Table of Contents; Issue 6
ECONOMY OF GOD: YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE
VOLUME 2, NUMBER 3 // SUMMER 2010
Features
7 THE DIVINE COMMONWEALTH
CONSP!RE editors
“Amid the wreckage of global economics, God’s people are stirring to a new call of the Spirit.”
8 Flush Toilet s and Forgotten Friend ship
Claudo Oliver
“What if we approached the economically poor not as people to aid, but as people who can help us remember how to be friends?”
13 Living in God ’s Future
Ruth Valerio
“I make the economic choices I do because I want to play my part in the future of God.”
14 Birds, Lilies, and Us
Joyce Hollyday
“Ultimately, the only social security I trust is that which comes from the covenants made between friends and family committed to caring for one another.”
18 The Law yer and the Dealer
Laurence Cooper
“When people enter an intentional Christian community, most of them have something to give up.”
20 Money, Comm unity, and God ’s
Abundance Mark Scandrette
“Money, like sexuality, is easier to discuss in theory than in practice.”
23 The Needle ’s Eye
Marcus and Kath
“Our family experimented with living on $100 a month—with some surprising insights.”
24 God ’s Quiet Conspiracy in a Po st-Oil Future
Tom Sine
“Followers of Jesus aren’t called to a simpler version of the American dream. We are called to reimagine it and reinvent it.”
28 Our Crazy Faith Leonel Perez and Cruz Salucio
“One day, when we are older, we believe we will look back with pride at an industry that we have helped transform.”
31 Welfa re Week Litany
32 Mama Is Feeling Lucky
Melanie Hobson
“As a spiritual experiment, I lived on one dollar a day for forty days.”
35 Mone y Forsakes Us
Christie Melby-Gibbons
“In our community, we keep a tattered dollar bill in plain sight as a reminder that abundant life has nothing to do with moola.”
36 Spoil s of the poor
Ched Myers
“Scripture relentlessly reminds us of God’s indignation for a world constructed around wealth for the few and poverty for the many.”
39 The Twenty-first Century Common Purse
Andy Loving
“How much money could be empowering the poor around the world if we simply rethought where we choose to save and bank?”
42 We All Live Down stream
Andrea Ferich
“Sustainable economies work from a bottom line which values economic, ecological, and social health.”
45 Economy of Love
Shane Claiborne
“In the early church, rebirth affected one’s personal economics.”
Poetry
11 Rapture
Mike Stavlund
Departments
46 Reviews
A listing of key resources around economic alternatives, including great books, films, and organizations.
48 Breathing Together:
Debbie Gish
“It all started when five of us decided to pool our money for a single year. That was twenty five years ago.”
50 Notes from Scattered Pilgrims
Our Co-Conspiring Communities share what they’ve been up to.
53 Contributors
