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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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.
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agrarian, Christian agrarian, Community and Ecclesia, Consumerism, culture, culturemaking, family, farming, household, industrial agriculture, intellectual agrarian, local, local culture, Mad Farmer, marriage, place, poetry, society, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Living, Wendell Berry |
By Tom Fuerst on 12/05/2010
If we want to redeem Christmas, we must redeem Advent. And it cannot be one or two of us, it must be a community that together decides that waiting, repenting, expecting, mourning, and longing for more is better than all the promises of Black Friday and Christmas morning…
Posted in Features, Society and Culture | Tagged Advent, Anti-Consumerism, Christian Holy Days, christmas, Consumerism, culture, holidays, Jesus |
By David Alan Black on 09/28/2010
We tried to imitate [Jesus] in the 1960s…When I was a teenager I thought this meant going barefooted and having long hair. Today I’m finding that the call to discipleship is more expensive. It demands that I turn a deaf ear to the seductive force of materialism and the ‘American Way’…
Posted in Features, Life In The Spirit, Society and Culture | Tagged american dream, American Empire, christian faith, Christianity, Christianity and culture, Consumerism, Dave Black, David Alan Black, discipleship, Jesus, Justice, kingdom of GOD, missional living, whole-life discipleship |
By Ragan Sutterfield on 03/23/2010
Not long ago I had to decide—new cell phone, no cell phone; smart phone, plain phone…I found the most basic free phone I could—one that could make calls, text with difficulty, and maybe survive my abuse. In making this choice I was choosing much more than a cell phone—I was choosing a different form of life…
Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Features, Technology | Tagged capitalism, Christian faith and technology, Consumerism, holiness, Simple Living, technology |
By Jason Fowler on 03/01/2010
In the realm of church and faith we absorb sermons, buy our Christian books and music (my favorite!), our evangelistic T-shirts and specialty Bibles…Maybe Consumerism is the real religion here.
Posted in Features, Society and Culture, Voice of One Calling | Tagged Anti-Consumerism, Consumerism, consumerism and Christian faith, greenwashing, What Would Jesus Buy? |
By Ragan Sutterfield on 01/06/2010
One result of the consumer economy has been a weakening of desire and a diluting of pleasure. This may seem counter-intuitive at first because desire is all around us after all…
Posted in Agrarian Notebook | Tagged Anti-Consumerism, Chesterton, Christian hedonism, commercialism, Consumerism, economy, hedonism |
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