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Solidarity and Poverty

[blockquote type=”center”]What does solidarity with the poor look like when you’re trying to avoid generational poverty?[/blockquote]   This is a question I’ve been sitting with for awhile now. And I read this article earlier today that made me think some things.   I was born in 1981, so I’m just barely a millennial, and my…

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The Grind of Endless Production

[blockquote type=”center”]”The Solomonic achievement was in part made possible by oppressive social policy…Fundamental to social policy was the practice of forced labor, in which at least to some extent subjects existed to benefit the state or the political economy….it was unmistakably the policy of the regime to mobilize and claim the energies of people for…

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Food as a Tool of Control

[blockquote type=”center”]”The royal policy is to accomplish a food monopoly. In that ancient world as in any contemporary world, food is a weapon and a tool of control.”(Journey to the Common Good 5)[/blockquote] Buffalo was the Native Americans’ main food source. So….I wonder what the empire of the United States did (and continues to do). “One…

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God Has A Plan, and Other Useless Advice

  He interviewed for a job today.  An interview we thought about turning down.  Because the salary turned out to be much lower than the advertised amount. But how do you turn down what you need?  So we crunched the numbers, and surprise, surprise, realized we could live on less than we thought.  We could…

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How Do We Become People Who Love?

  It’s one thing to say ‘we need to steward well.’  It’s another thing to do it, and to do it naturally.  How do we become people who are wise givers, who love well?  How can we counter the consumptive ways that are always working to shape us into consumptive people? How can we give…

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Stewarding Our Love

  A social imaginary, as described in Desiring the Kingdom, is the myths and narratives, stories and understandings we tell ourselves that form how we view the world. A prevalent one that we have in our culture is ‘I deserve what I have because I worked hard for this.”  “I have found that the poorer…

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