J. Mark Bowers is the author of Faith & Finances, a financial education tool aimed at restoring fellowship across socioeconomic lines. After hours, he spends his days community-generating, social-enterprising, and church-mobilizing in his under-resourced Chattanooga neighborhood.
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Buying Used: A Life-Shaping Liturgy
09-28-2016
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The next time you buy used, repurpose, or forgo, remember: Frugality isn’t just to build up your bank account for a later day (though that can be great, too). In your daily economic liturgies, your heart is being formed. You are becoming what you love. And global systems are being questioned — perhaps, even, over time, re-created.