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Landfill Harmonic (Trailer)

Landfill Harmonic (Trailer)

By Jason Fowler on 02/02/2013

Cateura, Paraguay is a town essentially built on top of a landfill. When orchestra director Szaran and music teacher Favio set up a music program for the kids of Cateura, they soon have more students than they have instruments…Today, there’s an entire orchestra of assembled instruments, now called The Recycled Orchestra…

Posted in Videos | Tagged Community and Ecclesia, community renewal, Consumerism, creativity, films, inspiration, local action, movie, music, Poverty, practicing resurrection, recycling, redemption | Leave a response

HE WHO HAS THE GIFT OF
FRIENDS AND FAMILY 
IS RICH INDEED.HE WHO HAS THE GIFT OF
FRIENDS AND FAMILY 
IS RICH INDEED.

More With Less: A Post-Christmas Reflection

By Brian Boitmann on 12/30/2012

This year, we weren’t giving gifts. With the economy down and a recognition that there wasn’t anything we needed, we focused on each other rather than all the gifts we normally received.

Posted in Home and Family | Tagged christmas, Community and Ecclesia, Consumerism, family, friendship, Simplicity | Leave a response

Consumerism: the real war on Christmas

The Real War On Christmas

By Jason Fowler on 12/04/2012

He asked me why I thought there was not more of an outcry from Christian leaders against Consumerism in Christmas. He pointed out that most of what he has heard about are Christians taking a stand against “the war on Christmas”…

Posted in Voice of One Calling | Tagged Anti-Consumerism, christmas, Consumerism, crisis of consumerism, culture, Jesus | 4 Responses

Are we disciples of Jesus or are we just spiritual consumers?

When All Else Fails Try Jesus

By Jason Fowler on 07/10/2012

Maybe this could be a message to ourselves as the Church – “When All Else Fails Try Jesus’- when all our programs and methodologies for marketing and growing our churches has failed – maybe we will again return to simply learning and living as disciples of Jesus…

Posted in Community and Ecclesia, Features, Voice of One Calling | Tagged capitalism, church, churchianity, Community and Ecclesia, Consumerism, culture, ekklesia, GOD, Jesus, missional | 2 Responses

Is modern American culture rooted in the embodiment of the "seven deadly sins"?

American Virtues and the Seven Deadly Sins

By Bill Guerrant on 06/15/2012

Western culture has traditionally recognized “7 Deadly Sins.” There was a time when most people knew them by heart…These days those sins seem to characterize our society and, in some cases, are even celebrated as civic virtues…

Posted in Features, Society and Culture | Tagged America, christian faith, Consumerism, culture, fruits of the spirit, GOD, kingdom of GOD, Life In The Spirit, restoration of all things, seven deadly sins, virtue | Leave a response

We are called to create a culture of sharing both in and outside the church. (click for image source)

Embodying Our Faith: Creating A Culture of Sharing

By Brian Boitmann on 02/04/2012

In a culture where a person’s success is determined more often by the the things that we have, and the amount of each of them that we have, establishing a culture of sharing turns that entire notion on its head…

Posted in Community and Ecclesia, Features | Tagged Anti-Consumerism, christian community, Church Life, Community and Ecclesia, Consumerism, culture of sharing, ekklesia, embodying our faith, generosity, God's Economy, hospitality, Jesus, kingdom living, kingdom of GOD, materialism, sharing | Leave a response

This sewing machine is 90 years old and still works. Will your iPOD even work in 2015?

Mom’s “New” Singer Sewing Machine

By Tyler Amy on 01/11/2012

She inspected it from top to bottom, opening the drawers, admiring the ornate designs of this particular model…Mom’s “new” treadle sewing machine was made in September of 1917…This got me thinking: How many iPods are going to be in good working condition in the year 2105?

Posted in Technology | Tagged Appropriate Technology, Consumerism, heritage skills, self-reliant living, sewing machine, technology | Leave a response

Will we perceive Jesus' presence in the craziness of Christmas?

Missing Christ: Confessions of a Christmas Shopper

By Jason Fowler on 12/22/2011

For a split second, time and space froze. What if that word – ‘Christ’ – what if the Word became flesh right there in the store – what if he showed up at cash register number #17?…

Posted in Features, Money & Economics, Voice of One Calling | Tagged Advent, christian faith, christmas, Consumerism, economy, GOD, holidays, holy days, idols, incarnation, Jesus, mammon, money, shopping, spirituality | Leave a response

One of our favorite new books: Year of Plenty by Craig Goodwin

Year of Plenty (book review)

By Jason Fowler on 06/24/2011

Year of Plenty is an insightful, profound yet humorous narrative that provides a refreshing perspective on the intersection between Christian faith and issues of economy, environment, community, consumption, justice and sustainability…

Posted in Book Reviews, Features | Tagged american dream, Anti-Consumerism, book review, Christan faith and sustainability, Christian discipleship, christian faith, Christian faith and gardening, Community and Ecclesia, Consumerism, economy, environmentalism, farmers market, Gardening, global, global justice, GOD, Intentional Living, Jesus, justice, justice economy, local, localism, missional, sabbath economics, suburbs, Sustainability, Sustainable Living | 1 Response

The Household is the Microcosm of All Community (orginal art by Jean-François Millet (II))

The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 3)

By Thomas Turner on 01/26/2011

“A man who is in the traditional sense a good farmer is husbandman and husband, the begetter and conserver of the earth’s bounty, but he is also…a nurturer of life. His work is domestic: he is bound to the household…the household is the microcosm of all community.

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