Money and Faith:
A Journey of the Heart
My Upcoming Book -- Expected Publication Date: Fall of 2008
Money and Faith: A Journey of the Heart
I am currently writing and editing a book which is both an anthology of excellent essays and a community-building study-guide. The book (working title above) will invite readers into a conversation about money—designed to lead toward greater personal freedom/trust, and our society toward a more equitable and sustainable economic system.
Expected publication date is fall, 2008. Read draft introductory story, Enough for All.
Please see the current outline summarized below:
Part One -- Personal Reflection: Confronting/ Examining Our Relationship with Money
I. Depends on the Way That You See
II. Demystifying Money: What Is the Stuff Anyway?
III. Money, Idolatry and the Kingdom of God
Part Two: Tending to Our Relationship with Money and Stuff
IV. Household Economics -- Faith-Based Responses
V. Sabbath and Jubilee
Part Three: The Bigger Picture -- Money in the Public Realm
VI. Our Vantage Point
VII. Judging Happiness by Measuring GDP
VIII. Corporations, Free Trade, and Voices from the Other Side
Part Four: Practical Inspiration: A Continuum of Hope
IX. Household Practices: From Your Bank Account to Creation’s Wealth
X. Exciting Possibilities: Reflections on the Now and Not Yet
Part Five: Study Guide
Meeting One: Enough for All
Meeting Two: The Central Problem of Our Lives
Meeting Three: The Nature of Money
Meeting Four: Redistributive Justice and the Kingdom of God
Meeting Five: Household Economics -- Faith-Based Responses
Meeting Six: Sabbath in a “Time is Money” World
Meeting Seven: Happiness, Externalities, and Economic Growth
Meeting Eight: Wheat Farmers, Creole Pigs, and Corporate Globalization
Meeting Nine: Investments
Meeting Ten: The Now and the Not Yet
"We must confess that the central problem of our lives is that we are torn apart by the conflict between our attraction to the good news of God's abundance and the power of our belief in scarcity."
- Walter Brueggemann