ego to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable, both part of The OneEarth Project. Also, hear The Common Good Podcast, which I co-host and produce. || 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, including TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 || Lee’s Slide Show || Lee’s new blog series Jubilee Is Bigger Than We’d Thought: Permeates Scripture, Addresses Today’s Crises

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