Category Archives: Other Seasons

Episode 29 :: Brian ‘Wolt’ Wolters of OverFlow Project

September 14, 2014General, Other Seasons10 puntas, Alternate Celebrations Catalog, Alternative Giving, Alternative Wedding Book, Alternatives, Blinded by Progress, Bob Sitze, Brian 'Wolt' Wolters, Cecile Andrews, celebrate responsibly, challenge consumerism, Champions of Simple Living Today, Christine Sine, coaching, Danes, discussion groups, Easter, Eco-Justice Ministries, ELCA Archives, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, event organizers, faith, Gerald Iversen, Grace Winn, Hunger, iPod, iTunes, John de Graaf, John Pitney, Lee Van Ham, Lent, live justly, Living More with Less, Minor Prophets, Mission, Mustard Seed Associates (GodSpace), Northstone, Not Ordinary Times, OneEarth Project, Overflow Project 50-Day Challenge, Paul Canavese, Peter Sawtell, Shane Claiborne, simple living, Simple Living 101, Simply Delicious, SLW! Recommends Literacy Service, Social Media Supplement, Spanish, speakers, Stitcher, Tom Sine, Tony and Shane Uncut, Tony Campolo, Treasury of Celebrations, Vicki Robin, voluntary simplicity, Wedding Alternatives, Whose Birthday Is It Anyway?, workshop leadersSLW-PODCAST

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:59 — 17.2MB)

Show Notes

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index.

Brian “Wolt” Wolters and the Overflow Project, plus blog and resources | 50-Day Challenge | my blog SIMPLIFY + GIVE + CHANGE = WATER

Mentions This Episode

Why Ares Danes So Happy? blog | Response to Danes blog | Recent Responses to all SLW! media with links

John “Affluenza” de Graaf podcasts (2) | blogs (4)

Tony and Shane Uncut, SLW! podcast episodes 20-27

SLW! Mission: blog | podcast

A Vision of the Future blog

John Pitney‘s song “Live Simply So Others May Simply Live” (closing theme complete)

Coming

Oct. 1 SLW! podcast — Paul Canavese, head of GospelLiving.org. 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.
Oct. 15 podcast — Bob Sitze, author, blogger

Mentions in Earlier Episodes

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

We also met Glen Gersmehl, Exec. Dir. of Lutheran Peace Fellowship in Seattle.

Simply Delicious

Quantity Cooking for Churches // Grace Winn, ed.

Hunger Resources from Worship Alternatives

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 – September

Eco-Justice Ministries

Eco-Justice: “the well-being of all humankind on a thriving Earth” Guest: Peter Sawtell, Founder and Exec. Dir. of Eco-Justice Ministries, discussing the new emphasis Not Ordinary Times. Eco-Justice Ministries | Subscribe to Eco-Justice NOTES (weekly email commentary). NotOrdinaryTimes.org is a challenging call to “be the church” in this time of environmental crisis — backed up with a comprehensive set of resources and background materials that will guide churches through a six-month season of worship and preaching that takes seriously the devastation of the global environment. (The weeks between Pentecost, 6/8/14, and Advent, 11/30, are traditionally Ordinary Time, the non-festival part of the Church Year.)

My Travel Journal – Denver, where I spoke at Peter Sawtell’s church (scroll to Post #76) | Good Friday Vigil Against Gun Violence: Stations of the Cross

Pastoral Economic Struggles: Facing Together Global Capitalism’s Domination in Daily Life by Lee Van Ham (Pentecost theme)

Worship Alternatives: Pentecost/Ordinary Time

Tony & Shane Uncut

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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.

For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives contact info, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 * (847) 690-9410 * archives@elca.org

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.

Wedding Alternatives: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth (Angela and Pete, above, contributors to Wedding Alternatives Supplement)

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.

In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post new SLW! blogs several times a week. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our two-times-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.

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

MORE Mentions in Recent 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

Those Who Speak for God: Household Studies on the Minor Prophets
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

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits.

*GRAPHIC: Overflow Project

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.

*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.

Episode 28 :: Tom & Christine Sine–Mustard Seed Associates

August 31, 2014General, Other Seasons10 puntas, Alternative Giving, Alternative Wedding Book, Alternatives, Blessing the Hands That Feed Us, Blinded by Progress, Cecile Andrews, celebrate responsibly, challenge consumerism, Christine Sine, coaching, discussion groups, Easter, ELCA Archives, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, event organizers, faith, Gerald Iversen, Grace Winn, Hunger, iPod, iTunes, Lee Van Ham, Lent, live justly, Living More with Less, Mission, Mustard Seed Associates (GodSpace), Northstone, Overflow Project 50-Day Challenge, simple living, Simple Living 101, Simply Delicious, Social Media Supplement, Spanish, speakers, Stitcher, Tom Sine, Treasury of Celebrations, Vicki Robin, voluntary simplicity, Wedding Alternatives, Whose Birthday Is It Anyway?, workshop leaders, Your Money or Your LifeSLW-PODCAST

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:12 — )

Show Notes

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index.

We met Glen Gersmehl, Exec. Dir. of Lutheran Peace Fellowship in Seattle. Rita and I were interviewed by Christine Sine for her Godspace blog.

I interviewed Tom and Christine Sine at Mustard Seed House for this podcast. 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).

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

Mentions This Episode

SoCap Conference – Social Capital Markets

Coming

Brian “Wolt” Wolters and the Overflow Project | 50-Day Challenge | my blog SIMPLIFY + GIVE + CHANGE = WATER

Mentions in Earlier Episodes

Simply Delicious

Quantity Cooking for Churches // Grace Winn, ed.

Hunger Resources from Worship Alternatives

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

Since August, 2010, I have continued to review resources, most of which I recommend to my local public library and they add to their collection. I have interacted with each of these titles and sources.

SLW! does not sell anything, but we recommend resources from other sources and publishers, which we urge you to get from your public library or your local, independent bookstore. For help locating a local source, visit IndieBound.org. Some are free on the internet. Most of the links take you to my previews.

Some of the titles are faith-based, most are not. They vary from simple to complex, from friendly to polemical. Find a TOPIC that interests you; try a few of the entries. Then move to another TOPIC. The titles are not in alphabetical or priority order.

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 – September

Eco-Justice Ministries

NotOrdinaryTimes.org is a challenging call to “be the church” in this time of environmental crisis — backed up with a comprehensive set of resources and background materials that will guide churches through a six-month season of worship and preaching that takes seriously the devastation of the global environment. (The weeks between Pentecost, 6/8/14, and Advent, 11/30, are traditionally Ordinary Time, the non-festival part of the Church Year.)

My Travel Journal – Denver, where I spoke at Peter Sawtell’s church (scroll to Post #76) | Good Friday Vigil Against Gun Violence: Stations of the Cross

Pastoral Economic Struggles: Facing Together Global Capitalism’s Domination in Daily Life by Lee Van Ham (Pentecost theme)

Worship Alternatives: Pentecost/Ordinary Time

Tony & Shane Uncut

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For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives contact info, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 * (847) 690-9410 * archives@elca.org

Vicki Robin, author: TedxSeattle talk - 14 minutes of heart, head and humor on Relational Eating | Website: VickiRobin.com | Book: Your Money or Your Life | NEW Book: Blessing the Hands that Feed Us: What Eating Closer to Home Taught Me About Food, Community And Our Place on Earth | Local Food Lab – restoring local food systems | Order her new book Blessing the Hands That Feed Us from Indiebound or Amazon. Additional Vicki Robin Sites: An enlightening previous site | Wikipedia | Your Money or Your Life | Vicki on Good Reads | Facebook. Vicki Robin: My blog “Let’s Chat” about the Simple Living Forum + Vicki’s Vision of The Simplicity Forum (audio)

Champions of Simple Living Today

Simple Living blog/site preview service.

I hope that you can see the values of these 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 Alternative 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.

Wedding Alternatives: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth (Angela and Pete, above, contributors to Wedding Alternatives Supplement)

Cecile Andrews | CecileAndrews.com
Champion of Simplicity and Community Conversation Circles

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.

Share your thoughts on this podcast and this episode. Email Feedback@SimpleLivingWorks.org, or 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 Notify me of new posts by email.

Episode Index

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

MORE Mentions in Recent 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

Those Who Speak for God: Household Studies on the Minor Prophets
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

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits.

*GRAPHIC:

*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.

Episode 19 :: Summer Festivals/Simply Delicious/Hunger

April 14, 2014General, Other Seasons10 puntas, 10 Tips for a Simpler More Meaningful Easter, Alternative Giving, Alternative Wedding Book, Alternatives, Blessing the Hands That Feed Us, Blinded by Progress, Cecile Andrews, celebrate responsibly, challenge consumerism, coaching, discussion groups, Easter, ELCA Archives, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, event organizers, faith, Gerald Iversen, Grace Winn, Hunger, iPod, iTunes, Lee Van Ham, Lent, live justly, Living More with Less, Mission, Northstone, Overflow Project 50-Day Challenge, simple living, Simple Living 101, Simply Delicious, Social Media Supplement, Spanish, speakers, Spring Festivals, Stitcher, Summer Festivals, Treasury of Celebrations, Vicki Robin, voluntary simplicity, Wedding Alternatives, Who's Risen from the Dead Anyway?, Whose Birthday Is It Anyway?, workshop leaders, Your Money or Your LifeSLW-PODCAST

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:12 — 11.0MB)

Show Notes

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index.

Treasury of Celebrations is in four parts, after the Introduction and Preface

Part 1: Making Choices includes
Part 2: Gifts
Part 3: Celebrations for
- Jan-Apr | May-Aug | Sep-Dec | Advent | Christmas
Part 4: Rites of Passage

We have covered much of this resource in earlier episodes.

For this episode, the MAY-AUG. (SUMMER) section of Celebrations includes:

Simply Delicious

Quantity Cooking for Churches // Grace Winn, ed.

Table of CONTENTS

Introductory Materials include
RECIPES
1. Breads | Salads | Soups | Sandwiches | Main Dishes | Vegetables | Desserts | Snacks and Refreshments
The final section includes Cooking Hints | Tables | Books for Further Study | Index | Acknowledgments

Hunger from Worship Alternatives

HUNGER Emphasis 40-day Lenten Calendar
Mommy, I’m Hungry: A Children’s Sermon
Sacred Dance: Connecting the Body, Mind, and Spirit in Worship [+ART]
Hungering for Justice: A Litany
Beans, Rice, & Cappuccino
The Least of These: A Litany [+ART]
The Banquet Table: Poem and Reading [+ART]
How He Broke the Bread: a dramatic reading for youth
Feast from a Snack – A Monologue for a Child
I Just Want You to Know I’m Here – A Monologue
May We Be Uneasy
Remind Us of Your Face: A Responsive Call to Awareness [+ART]
Change for the Children: A Hymn for Children’s Sabbath [+ART]
Jesus and Children: A Sermon for Children’s Sabbath
Hungry for Hope: Children’s Activity / How We Created a Day Camp on Hunger [+ART]

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RESPONSE

Gifts that Give Hope: Lancaster’s Alternative Gift Fair | Gifts that Give Fairs | A recent survey by the national non-profit, the Center for a New American Dream, revealed that 70 percent of Americans would welcome holidays with less emphasis on material gift giving and spending!

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

Some of the titles are faith-based, most are not. They vary from simple to complex, from friendly to polemical.

Find a TOPIC that interests you; try a few of the entries. Then move to another TOPIC. The titles are not in alphabetical or priority order.

Literacy Topics: Activism | Celebrating | Economic | Environmental | Family/Children | Financial | Food, Water, Agriculture | Happiness | Health/Medical |

Historical | Media | Peace/War/Militarism/Empire | Political | Spiritual/Faith | Time and Work | General

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

Since we’re in 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 – April

Last Episode

Eco-Justice Ministries

Eco-Justice: “the well-being of all humankind on a thriving Earth”

Guest: Peter Sawtell, Founder and Exec. Dir. of Eco-Justice Ministries, discussing the new emphasis Not Ordinary Times.

Eco-Justice Ministries | Subscribe to Eco-Justice NOTES (weekly email commentary)

My Travel Journal – Denver, where I spoke at Peter Sawtell’s church (scroll to Post #76) | Good Friday Vigil Against Gun Violence: Stations of the Cross

The weeks between Pentecost, 6/8/14, and Advent, 11/30, are traditionally Ordinary Time, the non-festival part of the Church Year.

NEW – Pastoral Economic Struggles: Facing Together Global Capitalism’s Domination in Daily Life by Lee Van Ham (Pentecost theme)

Worship Alternatives: Pentecost/Ordinary Time

Plans

In May, I plan to start a series called Tony & Shane Uncut – 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.” [Secret: the complete series — episodes 20-27 — can be previewed now, even with Show Notes.]

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For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives contact info, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 * (847) 690-9410 * archives@elca.org

Previous Episodes

Vicki Robin has helped millions of Americans reshape their lives in sound and beautiful ways, but this may be her most important project yet–and a crucial one for our tired planet too! ~~Bill McKibben, author of Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist

Vicki Robin is a national treasure–a source of wisdom and uncommon sense now directed at the most basic of basics: how and what we eat and how that connects to our health, prosperity, and prospects . . . The ten-mile diet should be national policy!” ~~ David Orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College

TedxSeattle talk - 14 minutes of heart, head and humor on Relational Eating | Website: VickiRobin.com | Book: Your Money or Your Life | NEW Book: Blessing the Hands that Feed Us: What Eating Closer to Home Taught Me About Food, Community And Our Place on Earth | Local Food Lab – restoring local food systems | Order her new book Blessing the Hands That Feed Us from Indiebound or Amazon.

Additional Vicki Robin Sites: An enlightening previous site | Wikipedia | Your Money or Your Life | Vicki on Good Reads | Facebook

Vicki Robin: My blog “Let’s Chat” about the Simple Living Forum + Vicki’s Vision of The Simplicity Forum (audio)

Mentions

Champions of Simple Living Today

I now offer a Simple Living blog preview service. Or search on Ecosia.org (not Google) for frugal, thrifty, cheapskate, simple living, voluntary simplicity.

I hope that you can see the values of these 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 Alternative Celebrations Catalogs.

Part 4. Rites of Passage, such as birthdays, anniversaries and funerals

Wedding Alternatives: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth (Angela and Pete, above, contributors to Wedding Alternatives Supplement)

Cecile Andrews | CecileAndrews.com
Champion of Simplicity and Community Conversation Circles

To LISTEN, visit the Episode Index.

Colleague Lee Van Ham of Jubilee Economics is progressing well with his new book Blinded by Progress, including his numerous interviews.

Helpful Articles on SPRING Festivals
(We talked about Lent and Easter (April 20) – in Episode #13.)

Passover – Tue., April 15, 2014 – 7 days – Mon., April 21. In the USA, Passover ends one day later, Tues., April 22. | Freedom from slavery | What links are in place in your community?

In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post new SLW! blogs several times a week. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. This BLOG is the companion to our two-times-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.

You’re welcome to share your thoughts on these subjects. Email a message to Feedback AT SimpleLivingWorks DOT org.

Leave a comment on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.

Share your thoughts on this podcast and this episode. Email Feedback AT SimpleLivingWorks DOT org [or SimpleLivingWorks AT yahoo DOT com or SimpleLivingWorks2 AT gmail DOT 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 Notify me of new posts by email.

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

MORE Mentions in Recent 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

Those Who Speak for God: Household Studies on the Minor Prophets

Overflow Project 50-Day Challenge | my blog SIMPLIFY + GIVE + CHANGE = WATER
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 Easter | Celebrations | SPANISH: 10 puntas
For Lent/Easter SEASONAL HELPS, including links to AV and Text resources, see episode 13.
SEASONAL HELPS from *Treasury of Celebrations: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth: Jan.-April | EASTER

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits.

*GRAPHIC: Simply Delicious: Quantity Cooking for Churches

*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.

Episode 18 :: Not Ordinary Times – Eco-Justice Ministries

March 31, 2014General, Lent/Easter, Other Seasons10 puntas, 10 Tips for a Simpler More Meaningful Easter, Alternative Giving, Alternative Wedding Book, Alternatives, Blessing the Hands That Feed Us, Blinded by Progress, Cecile Andrews, celebrate responsibly, challenge consumerism, Champions of Simple Living, Choose Justice, coaching, discussion groups, Easter, Eco-Justice Ministries, ELCA Archives, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, event organizers, faith, Gerald Iversen, Getting #Married, Gifts that Give Hope, iPod, iTunes, Lee Van Ham, Lent, Less is More, live justly, Living More with Less, Living Room Revolution, Meredith Gould, Mission, Northstone, NotOrdinaryTimes.org, Nuestra Boda, Ordinary Time, Overflow Project 50-Day Challenge, Pentecost, Peter Sawtell, Rites of Passage, Shane Claiborne, simple living, Simple Living 101, Slow is Beautiful, SLW! Recommends Literacy Service, Social Media Supplement, Spanish, Spring Festivals, Stitcher, Submission Guidelines, The Circle of Simplicity, Tony & Shane Uncut, Tony Campolo, transition movement US, Treasury of Celebrations, Vicki Robin, voluntary simplicity, Wedding Alternatives, Who's Risen from the Dead Anyway?, Whose Birthday Is It Anyway?, workshop leaders, World Vision Canada, Worship Alternatives, Your Money or Your LifeSLW-PODCAST

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:52 — 13.1MB)

Show Notes

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index.

Eco-Justice Ministries

Eco-Justice: “the well-being of all humankind on a thriving Earth”

Guest: Peter Sawtell, Founder and Exec. Dir. of Eco-Justice Ministries, discussing the new emphasis Not Ordinary Times.

Mentions This Episode

Eco-Justice Ministries | Subscribe to Eco-Justice NOTES (weekly email commentary)

My Travel Journal – Denver, where I spoke at Peter Sawtell’s church (scroll to Post #76) | Good Friday Vigil Against Gun Violence: Stations of the Cross

The weeks between Pentecost, 6/8/14, and Advent, 11/30, are traditionally Ordinary Time, the non-festival part of the Church Year.

NEW – Pastoral Economic Struggles: Facing Together Global Capitalism’s Domination in Daily Life by Lee Van Ham (Pentecost theme)

Worship Alternatives: Pentecost/Ordinary Time

A Pentecost Blessing
A Pentecost Litany for All Seasons
The Enormous Language: A Drama for Pentecost Sunday
Pentecostal Power: A Sermon for Pentecost Sunday (by Ken Sehested)
Bringing Them to Their Senses: A Brainstorming Session
Birthday of the Church: A Children’s Sermon for Pentecost
Beatitudes (Version 2.0) (text)
Beatitudes (Version 2.0) (PDF)
Being the Church: Some Thoughts about the Community of Faith
One in the Spirit: A Program for an Intergenerational Fellowship [+ART]
Why People Always Bring Food
Invocation for an Ordinary Congregation
Being the Church: Some Thoughts about the Community of Faith
Moving into Ordinary Time: A Call to Worship
God, Our Souls Are Weary: A Prayer for Servants
A Prayer for Ordinary Time
These Stones We Hold: A Service of Release [+ART]
Pieces of the Puzzle: A Children’s Sermon Idea
The Body of Christ? It’s a Puzzle: a youth activity [+ART]
A Rock Garden of Wishes: Brainstorming for a Children’s Activity [+ART]
Benediction [+ART]

RESPONSE

Gifts that Give Hope: Lancaster’s Alternative Gift Fair | Gifts that Give Fairs | A recent survey by the national non-profit, the Center for a New American Dream, revealed that 70 percent of Americans would welcome holidays with less emphasis on material gift giving and spending!

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

LITERACY
Look and see what others can’t see.
Hear what others aren’t able to hear.
Tell what you have seen and heard.

Intro

Simple Living is a comprehensive way of living. It’s so much more than its stereotype of growing a few tomatoes and wearing our favorite old clothes!

This service contains books (paper, eBooks, audio), video (DVD, internet), audio (CD, MP3), blogs, podcasts, sites.

These are quite current resources. For classic resources, visit Study/Activity/Action Guides.

Mildly interesting historical note: For most of its 40 years of service Alternatives offered a Book Service. From 1995-2008, Alternatives published and distributed a modest quarterly Resource Guide, i.e. sales catalog. I reviewed hundreds of resources to find the ones ideal for our audience. Since August, 2010, I have continued to review resources, most of which I recommend to my local public library and they add to their collection. I have interacted with each of these titles and sources.

Some of the titles are faith-based, most are not. They vary from simple to complex, from friendly to polemical.

Find a TOPIC that interests you; try a few of the entries. Then move to another TOPIC. The titles are not in alphabetical or priority order.

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

Colleague Lee Van Ham of Jubilee Economics is progressing well with his new book Blinded by Progress.

For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives contact info, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 * (847) 690-9410 * archives@elca.org

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.

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.

They’re updated as new material arrives, so send ideas and items anytime. Prepare something now while it’s really on your mind. An item may be new or not, original or not. (If it’s by someone else, include a complete description of the source.) We prefer items of 250 words or fewer (one page double-spaced). We reserve the right to edit.

ART (line drawing, photo) that depicts the tension between faith and culture, especially at Christmas and Easter.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES (especially intergenerational ones) related to simplifying Christmas and Easter and finding meaning and happiness in relationships instead of stuff.
FAMILY ACTIVITIES, rituals or worshipful ceremonies for Advent/ Christmas/Epiphany and Lent/HolyWeek/Easter.

We reach many through our website, blogs and other media. Sorry, we cannot pay for any submissions.

Read WHOSE Birthday? in the archives | WHO’s Risen? Some also come in AUDIO formats.

Please send your submissions by email to SimpleLivingWorks AT yahoo DOT com. If you need to send something by US mail, email us and we’ll send you a mailing address.

Plans

Next episode, you’ll hear info about Alternative Summer Festivals, an overview of Simply Delicious: Quantity Cooking for Churches, and Hunger resources from Worship Alternatives.

In May, I start a series called Tony & Shane Uncut – 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.” [Secret: the complete series — episodes 20-27 — can be previewed now, even with Show Notes.]

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Champions of Simple Living Today

For more Simple Living sites, search on Ecosia.org (not Google) for frugal, thrifty, cheapskate, simple living, voluntary simplicity.

Mentions in Recent Episodes

I hope that you can see the values of these 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 Alternative Celebrations Catalogs.

Part 4. Rites of Passage, such as birthdays, anniversaries and funerals

Wedding Alternatives: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth (Angela and Pete, above, contributors to Wedding Alternatives Supplement)

Treasury Intro: SLW! podcast episode 4 (the need to simplify all our celebrations)

Overview of Rites of Passage (alphabetical order)

Adoption Day | An Alternative Wedding Service | Anniversaries | Bequeathal of organs and tissue upon our death | Birth | Birthdays | Death | Divorce | Early Passages, such as tooth rites and starting school | Graduations | Hospice Care | In the Faith Community — Confirmation for Christian youth and Bar or bat mitzvah for Jewish boys and girls | Marriage | Memorial Societies | Puberty | Retirement | Rites of Passage (intro) | The Second Time, remarriage | NEW – Green Birthday Parties

Wedding Alternatives, which also has been published as the Alternative Wedding Book includes:

Outward Signs of Inner Values: What Matters for Your Wedding? | Create Your Own Ceremony: Beyond “Here Comes the Bride” | Planning an Alternative Wedding: Food, Flowers and Festivities | Wedding Timeline/Checklist | Wedding Budget Worksheet | Supplement

The original version is free online, including a more recent supplement. The Alternative Wedding Book is still in-print from Woodlake/NorthStone Publishing, BC, Canada.

It you think this resource may be out-of-date, read this testimonial for Alternative Wedding Book that I received in late 2013, signed Arizona Bride. She plans to continue giving the book to friends who are preparing to wed. By the way, it’s available free and complete as Wedding Alternatives at SimpleLivingWorks.org; also in Spanish as Nuestra Boda.

I hope you’ll find my blog Occupying the Flagstaff Bridal Fair both humorous and enlightening.

And I’ve added Meredith Gould’s helpful book Getting #Married: Using Social Media to Celebrate the Sacred to the Wedding Alternatives Supplement.

Cecile Andrews | CecileAndrews.com
Champion of Simplicity and Community Conversation Circles

A community educator, Cecile is active in the transition movement in the United States. She’s the author of The Circle of Simplicity: Return to the Good Life (1998) | Slow is Beautiful: New Visions of Community, Leisure and Joie de Vivre (2006) | Less is More: Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness (2009) | NEW! Living Room Revolution: A Handbook for Conversation, Community and the Common Good (2013)

To LISTEN, visit the Episode Index.

Helpful Articles on SPRING Festivals
We talked about Lent and Easter (April 20) – in Episode #13. | Passover – Tue., April 15, 2014 – 7 days – Mon., April 21. In the USA, Passover ends one day later, Tues., April 22.

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MORE Mentions in Recent 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
Lent/Easter: 10 Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Easter | Article/ART Index: Easter | Bulletin Inserts are indexed in Articles by season. | En Español (all) | Spirit of Simplicity: Quotes and Art for Simpler Living and Global Justice ( Foreword by Cecile Andrews | Introduction | How to Use This Collection | QUOTES | ART )

Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? A. Reflection/Activity Guides (two guides for each cycle – total of six); B. Passover and Easter Seders; C. Posters and 40-Day Calendars; D. Bulletin Inserts & Covers (#551-559) | Those Who Speak for God: Household Studies on the Minor Prophets

Worship Alternatives: Worship Items (Litanies, Hymns, Prayers, etc.)| Sermons | ART for Lent/Holy Week/Easter
Guides for Sharing These Resources: School of Layout | Reaching Out Through the Media
Overflow Project 50-Day Challenge | my blog SIMPLIFY + GIVE + CHANGE = WATER
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 Easter | Celebrations | SPANISH: 10 puntas
For Lent/Easter SEASONAL HELPS, including links to AV and Text resources, see episode 13.
SEASONAL HELPS from *Treasury of Celebrations: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth: Winter Festivals: Jan.-April | LENT | EASTER | 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

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits.

*GRAPHIC: Eco-Justice.org

*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.

Episode 5 :: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle – 2

September 15, 2013Advent/Christmas, General, Other SeasonsAlternatives, Break Forth into Joy, celebrate responsibly, challenge consumerism, faith, five Life Standards, John Pitney, Life Simply That Others May Simply Live, live justly, Living More with Less, Mission, simple living, Treasury of Celebrations, voluntary simplicity, Whose Birthday Is It Anyway?SLW-PODCAST

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 40:53 — 23.4MB)

In this episode. . .

Break Forth Into Joy: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle, part 2 + Simplifying early winter festivals with Treasury of Celebrations

Hear the second part of Alternatives’ award-winning program Break Forth into Joy: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle, and then hear about a big resource for simplifying Christmas, New Years and Epiphany.

Break Forth Into Joy! itself is 15-minutes. In this episode three additional 10-minute bonus segments of people featured in the main part. These additional sections have themes of freedom and possessions, family and children, and taking action. Relevant to Christmas.

Some of the Speakers

John and Mary Schramm wrote A Service for Ending, Blending & Beginning Christmas Traditions for Alternatives.

David Allen Sorensen and Barbara DeGrote-Sorensen, co-authors of ‘Tis a Gift to be Simple; Six Weeks to a Simpler Lifestyle, Escaping the Family Time Trap: A Practical Guide for Over-Busy Families, and numerous others.

David wrote Whose Birthday: An Introduction; Barbara wrote KEEPING CHRISTMAS: Ideas for celebrating a meaningful holiday for Alternatives.

Thomas Thangaraj

Kathleen Connolly has written several things for Alternatives:
A Different Kind of Wish List | Appropriate Christmas Gifts and Questionnaire | Closing the Season | “Light Shine in Deepest Night” Activities.

Break Forth into Joy: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle won best-of-class in Religion at the Dallas International Film Festival. It has a free study guide when you’re ready to use it at the your church or in your group. Video Version (on YouTube)

SIMPLIFYING FESTIVALS

See the Show Notes for episode 4, for a quick overview of Treasury of Celebrations, especially simplifying Fall Festivals.

Treasury of Celebrations is the last edition of a long-standing Alternatives staple, The Alternate Celebrations Catalog, first publishing in 1973, the year Alternatives was founded. Here’s a quick history overview. This last edition, a compilation of the six earlier editions, is called Treasury of Celebrations: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth (published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake, BC, Canada, best known for its Season of Creation curriculum).

QUICK OVERVIEW

• Treasury of Celebrations
• 1: Making Choices
• 2: Gifts
• 3: Celebrations
• 4: Rites of Passage

Part 1: Making Choices
• Simple Living
• Gift Giving
• Food and Celebration
• Getting Started
Part 2: Gifts
Part 3: Celebrations – We’ll discuss rites of passage, like birthdays and weddings, as well as winter, spring and summer celebrations in later episodes.

I will bring some of them up again in future episodes at appropriate times. If you’re eager, you can read them now or anytime for free online in the archives of SLW!

September-December

ADVENT

CHRISTMAS

Alternative Christmas Campaign
Christmas article index (scroll down)
Organizing a Festival
Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? (Story of Jason)

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Planning an Alternative Christmas Workshop
How to Organize an Alternative Christmas Community Festival

Most of the following are part of the upcoming “Whose Birthday?” radio series.

Let Jesus Come, Let Santa Go: audio workshop

UNPLUG the Christmas Machine: Leader’s Guide (audio and text)

The Celebration Revolution of Alexander Scrooge

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Carols with Justice sing-along

What Does Jesus Want for Christmas? (pageant)

Let’s Get Off the Christmas Roller-Coaster

Whose B’day? (5 of 24 editions have audio versions)

Other TEXT resources (no accompanying audio/visual)

15 Christmas Packets

An assortment of Advent/Christmas Calendars

Christmas Anthologies to read alone or aloud

Christmas Campaign Kit

Advent/Christmas Articles Index

Spirit of Simplicity: Quotes & Art: Celebrating Advent/Christmas

Worship Alternatives: Advent/Christmas

Thematic Index: Advent/Christmas/Epiphany

Alternatives’ Legacy Resource: Voluntary Simplicity Study/Action Guide also deals primarily with celebrations. Also, To Celebrate: Jan.-Feb. (catalog #6).

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PLANS

In episode 6, I begin the six-part adaptation of the well-known “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” which includes several of Alternatives’ audio shorts.

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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.

Thanks to John Pitney for music on this episode: “Learn to Live Simply So Others Can Simply Live” from “Walk Lightly on the Earth.”

This podcast is covered by the Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-and-share-alike license. To learn more about Creative Commons, click on its link on our web site home page.

MISSION

To learn more about SLW! – our mission, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2.

We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog four times a week.

We at Simple Living Works! believe that simple living really does work! Voluntary Simplicity, choosing to live simpler lives, is a faithful, satisfying and effective lifestyle. Contemporary faith-based simple living is guided by the five Life Standards of Living More with Less, the classic by Doris Janzen Longacre. I discussed those standards in episode 2.

The Mission of SLW! is “equipping people of faith to 1. challenge consumerism, 2. live justly and 3. celebrate responsibly.” The three parts of our Mission are elaborated in text and video at these links. We extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, which served from 1973-2011.

Simple Living Works! web site home page | THEMES/Seasons Index

Submission guidelines for Whose Birthday? 2013 | Issues 1-24

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Episode 4 :: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle – 1

August 29, 2013Advent/Christmas, Other SeasonsAlternatives, Break Forth into Joy, celebrate responsibly, challenge consumerism, faith, five Life Standards, John Pitney, Life Simply That Others May Simply Live, live justly, Living More with Less, Mission, simple living, simplifying Fall Festivals, Treasury of Celebrations, voluntary simplicity, Whose Birthday Is It Anyway?SLW-PODCAST

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 32:22 — 18.5MB)

In this episode. . .

Break Forth Into Joy: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle, part 1 + Simplifying Fall Festivals with Treasury of Celebrations

Hear the first part of Alternatives’ award-winning program Break Forth into Joy: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle, and then hear about a big resource for simplifying fall festivals, like Thanksgiving, Halloween and Advent.

Break Forth Into Joy! itself is 15-minutes. In the next episode hear three additional 10-minute bonus segments of people featured in this part. These additional sections have themes of freedom and possessions, family and children, and taking action. Though not specifically about Christmas, it is very relevant to Christmas.

NOTE: The program begins quietly by design. The volume increases quickly.

SIMPLIFYING FALL FESTIVALS

To meet the needs of those who plan ahead, I’ll make suggestions in advance and then in my SLW! blog I’ll repeat them closer to the date for the “spontaneous” folks. You may want to see my blog “Work the Plan.”

QUICK OVERVIEW

• Treasury of Celebrations
• 1: Making Choices
• 2: Gifts
• 3: Celebrations
• 4: Rites of Passage

Part 1: Making Choices
• Simple Living
o From the Beginning…
o If We Sell You Our Land, Love It – Attributed to Chief Seattle
o Reverence of Life: A view from the First Nations
o Ten Reasons for Choosing a Simpler Lifestyle
o Voluntary Simplicity: Lifestyle with a Future? – Duane S. Elgin [Wikipedia] (and Arnold Mitchell)
o Fundamental Change in Values
o The Psychology of Consumption
o How to Live Better With Less – If You Can Stand the People
o What Can One Person Do? Spread the Word!
• Gift Giving
o Giving and Receiving Gifts
o Gifts in the Consumer Society
o Double Your Gift of Love
o The Hidden Price Tag
o On Creative Deprivation
o Choosing and Using Toys
o Toys ARE Us! A Parent’s perspective
• Food and Celebration
o Hunger and the Lifestyle Connection
o Food and Celebrations
o Do You Serve Feelings or Food?
• Getting Started
o Family Transition is Half the Battle
o One Family’s Program for Change
o Celebrations in Extended, Single Parent, and Blended Families
o Women and Celebration: The Fable of Maybe-Maybe Land
o Socializing
o Alternative Checklist: How Much is Enough?
o The Shakertown Pledge
o Conversion: A Letter from Yola
Part 2: Gifts
• Gift planning
• Different Approaches to Gift-giving
• Plants: A Gift of Life
• Give A Tree!
• Making Gifts
• Woods Treasures
• Gift Ideas
• Ideas from Kids
• Make Your Own Greeting Cards
• Gift Wrapping Ideas
• More Gift Ideas
• Some of the Best Christmas Gifts
• Holiday Gifts from the Kitchen
• Books for Teenagers and Adults
• Children’s Books are Butterflies
• Beyond Disney, Toward Shalom with Books
• Storytelling
• Prime-time Storytelling
Part 3: Celebrations – We’ll discuss rites of passage, like birthdays and weddings, as well as winter, spring and summer celebrations in later episodes.

I will bring some of them up again in future episodes at appropriate times. If you’re eager, you can read them now or anytime for free online in the archives of SLW!

In the fall, September-December:

• Labor Day
• Autumn begins
• Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year)
• Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)
o At home for Yom Kippur
• Sukkot (Festival of Booths)
o At home for Sukkot
• Thanksgiving
o Observations
o Five grains of corn
o Thanksgiving in the woods
o Thanksgiving: Responsibilities of abundance
o Hunger
o celebrating Individually and as families
o celebrating As a Congregation
o Action ideas
o Study Sessions
o Cooperation
o Soup kitchen
o A garden
o A Thanksgiving Litany for a Garden
o Native foods
o Native Americans – suggestions for action
• World Food Day
o Resolution on world hunger
o Welcome to the Hunger Restaurant!
o Offering of Letters
• United Nations Day
o Telling the children
• Halloween
o Halloween Lock-In
o Community Pumpkin Patch
o All Hallow’s Eve
o Fall festival
o Family Halloween celebration
o Finding acceptable alternatives
o Community-building
o Hunger project
o A note instead of candy
o Party activity
• Remembrance Day: see Memorial Day
• Hanukkah (Feast of Dedication)
o Light in the subarctic darkness
o On combining Hanukkah and Christmas
o Hanukkah: Challenge for contemporary America

ADVENT

• Advent promises
• Advent workshop
• Advent wreath
• “Baby” tree ornaments
• Christmas cards
• Christmas catalogue
• Christmas open houses
• The cooperative alternative
• Family cup celebrations
• Gifts of Love
• Give gifts for self-reliance
• God’s idea of Christmas
• Greetings from the heart
• International Christmas
• It’s hard to be merry, sometimes
• Kids and Christmas
• More alternative rituals shared by families
• New traditions
• Our alternate Christmas celebration
• Peace notes at Advent
• People’s theatre
• The Shalom celebration
• St. Nicholas Day
• Stuffed ornaments
• Thoughts for Advent

CHRISTMAS

Alternative Christmas Campaign
Christmas article index (scroll down)
Organizing a Festival
Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? (Story of Jason)

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Planning an Alternative Christmas Workshop
How to Organize an Alternative Christmas Community Festival

Alternatives’ Legacy Resource: Voluntary Simplicity Study/Action Guide also deals primarily with celebrations.

Share your thoughts on this podcast and this episode. Email Feedback@SimpleLivingWorks.org [or SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com or SimpleLivingWorks2@gmail.com], leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.

PLANS

In episode 5, I’ll present part 2, the bonus segments of Break Forth into Joy: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle.

In later episodes you can hear the six-part adaptation of the well-known “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” which includes several of Alternatives’ audio shorts.

If you haven’t subscribed yet, we hope you will now through iTunes (or click here), Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. Please rate us in iTunes and leave a review.

Remember to like us on Facebook. Urge your friends to do the same.

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.

Thanks to John Pitney for music on this episode: “Learn to Live Simply So Others Can Simply Live” from “Walk Lightly on the Earth.”

This podcast is covered by the Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-and-share-alike license. To learn more about Creative Commons, click on its link on our web site home page.

MISSION

To learn more about SLW! – our mission, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2.

We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog four times a week.

Simple Living Works! web site home page | THEMES/Seasons Index

Submission guidelines for Whose Birthday? 2013 | Issues 1-24

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

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom. To SUBSCRIBE, click below: Notify me of new posts by email.

Contact us at Podcast AT SimpleLivingWorks DOT org (or our previous and still active SimpleLivingWorks AT yahoo DOT com and SimpleLivingWorks2 AT gmail DOT com).

Peace, Gerald, Chief SLW! Activist

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits.

Simple Living Works! Podcast

Extending the Mission and Resources of ALTERNATIVES

Category Archives: Other Seasons

Episode 5 :: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle – 2

Episode 4 :: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle – 1