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Episode 13 :: Let’s Get Ready for a Simpler Lent & Easter

Show Notes

3-A551In this episode. . .

Let’s Get Ready for a Simpler, More Meaningful Lent and Easter – Click this Index and follow along as you listen.

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom. Individual Episode Index (or see the list at the bottom of these notes)

COMING next episode: Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold) + Social Media Supplement

Lent/Easter Resources Site Map

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

Lent/Easter

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Mentions in This Episode

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

Guides for Sharing These Resources: School of Layout | Reaching Out Through the Media

Overflow Project 50-Day Challenge | my blog SIMPLIFY + GIVE + CHANGE = WATER

Resources: Bring Simpler Living to Your Group! | Membership | More Ideas & Inspiration!

Testimonials/Feedback/Comments/Response

Hard copies of Alternatives’ resources — paper, CD, DVD — will be available soon at nominal cost from ELCA Archives (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America), 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 • (847) 690-9410 • archives@elca.org • 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., M-F. An appointment in advance of visit is advised. NOTE: This is not the ELCA headquarters bldg.

Mentions in Recent Episodes

Valerie Weaver-Zercher, editor of Living More with Less, 30th Anniversary Edition + Preparing for Winter Celebrations + Daily Simpler Living Alternative Calendar

World Community Cookbooks: More with Less Extending the Table | Simply in Season & Simply in Season Children’s Cookbook — all from MennoMedia/Herald Press

Take-Back-Your-Time Day

Contribute to WHOSE Birthday? 2014 - Submission Guidelines

This Advent/Christmas/Epiphany resource for families, individuals and churches or groups is for your personal inspiration, community education and sharing. Submit ART or an ARTICLE for this online-only edition. | Issues #1-25 | Prepare something while your memories and motivation is still warm. Although this resource is not available in print, you may make all the copies you choose. It is covered by Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.

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

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.

To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — listen to episodes #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 several times a week.

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

Individual Episode Index: #1-3: Getting Acquainted | #4-5: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle | #6-11: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? | #12: Living More with Less UPDATED

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

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits.

*GRAPHIC: Spirit of Simplicity: Chapter 3: Celebrating Lent/Easter #3-A551

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.

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 12 :: Living More with Less UPDATED

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In this episode. . .

Interview with Valerie Weaver-Zercher, editor of Living More with Less, 30th Anniversary Edition + Preparing for Winter Celebrations + Any Year Simple Living Alternative Calendar

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom. For previous episodes, see the list at the bottom of these notes.

Listen to all six WHOSE Birthday? episodes during the 12 Days of Christmas, from Christmas Day to Epiphany Day  — privately or with your family.

COMING next episode: Preparing for Lent and Easter

Mentions in this episode:

World Community Cookbooks: More with Less Extending the Table | Simply in Season & Simple in Season Children’s Cookbook — all from MennoMedia/Herald Press

Take-Back-Your-Time Day

Ms. Cheap: 10 Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas | 10 Fun, Free Family Things to Do at Christmas

Want to Contribute to WHOSE Birthday 2014? Submission Guidelines

This Advent/Christmas/Epiphany resource for families, individuals and churches or groups is for your personal inspiration, community education and sharing. Submit ART or an ARTICLE for this online-only edition. | Issues #1-25 | Prepare something while your memories and motivation is still warm. Although this resource is not available in print, you may make all the copies you choose. It is covered by Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.

Resources: Bring Simpler Living to Your Group! | Membership | More Ideas & Inspiration!

Testimonials/Feedback/Comments/Response

Hard copies of Alternatives’ resources — paper, CD, DVD — will be available soon at nominal cost from ELCA Archives (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America), 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 • (847) 690-9410 • archives@elca.org • 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., M-F. An appointment in advance of visit is advised. NOTE: This is not the ELCA headquarters bldg.

Mentions in Recent Episodes

Whose Birthday Is it, Anyway? part 6 – FINALE – adaptation of Alternatives’ best-known resource for Advent and Christmas, featuring The Celebration Revolution of Alexander Scrooge* + Carols with Justice + Reflections + Real Life Experiences (Spanish version)

Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? ’13

Simple Living Works! web site home page | Themes/Seasons Index
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10 Tips for Simpler, More Meaningful Easter | Celebrations | SPANISH: 10 puntas

For Advent/Christmas/Epiphany SEASONAL HELPS, including links to AV and Text resources, see episode 6.

SEASONAL HELPS from *Treasury of Celebrations: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth:  Winter Festivals: Jan.-April, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Day (Jan. 15) and Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14) | LENT | EASTER

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.

To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — listen to episodes #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 several times a week.

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

Individual Episode Index: #1-3: Getting Acquainted | #4-5: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle | #6-11: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? | #12: Living More with Less UPDATED

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

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits. Guest Voice: Rita Iversen. Carols with Justice: Jill Miller, vocals; DeeEtta Riley, keyboard. The Whose Birthday? radio series, originally produced by Peter Iversen, has been slightly edited to remove dated information.

*GRAPHIC: Living More with Less, 30th Anniversary edition, Herald Press

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.

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 11 :: Whose Birthday?-6 FINALE

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Listen to all six WHOSE Birthday? episodes during the 12 Days of Christmas, from Christmas Day to Epiphany Day  — privately or with your family.

In this episode. . .

Whose Birthday Is it, Anyway? part 6 – a radio adaptation of Alternatives’ best-known resource for Advent and Christmas. This episode features:

The Celebration Revolution of Alexander Scrooge* + Carols with Justice + Reflections + Real Life Experiences (Spanish version)

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom. For previous episodes, see the list at the bottom of these notes.

COMING next episode: Interview with Valerie Weaver-Zercher, editor of Living More with Less, 30th Anniversary Edition + Preparing for Winter Celebrations + Any Year Alternatives Calendar

Mentions in this episode:

Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?

This Advent and Christmas Resource for Families, Individuals and Churches is for your personal inspiration, community education and sharing. This online-only edition for 2013 is a work-in-progress. You can still submit ART or an ARTICLE.

Want to Contribute? Submission Guidelines

Issues 1-25

Although this resource is not available in print, you may make all the copies you choose. It is covered by Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.

Table of Contents

Reflections & Activities

Fear Not series of six GRAPHICS by Doyle Burbank-Williams from Worship Alternatives. Also see Be (Un)Afraid, Be Very (Un)Afraid! by Bob Sitze.

My Advent Adventure I-Want-To-Go-Deeper Daily Guide

Hand-made Gifts Are Best

Advent Series #1: Unwrapping Christmas in a Different Paradigm (5 parts)

Advent Series #2: The Unholy Family of Christmas (6 parts)

Humorous Christmas Art

10 Tips to Escape the Stifling Comfort Zone

Whose Birthday? How-To

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Coming Home to God: Meditation VIDEO
Coming Home to the Advent Story: PODCAST

Advent/Christmas music from Sing Justice! Do Justice!

Testimonials/Feedback/Comments/Response

Hard copies of Alternatives’ resources — paper, CD, DVD — will be available soon at nominal cost from ELCA Archives (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America), 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 • (847) 690-9410 • archives@elca.org • 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., M-F. An appointment in advance of visit is advised. NOTE: This is not the ELCA headquarters bldg.

Mentions in recent episodes:

The Story of Jason + Thoughts While NOT Listening to the Christmas Story +10 Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas + The Search for Meaning: Beyond a Commercialized World by Christine Sine + Share Simple Living with Home Decorations + The Christmas Game + 10 Free, Fun Family Things to Do at Christmas + Carols with Justice TEXT  + Sing-along (text and audio) + Consumo Must Go! (skit) + What Does JESUS Want for Christmas?

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

For SEASONAL HELPS, including links to AV and Text resources, see episode 6. 

SEASONAL HELPS from *Treasury of Celebrations: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth:  ADVENT | CHRISTMAS | Winter Festivals: Jan.-April

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.

To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — listen to episodes #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

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

Individual Episode Index: #1-3: Getting Acquainted | #4-5: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle | #6-11: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?

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

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits. Guest Voice: Rita Iversen. Carols with Justice: Jill Miller, vocals; DeeEtta Riley, keyboard. The Whose Birthday? radio series, originally produced by Peter Iversen, has been slightly edited to remove dated information.

*GRAPHIC: Celebration Revolution of Alexander Scrooge, Executive Producer, Bob Kochtitzky, founder of Alternatives

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.

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 10 :: Whose Birthday?-5

3-A517In this episode. . .

Whose Birthday Is it, Anyway? part 5 – a radio adaptation of Alternatives’ best-known resource for Advent and Christmas. This episode features:

The Story of JasonThoughts While NOT Listening to the Christmas Story + Carols with Justice: New versions of Once in Royal David’s City, Silent Night +  Reflections + Real Life Experiences (Spanish version)

To LISTEN, click the player near the top or the bottom. For previous episodes, see the list at the bottom of these notes.

COMING next episode: The Celebration Revolution of Alexander Scrooge +  Reflections  & Real Life Experience

MENTIONS in this episode:

Till Justice is Done: A true story in search of the truth – by Diana Eiranova Kyle

Alternatives’ SPANISH resources for Advent/Christmas, Lent/Easter, weddings

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

Earth Mama’s new music CD A Sense of Place

Hard copies of Alternatives’ resources — paper, CD, DVD — will be available soon at nominal cost from ELCA Archives (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America), 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 • (847) 690-9410 • archives@elca.org • 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., M-F. An appointment in advance of visit is advised. NOTE: This is not the ELCA headquarters bldg.

MENTIONS in recent episode:

Share Simple Living with Home Decorations | The Christmas Game | 10 Free, Fun Things to Do with Your Family at Christmas | 10 Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas | The Search for Meaning: Beyond a Commercialized World by Christine Sine | Consumo Must Go! (skit) | What Does JESUS Want for Christmas? | Advent/Christmas music from Sing Justice! Do Justice!

Carols with Justice TEXT  + Sing-along (text and audio) – New Versions of Away in a Manger,  It Came Upon the Midnight Clear,  Angels from the Realms of Glory, What Child Is This, God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen, others

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WHOSE Birthday Is It, Anyway? 2013

Want to contribute ART or an ARTICLE? It’s not too late. It’ an online work-in-progress. | Submission Guidelines Issues 1-25

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SEASONAL HELPS from *Treasury of Celebrations: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth – September-December | ADVENT | CHRISTMAS

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.

In episode 11, I conclude the six-part adaptation of the well-known “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” which includes several of Alternatives’ audio shorts.

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

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

Individual Episode Index: #1-3: Getting Acquainted | #4-5: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle | #6-11: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?

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

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits. Guest Voices: Rita, Angela and Pete Iversen; Melinda Zobel [post #219]. Carols with Justice: Jill Miller, soprano; DeeEtta Riley, keyboard. The Whose Birthday? radio series, originally produced by Peter Iversen, has been slightly edited to remove dated information.

GRAPHIC: Whose Birthday? from Spirit of Simplicity: Quotes and Art for Simpler Living and Global Justice: Chap. 3: Celebrating Advent & Christmas #517

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.

Copyright: 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.

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

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Whose Birthday Is it, Anyway? A radio adaptation of Alternatives’ best-known resource for Advent and Christmas. This episode features: What Does JESUS Want for Christmas? + Reflections

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom. For previous episodes, see the list at the bottom of these notes.

COMING next episode: “10 Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas.” + Reflection + Real Life Experience

Mentions in this episode:

The Christmas Game

10 Free, Fun Things to Do with Your Family at Christmas

Carols with Justice TEXT  + Sing-along (text and audio):New version of  Angels We Have Heard on High, The First Noel, O Little Town of Bethlehem  

Consumo Must Go! (skit)

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Some of our resources have MEDIA RELEASES and BLOG POSTS that will help you recruit helpers for an event/activity. Then use them in newsletters, web sites, email blasts, etc. to bring people to the activity/event. Media Release Index

For SEASONAL HELPS, including links to AV and Text resources, see episode 6.

SEASONAL HELPS from *Treasury of Celebrations: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth – September-December | ADVENT | CHRISTMAS

Most of Alternatives’ AV resources are part of this “Whose Birthday?” radio series. See episode 6 for a list. NEW – Advent/Christmas music from Sing Justice! Do Justice!

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In episode 9, I continue the six-part adaptation of the well-known “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” which includes several of Alternatives’ audio shorts.

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 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.

To access individual previous episodes: #1: Getting Acquainted | #2: 5 Life Standards | #3: Saga of Simply Enough | #4: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle-1 | #5: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle-2 | #6: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?-1 | #7: Whose Birthday?-2 (of 6)

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

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits. Guest Voices: Rita Iversen; Angela Iversen and children from the Sioux City Junior Community Theatre. Carols with Justice: Jill Miller, soprano; DeeEtta Riley, keyboard. The Whose Birthday? radio series, originally produced by Peter Iversen, has been slightly edited to remove dated information. GRAPHIC: Angela and Gabbie recording. 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.

Copyright: 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.

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

Episode 9 :: Whose Birthday?-4

967-Nativity OrnamentIn this episode. . .

Whose Birthday Is it, Anyway? A radio adaptation of Alternatives’ best-known resource for Advent and Christmas. This episode features:  10 Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas + Reflections by Esther Armstrong + The Search for Meaning: Beyond a Commercialized World by Christine Sine

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom. For previous episodes, see the list at the bottom of these notes.

COMING next episode: Thoughts While NOT Listening to the Christmas Story + Reflection + Real Life Experience

Mentions in this episode:

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

Share Simple Living with Home Decorations

The Christmas Game

10 Free, Fun Things to Do with Your Family at Christmas

Carols with Justice TEXT  + Sing-along (text and audio)

Consumo Must Go! (skit)

What Does JESUS Want for Christmas?

* * *

Some of our resources have MEDIA RELEASES and BLOG POSTS that will help you recruit helpers for an event/activity. Then use them in newsletters, web sites, email blasts, etc. to bring people to the activity/event. Media Release Index

For SEASONAL HELPS, including links to AV and Text resources, see episode 6. NEW – Advent/Christmas music from Sing Justice! Do Justice!

SEASONAL HELPS from *Treasury of Celebrations: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth – September-December | ADVENT | CHRISTMAS

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PLANS

In episode 10, I continue the six-part adaptation of the well-known “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” which includes several of Alternatives’ audio shorts.

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 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.

To access individual previous episodes: #1: Getting Acquainted | #2: 5 Life Standards | #3: Saga of Simply Enough | #4: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle-1 | #5: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle-2 | #6: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?-1 | #7: Whose Birthday?-2 | #8: Whose Birthday?-3 (of 6)

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

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits. Guest Voices: Rita, Angela and Pete Iversen; Melinda Zobel [post #219]. Carols with Justice: Jill Miller, soprano; DeeEtta Riley, keyboard. The Whose Birthday? radio series, originally produced by Peter Iversen, has been slightly edited to remove dated information. GRAPHIC: Nativity Ornament from Worship Alternatives: Art #967.

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.

Copyright: 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.

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

Episode 8 :: Whose Birthday?-3

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Whose Birthday Is it, Anyway? A radio adaptation of Alternatives’ best-known resource for Advent and Christmas. This episode features: What Does JESUS Want for Christmas? + Reflections

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom. For previous episodes, see the list at the bottom of these notes.

COMING next episode: “10 Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas.” + Reflection + Real Life Experience

Mentions in this episode:

The Christmas Game

10 Free, Fun Things to Do with Your Family at Christmas

Carols with Justice TEXT  + Sing-along (text and audio)

Consumo Must Go! (skit)

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Some of our resources have MEDIA RELEASES and BLOG POSTS that will help you recruit helpers for an event/activity. Then use them in newsletters, web sites, email blasts, etc. to bring people to the activity/event. Media Release Index

For SEASONAL HELPS, including links to AV and Text resources, see episode 6.

SEASONAL HELPS from *Treasury of Celebrations: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth – September-December | ADVENT | CHRISTMAS

Most of Alternatives’ AV resources are part of this “Whose Birthday?” radio series. See episode 6 for a list. NEW – Advent/Christmas music from Sing Justice! Do Justice!

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In episode 9, I continue the six-part adaptation of the well-known “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” which includes several of Alternatives’ audio shorts.

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 to email notices, click Comments below, then check  

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To access individual previous episodes: #1: Getting Acquainted | #2: 5 Life Standards | #3: Saga of Simply Enough | #4: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle-1 | #5: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle-2 | #6: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?-1 | #7: Whose Birthday?-2 (of 6)

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

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits. Guest Voices: Rita Iversen; Angela Iversen and children from the Sioux City Junior Community Theatre. Carols with Justice: Jill Avery, soprano; DeeEtta Riley, keyboard. The Whose Birthday? radio series, originally produced by Peter Iversen, has been slightly edited to remove dated information. GRAPHIC: Angela and Gabbie recording. 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.

Copyright: 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.

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

Episode 7 :: Whose Birthday?-2

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Whose Birthday Is it, Anyway? A radio adaptation of Alternatives’ best-known resource for Advent and Christmas. This episode features: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas + Reflections

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom. For previous episodes, see the list at the bottom of these notes.

COMING next episode: “What Does JESUS Want for Christmas?” + Reflection + Real Life Experience

Christian Sine of Mustard Seed Associates offers a blog series for the Advent season. (Also, MSA contributions to Whose Birthday? —  Reflections for Advent and the Christmas Season by Tom Sine,  The Search for Meaning: Beyond a Commercialized World by Christine, and I Am a Recovering Christmas Hater. by MSA volunteer/staffer Jessica Stevens)

Worth meeting: Leah Kostamo, Earthkeeper, storyteller and author of Planted: A Story of Creation, Calling and Community.

Some of our resources have MEDIA RELEASES and BLOG POSTS that will help you recruit helpers for an event/activity. Then use them in newsletters, web sites, email blasts, etc. to bring people to the activity/event.

For SEASONAL HELPS, including links to AV and Text resources, see episode 6.

SEASONAL HELPS from 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 Seasons of the Spirit curriculum) — September-December | ADVENT | CHRISTMAS

Most of Alternatives’ AV resources are part of this “Whose Birthday?” radio series. See episode 6 for a list. NEW – Advent/Christmas music from Sing Justice! Do Justice!

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

PLANS

In episode 8, I continue 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.

EarthMama, whose music begins this episode has a new CD A Sense of Place. Song samples will soon be posted at EarthMama.org.

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.

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 to email notices, click Comments below, then check  

To access individual previous episodes: #1: Getting Acquainted | #2: 5 Life Standards | #3: Saga of Simply Enough | #4: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle-1 | #5: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle-2 | #6: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?-1 (of 6)

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

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits. Guest Voices: Rita Iversen; The Whose Birthday? radio series, originally produced by Peter Iversen, has been slightly edited to remove dated information. GRAPHIC: Spirit of Simplicity: Art: Celebrating Advent/Christmas #3-A878

Episode 6 :: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?-1

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In this episode. . .

Whose Birthday Is it, Anyway? A radio adaptation of Alternatives’ best-known resource for Advent and Christmas. This episode features: Let’s Get Off the Christmas Roller-Coaster  (by K. DiAn Kempf Jones, inspired by the book UNPLUG the Christmas Machine) + Reflections, an Alternative Giving letter and making a Christmas Tree-Shirt

COMING next episode: Whose Birthday? – 2, featuring “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” Reflection + Real Life Experience

SEASONAL HELPS from  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)

September-December | ADVENT | CHRISTMAS

Most of the following AV resources are part of this “Whose Birthday?” radio series.

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.

SUBSCRIBE through iTunesStitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. Please rate us in iTunes and leave a review. We’d love to get to know you as a subscriber to this podcast and to the several blogs we post new each week. Subscriptions are FREE and they keep you current automatically when we post something new. 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. 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.

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 consumerism2. 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, 1973-2011. 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:  

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

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits. Guest Voices: Rita Iversen; Three friends: Angela Iversen, Jaronika Dancy and Gabby Preciado. Photo credit (Christmas Tree-Shirt and kids): Jana Fickbohm. The Whose Birthday? radio series, originally produced by Peter Iversen, has been slightly edited to remove dated information.

Episode 5 :: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle – 2

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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 LifestyleEscaping 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

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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).

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

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.

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

We’d love to get to know you as a subscriber to this podcast and to the several blogs we post new each week. Subscriptions are FREE and they keep you current automatically when we post something new. 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.

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 consumerism2. 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

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:  

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

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits.