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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

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Show Notes

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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.

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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: 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 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)

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.

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.

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.

TOPICS
Activism Literacy
Celebrating Literacy
Economic Literacy
Environmental Literacy
Family/Children Literacy
Financial Literacy
Food, Water and Agriculture Literacy
Happiness Literacy
Health/Medical Literacy
Historical Literacy
Media Literacy
Peace/War/Militarism/Empire Literacy
Political Literacy
Spiritual/Faith Literacy
Time and Work Literacy
General

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.]

Last Episode

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

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Indiebound or Amazon.

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.

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.

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