Category: abundance

Eliminating deficits

March 11, 2010 | No comments yet

If you’re not aware, I had a new audio recording posted on the Daily Lift two days ago. Click below for a link to a brief talk on “Eliminating Deficits”

Live in a surplus not a deficit

February 24, 2010 | 3 comments

There are reports of deficits, deficits, and more deficits everywhere you read or look in the news media these days. Have you noticed? The US federal government deficit is so large and numbing, that one trillion dollars lost here, another

Sufficiency

January 14, 2010 | 2 comments

Here’s a link to a thoughtful blog posting titled, “The Surprising Truth of Sufficiency.” The author, Lynne Twist, doesn’t give credit to a divine source, but still offers some liberating views that help dissolve the belief that we always need

Is there something better than consumerism?

January 12, 2010 | 2 comments

Here’s an interesting article written by Amitai Etzioni for The New Republic and reprinted in Utne Reader, on the subject of society getting too weighed down in consumerism. One might not agree with all his conclusions, but he does a

Prosperity gospel and the recession

December 28, 2009 | 8 comments

I read an eye-catching article titled, “Did Christianity Cause the Crash?” in The Atlantic. Hanna Rosin, the author, argues that the prosperity gospel preached to tens of millions of Christians, promoted excess financial risk-taking that contributed to the housing bubble