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**Following the teachings of the Living Christ, we are an open, loving, and affirming community.
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Category Archives: Messages
advent week four day two
The cries of the poor and hungry are never far from any of the authors of the Bible. Compassion runs through the Biblical narrative from beginning to end. In the next to last chapter of the last book of … Continue reading →
Advent 2009, Week Three
Preparing for the coming of the Lord does not mean turning our backs on the world, opting out, becoming monks. We all have to work, to buy, to save, and to consume. We must start where we are, whether … Continue reading →
Advent 2009, Week Three, Day Four
Advent 2009 – A World In Waiting Week Three – A New Morality Day Four – A False Dawn Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk – a formidable trio. More or less contemporaries. Prophets of doom, who, with the most violent … Continue reading →
Advent 2009, Week Three, Day Three
…since the Protestant reformation, a Puritan ethic has virtually sanctified hard work and savings, while deferring gratification and treating pleasure with suspicion. Now, in an age where consumer goods are available in abundance, the challenge may be to see these … Continue reading →
Advent 2009, Week Three, Day Two
Although we are infinitely more prosperous now than we were even fifty years ago let alone in Smith’s time are we happier? Economists, such as Tibor Scitovsky, began to express doubts over a quarter of a century ago. In his … Continue reading →
Advent Week Three Day One
In modern times the sense of citizenship has played an important role as a crucial backdrop for economics, including for the philosophy of Adam Smith and for the perspective of the founders of the American Republic. The ‘pursuit of happiness’ … Continue reading →
Advent III
The hope of Advent is described by the prophets as a dawning of a new age, marked by peace and plenty, by banqueting and feasting, by security and rest. Don’t let the “new age” handle upset you. It is … Continue reading →
Advent 2009, Week Two, Day Six
But the first set of obstacles may be not with our structures but with ourselves – our attachment to the ‘normal’, whether old or new. In other words we need to address the things within us that stifle hope … Continue reading →
Advent 2009, Week Two Day Five
One of the most basic features of the real economy is water. Water is, quite simply, a matter of life and death, whether it is a case of too little (drought) or too much (flooding). The very first words of … Continue reading →
advent 2009, week two, day 3
Thinking of investing in an ethical fund? If seeking even higher returns is what you are after perhaps we could interest you in a ‘sin portfolio’? A sin portfolio consists, typically, of shares in gambling, tobacco and alcohol, arms and … Continue reading →
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