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Living Simply with Kids

This comes from the latest MSA Seed Sampler ezine.
Living Simply with Kids

In certain Christian circles, simplicity is deemed a high virtue of a faithful life. I did an interview with a group of ultra-cool college students who live so simply, they get their food from dumpsters. That’s all very well for single college students. What [...]

Friendship trips vs. mission trips

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The Revolution starts at home

 
The Revolution starts at home is the title for the workshop my family will be facilitating at The New Conspirators conference, or better yet Festival of the Imagination. Our purpose will be to share a bit of how do we embodied the revolutionary and radical teachings of Jesus in our everyday life at home.  More than been [...]

What Would Jesus Buy - About the Film

What Would Jesus Buy

What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the [...]

CWC Texts: The Really Really Free Market

CWC Texts : The Really Really Free Market
Once a month two hundred or more people from all walks of life gather at the commons in the center of our town. They bring everything from jewelry to firewood to give away, and take whatever they want. There are booths offering bicycle repair, hairstyling, even tarot readings. [...]

Buy Nothing Day - Adbusters

Buy Nothing Day - Adbusters

A 24 hour moratorium on consumer spending - participate by not participating
This November 23rd, environmentalists, social activists and concerned citizens in as many as 65 countries will hit the streets for a 24-hour consumer fast in celebration of the 15th annual Buy Nothing Day, a global cultural phenomenon that originated in [...]

The Ecclesia Collective » make something day

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make something day
In response to the over-consumptive habits of western culture, Adbusters magazine has been promoting Buy Nothing Day for years now. The Friday after Thanksgiving is typically marked as the highest buying day for Americans. But we live in a world that can no longer handle our [...]

Teenage Affluenza

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Via Christine Sine

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Pres. Evo Morales at The Daily Show

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Shock Doctrine

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Naomi Klein  - Shock Doctrine

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