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The parable of the bar of soap
What can be said about a bar of soap and our faith and relation to the world around us?
Claudio Oliver has spent 20 years working with the urban poor, and on community development, dental and medical projects, team equipping, and teaching in Curitiba, Brazil.
He shares just a few of the reflections one small bar of [...]
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Co-op dinner time
It’s been a while since we’ve had one of our infamous dinner clubs at our house. I always had lots of fun having folks over for a themed meal — with everyone participating in the cooking and eating of the meal.
Granted, we do have our weekly small group which sometimes takes on the dinner [...]
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re: Simply living simply
Suzanne at Adventures in Daily Living shared some thoughts and ideas on how to live simply. She shares the following list from A Vision Splendid:
1. Living within our means in a small house with no debt
2. No commercial TV
3. Cooking from scratch
4. Finding old ’sturdy’ items second hand rather than a constant supply of cheap [...]
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simply living simply pt.2
Well I promised I’d try and share some of the things Laurie and I are currently doing to live simply.
I’m not sharing this list because I want to brag about what we do, or because we’ve got it all figured out and we do it right all the time. I’m just sharing this list because [...]
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simply living simply
Kevin has shared some thoughts on living simply.
I think everyone wanting to live simply has different reasons for doing so, Kevin says, “Part of my motivation is money: Spending less on stuff makes our adoption more affordable. It also makes it easier to help others and be more generous.”
Kevin points to two recent posts by [...]
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Mother Earth
I read an interesting view on “mother nature” yesterday and why Christians often have a hard time with living green or caring for nature (aka natural conservation – which sounds like the very essence of a conservative).
First off, because most Christians believe the earth is going to be destroyed in the end – so why [...]
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Earth Day pointers
A co-worker shared this idea with me…
We save water (and keep our plants outside in good shape in summer) by saving our pre-shower water, you know, that water that just goes down the drain as we wait for the shower to heat up?
It fills a bucket per day for us, a bucket of [...]
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