Economy
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
For every hour you spend doing something for someone in your community, you earn one Time Dollar. Then you have a Time Dollar to spend on having someone do something for you. It’s that simple. Yet it also has profound effects. Time Banks change neighborhoods and whole communities. Time Banking is a social change movement [...]
Saturday, April 7th, 2007
Global thinking can only do to the globe what a space satellite does to it: reduce it, make a bauble our of it…If we could think locally, we would take far better care of things than we do now. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question “What [...]
Friday, April 28th, 2006
About 44 million people in this country have no health insurance, and another 38 million have inadequate health insurance. This means that nearly one-third of Americans face each day without the security of knowing that, if and when they need it, medical care is available to them and their families.
Having no health insurance also often [...]
Monday, April 24th, 2006
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a blessing that money cannot buy.
Izaak Walton, English Writer.
Ah! I am feeling almost human—Neanderthal, maybe—and have come to appreciate health more than ever. Nothing [...]
Friday, April 7th, 2006
Circa AD 50-
…Serious trouble developed in Ephesus concerning the Way. It began with … a silversmith who had a large business manufacturing silver shrines of the Greek goddess Artemis. He kept many craftsmen busy. He called the craftsmen together, along with others employed in related trades, and addressed them as follows:
“Gentlemen, you know that our [...]
Thursday, January 5th, 2006
We must see the error of our effort to live by fire, by burning the world in order to live in it. There is no plainer symptom of our insanity than our avowed intention to maintain by fire an unlimited economic growth. Fire destroys what nourishes it and so in fact imposes severe limits on [...]
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
Picking up on an earlier entry about shopping locally in the interest of developing relationship, perhaps this web link will be helpful. Since it’s doubtful we can “save the corporate soul” perhaps we should do our best to preserve the relationships where true souls reside.
Why Delocate?
Tuesday, May 17th, 2005
We’re taking a giant step into the future
And turning into a thousand other towns
I heard today the news that they are
Closing the bookstore down.
Some big concern comes in and yanks
Our jobs, our shops, our hometown banks,
Then they expect our grateful thanks
It happens every day.
I guess I just prefer to see
Success serve our community
Not just [...]
Thursday, May 5th, 2005
Indigenous faith communities ought to emerge from all this interaction with the host subculture. While it is noble and, indeed, a godly activity for a Christian businessman to run a shoe shop and to try to be Christ to his customers, something is missing if a Christian faith community isn’t part of the equation. The [...]
Saturday, April 16th, 2005
There is a rhythm of global dominance. No country remains the first player forever. Maybe this American hour will not last. And who will be the next leading player? Maybe next will be China. But more probably, before China, it will be the united Europe. Europe’s time is almost here. In fact, there are many [...]
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