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Cult, Culture, and Cultivation
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:31pm | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum When we separate pleasure from responsibility, we defy nature at our own risk. "It is ...

A Culture of Debt
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum Does economic growth depend on consumer spending? Another day older and deeper in debt.” I ...

A Simple Christmas
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:36pm | Type: Magazine Article

Amy Ard Learning something new by buying nothing new. In the past, the bulk of my Christmas shopping has usua ...

What Would Jesus Buy?
Originally Posted: 05/13/2011 - 9:43am | Type: Magazine Article

Walter Brueggemann Rev. Billy and his "Church of Stop Shopping" preach the gospel of love, anti-consumerism, and radical neighbo ...

Fashion Conscious
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Molly Marsh Clothing the world with justice. When stern-looking models wearing the colors of Africa sashayed d ...

New and Noteworthy
Originally Posted: 03/16/2011 - 11:04am | Type: Magazine Article

The Editors Instruments of Peace Instruments of Peace Catherine Whitmire gathers a cloud of Quaker witne ...

Consumption's Effects
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Scott Oberle Our church has formed a discussion group around your periodical, and our discussion on "Cry Freedom" (by David Bats ...

Attack of the Monster Houses
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Julie Polter Why do Americans want to live so large? They sit on treeless hillsides, big as the barns they may ...

We Buy, Therefore We Are
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum Everday low prices are part of our American birthright. Right? Whenever I have occasion t ...

Thwack! for Jesus
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Jonathan Mendez There's no better way to prevent boredom than pl ...

Knit Local, Act Global
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Molly Marsh Stitching for Social (and personal) change. Knitting is hip. Subversive, even. Take knitting ...

The Art of Savoring
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Soon the first stars will move tentatively into the field of sky. I’ve had the joy of vi ...

Our Fast Food Empire
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum 'You deserve a break today' can be a pretty appealing proposition. In his landma ...

Shopping for Justice
Originally Posted: 05/11/2011 - 4:46pm | Type: Magazine Article

Bethany Spicher Schonberg My journey with Super Giant. “Lord, to those who hunger, give bread. And to those ...

A 'Relevant' Conspiracy
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Steve Thorngate A few years ago, the “postmodern memoir” or “autobiographic novel” was all the rage among critics anxious to define new li ...

Modeling Values
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:25am | Type: Magazine Article

Angela M. Skinner I was disturbed by the article “Taking Back Our Kids.” The authors seem to think the best way to combat the consumer culture in which we live, and the problems i ...

Living in 'Simple Elegance'
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Lindsay Moseley Having witnessed the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina, it may be hard to imagine anything comforting about a whi ...

'Tis a Gift to Be Simple
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Johnathan Taplin Our lives do not consist in the abundance of our possessions. Many of us ( ...

When Enough is Enough
Originally Posted: 05/11/2011 - 11:20am | Type: Magazine Article

William T. Cavanaugh Why God's abundant life won't fit in a shopping cart, and other mysteries of consumerism. ...

Free Citizens or Spoiled Children?
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:54pm | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum Who owns our culture? Who decides what our songs and stories will be? As the archives of t ...

Catalog Jesus
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 11:42pm | Type: Magazine Article

Julie Polter I confess: I was a catalog girl who grew up to be a catalog woman. I confess: I was a catalog gir ...

Clowns and Poets and Artists -- Oh, My!
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Julie Polter Saying no to the Disneyfication of America. Rev. Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping does not pr ...