As we wind up our week looking at overcoming consumerism this video came to mind. Why do we seem compelled to purchase certain things? When are we most vulnerable? How…
Advent and the Christmas season are racing towards us at warp speed and the hyper-consumerism that has already invaded our favourite stores is incredible. I hate it. And I find myself wanting…
It’s Valentine’s Day, to be honest not a celebration that I have ever really approved of. I see it as yet another commercial venture to encourage us to buy and…
This last weekend Tom and I visited Camano Island where the cross beams on our first Mustard Seed Village building is being installed. It is another small but exciting milestone…
This morning I am reblogging a post by Gerald Iverson. It first appeared on his blog as Living Fair Trade. Gerald describes himself as the chief activist of Simple Living Works which came…
“Listen! A farmer went out to plant some seed.” So begins one of my favourite parables, a parable that many of us are very familiar with. Some of the seed…
This morning two images have merged in my mind. This Martin Luther King quote from the Idealist and another quote from Randy Woodley’s book Shalom and the Community of Creation. When we…
