   
Do not be conformed to this world. But be transformed
by the renewing of your
minds, so that you may discern what is the
will
of God — what is good and acceptable and perfect.
— Romans 12:2
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Books
Common Fire: Lives of Commitment in a Complex World
Laurent Parks Daloz, Cheryl H. Keen, James P. Keen, & Sharon Daloz Parks (Beacon Press, 1996).
The video Common Fire: Leading Lives of Commitment in a Complex World, produced and directed by Terry Strauss, is available for $45 plus shipping from The Whidbey Institute CyberCafe and Bookstore: cybercafe@whidbey.com or 360/341-5922.
Stuff: the Secret Lives of Everyday Things
John Ryan and Alan Thein Durning, & Don Baker (Northwest Environment Watch, 1997).
Take a stuff quiz based on this book.
The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
Juliet Schor (Basic Books, 1991).
God the Economist: The Doctrine of God and the Political Economy
M. Douglas Meeks (Augsburg Fortress, 1989).
Freedom of Simplicity
Richard J. Foster (Harper San Francisco, 1981).
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Films
Affluenza and Escape from Affluenza
Two PBS-produced videos with online teacher's guide and viewer's guide.
Places in the Heart
This award-winning film by Robert Benton is set in a small Texas town during the Great Depression. A widow with two young children struggles to save her family and farm by expanding her household to include a blind war veteran and a black man who knows how to raise cotton. (1984) |
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