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WHOSE Birthday?
This 4-episode series drawn from Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? #19 (loosely based on lectionary cycle C) is Simple Living Works’s annual Advent/Christmas/Epiphany resource for individuals, families and congregations.
We’re starting our non-consumer Christmas campaign early this year with episodes mid-month during the last four months of the year. HINT: If don’t want to wait, you can listen to and/or read each item at the links below.
To find resources referenced in each episode, go to the links in the TEXT version of each item. All the items are linked below. Or use the search engine in window #4 at SimpleLivingWorks.org.
10 Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas | SPANISH: 10 puntas
Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (index + selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)
#116, Part 1 (9/15/18)
TEXT
- Whatever Happened to Christmas?
- Why a Simpler Christmas?
- Weekly Family Time: How to Use These Reflections & Activities
- Top 10 Uses of “Whose Birthday?”
- More Exciting, Helpful Ways to Use “Whose Birthday?”
- Going Beyond “Whose Birthday?”
- Alternative Giving: What Jesus Wants for Christmas
AUDIO
1. What Happened to Christmas? (p.4)
2. Why a Simpler Christmas? (p.4)
3. Let Us Have a Truly Christ-like Christmas (p.5)
4. Weekly Family Time: How to Use These Reflections & Activities (p.5)
5. Top 10 Uses of Whose Birthday?– More Exciting, Helpful Ways to Use Whose Birthday? – Going Beyond Whose Birthday? (p.2, or p.17 in some versions)
*6. Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn)
Read BONUS Items at Whose Birthday? #19. They are not recorded nor included in the booklet.
Also Mentioned–Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold)
#117, Part 2 (10/15/18)
INSPIRING REFLECTIONS (with discussion questions)
TEXT
- My Hand-Make Advent Wreath
- I Am a Recovering Christmas Hater
- Strangers Invited in for Christmas
- A Christmas Cow
- Putting Christ in Christmas
- Christmas Dinner
- “Posada sin Fronteras” (Shelter without Borders)
AUDIO
8. My Hand-Make Advent Wreath (p.7) – Amy Frykholm
9. I Am a Recovering Christmas Hater (p.8) – Jessica Stevens
10. Strangers Invited in for Christmas (p.9) – Millard Fuller, Founder of Habitat for Humanity and Founder and President of The Fuller Center for Housing
11. A Christmas Cow (p.10) – Walter Wink
12. Putting Christ in Christmas (p.11) – John Hagberg
13. Christmas Dinner (p.12) – Jamie Norwich-McLennan
14. “Posada sin Fronteras” (Shelter out Borders) (p.13) – Ched Myers
#118, Part 3 (11/15/18)
TEXT
- The Spirit of St. Nicholas
- There’s a Camel in our Bathroom!
- Giving Circles
- Gifts of Kindness
- Reducing Christmas Chaos
- Enough, Already!
AUDIO
7. The Spirit of St. Nicholas (p.6) – David Holden
*15. God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)
FUN ACTIVITIES
16. There’s a Camel in our Bathroom! (p.14) – Nancy Christenson
17. Giving Circles (p.15) – Meg Cox.
18. Gifts of Kindness (p.18) – Becky White
19. Reducing Christmas Chaos (p.19) – Ann Dieleman
20. Enough, Already! (p.19) Mary Sharon Moore
#119, Part 4 (12/15/18)
TEXT
- Christmas Year-round
- Discover NO COST Gifts!
- New Cards from Old
- Peace in Any Language
- St. Nicholas on Parade
- New Christmas Traditions You Can Share
AUDIO
21. Christmas Year-round (p.20) – Gail McDonough
22. Discover NO COST Gifts! (p.21) – Richard L. Haid
23. New Cards from Old (p.22) – Gretchen Denton
24. Peace in Any Language (p.23) – Jerry Wrenn
25. St. Nicholas on Parade (p.24) – Rev. Celine A. Burke
26. New Christmas Traditions You Can Share (p.24) – Karen Boe
*27. O Baby Born in Bethlehem (Christmas hymn)
28. About Alternatives (pp. 3 & 25)
* from Sing Justice! Do Justice! collection – Diana Wooley, vocalist; Richard Steinbach, piano
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Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections Index: Advent/Christmas/Epiphany
Spanish Advent-Christmas Resources
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WHOSE Birthday? #30, online edition for 2018.
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Carols with Justice – Entire collection of 15 carols (new words to familiar tunes) as text and audio || Jill Miller and DeeEtta Riley || Pageant based on these carols
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Carols Sing-Along
These new stanzas help to connect Jesus’ birth with our lives through social justice, care of Creation, and discipleship as simpler living.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to this collection
- Hints on formatting these texts for your use.
- Why Carols with Justice
- List of Carols
- Introduction to the Carols
- How to Use this Resource
- The Carols
- Angels We Have Heard on High
- Away in a Manger
- Go Tell it on the Mountain
- Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful
- It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
- God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
- Angels, from the Realms of Glory
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- Once in Royal David’s City
- Silent Night, Holy Night!
- What Child Is This
- Oh, Come, Oh, Come, Emmanuel
- The First Noel
- Deck the Halls
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- A Statement on Biblical Justice
- When we sing favorite carols, let’s add justice to the traditional verses.
Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (index + selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)
Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast
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The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE
- What Is The NUDGE? / How It Works / How Do It Get It: Send NUDGE to SimpleLivingWorks@Yahoo.com / How Do It Share It / More About Holidays
- 2018
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Recent Responses to All SLW! Media
Welcome to the other podcast I co-host/produce, The Common Good Podcast.
Earlier Episodes
- The Casady’s at the Calif. Climate Summit–Actions on Climate Science When National Decision-Makers Are Hostile and Big Business Won’t Do Nearly Enough
- Jay Moses–How a Local Church Invites in Multiple Faiths to Influence One Another
- Grace Gyori, from Christian imperialism to liberation for all–a missionary’s journey (NOTE: Our new system plays automatically. To pause the audio, click pause on the player at the bottom of the Show Notes.)
- Bill Ryerson, part 1: Crises Caused by Exploding Population // part 2: Reducing Population Through Methods That Work //
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SLW! Recommends Literacy Service
This service contains books (paper, eBooks, audio), video (DVD, internet), audio (CD, MP3), blogs, podcasts, sites. These are somewhat current resources. For classic resources, visit Study/Activity/Action Guides. For more ideas, go to Getting Started. Also see Champions of Simple Living and other worthwhile Links.
Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar is included in the Daily Nudge.
Non-Conform Freely Celebrations for fall season Months 9-12
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The complete 3-1/2 hour straight talk between Tony Campolo and Shane Claiborne about simple living and global justice — episodes 20-27.Champions of Simple Living Today
Vicki Robin, Cecile Andrews, John de Graaf, Duane Elgin and more!
Simple Living blog/podcast/site preview service
Treasury of Celebrations: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth, the last edition of the classic series Alternate Celebrations Catalogs.
Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold) | Share the Joy of a Simpler Lifestyle Through Speeches, Workshops, Events, Study/Action Groups, Simplicity Circles and Social Media + BONUS: Social Media Supplement // Self-Starters Needed! // Free coaching for groups on the internet
Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections Index: Advent/Christmas/Epiphany | Lent/Easter | Other Seasons | Anytime/Non-Seasonal | Music | Art | Audio | Video | Spanish | Living More with Less
Spirit of Simplicity: Quotes and Art for Simpler Living and Global Justice (Foreword by Cecile Andrews) | Introduction | How to Use This Collection | QUOTES | ART | En Español (all)
10 Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas | SPANISH: 10 puntas
Jubilee Economics / The OneEarth Project colleague Lee Van Ham’s trilogy 1. Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, and 2. From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable, part of The OneEarth Project. Also, hear The Common Good Podcast, which I co-host and produce. || NEW three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals || Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham, including TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 || Lee’s Slide Show
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*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.