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Conspire Issue 6: Economy of God

by Various Contributors

Alternative Economics, Community, Conspire

This CONSPIRE! is packed with creative and courageous responses to how to reshape your economic life to reflect the bounty of God. Here are creative experiments, hope-filled practice, and exciting possibilities as people share how they are trying to heed Jesus’s stark challenge to serve God, not Mammon.  Some are taming the tools of capitalism. Others share how they make life with a common purse work. There are reflections on living abundantly with economic limits. From well-known voices like Tom Sine, Ched Myers, Joyce Hollyday, and Shane Claiborne to the sharings of unnamed laborers in Indian slums, each contributor offers thoughtful commentary on living well with money, one of the strongest challenges of our materialistic age. For an economic toolkit to help individuals and groups bring together their money and values, see http://www.conspiremagazine.com.

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Enough: Contentment in an Age of Excess

by Will Samson

Alternative Economics, Books

Tailor-made for an age of anxiety, this volume, written particularly for Christians, attempts to address and answer the author’s question: “What would it be like to be formed by communities consumed by God and God’s vision for the world?” Threading his own conservative evangelical background and his family’s present experiences as part of an intentional community throughout the book, the author also uses Scripture to delineate an alternative vision: countercultural “Eucharistic Communities” that offer their resources to the world.

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The Irresistible Revolution, Unabridged Audio

by Shane Claiborne

Alternative Economics, Poverty, Prayer, Spiritual Practices, Audiobooks

Throwing $10,000 in cash and coins to the homeless along Wall Street in October of 2002, Shane Claiborne also tossed aside conventional Christianity—-and got the entire country talking! Discover how the active non-conformist faith of this thought-provoking “radical” compels him to seriously follow the Savior, whatever the cost. Unabridged. 1 MP3 CD. Read by the author.

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The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

by Shane Claiborne

Alternative Economics, Do It Yourself, Poverty, Books

Product Description
During college, a professor remarked, “Being a Christian is about choosing Jesus and deciding to do something incredibly daring with your life.” Taking up that challenge, Shane’s faith led him to dress the wounds of lepers with Mother Teresa, visit families in Iraq amidst bombings, and dump $10,000 on Wall Street to redistribute wealth. In The Irresistible Revolution, you’ll be challenged by a radical Christianity passionate for peace, social justice, and alleviating the suffering found in the local neighborhood and distant reaches of the world. Live out your faith with little acts of radical love as you join the movement of God’s Spirit into a broken world.

Here’s a Chapter of Shane’s book The Irresistible Revolution. You can now read Chapter 5 “Another Way of Doing Life” for free.

Publisher’s Description
Using unconventional examples from his own life, Shane Claiborne stirs up questions about the church and the world, and challenges readers to truly live out their Christian faith.

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The Ordinary Radicals

by Jamie Moffett

Alternative Economics, Community, Do It Yourself, Politics, Prayer, DVDs

In the margins of the United States, there lives a revolutionary Christianity. One with a quiet disposition that seeks to do “small things with great love,” and in so doing is breaking 21st Century stereotypes surronding this 2000 year old faith. The Ordinary Radicals is set against the modern American political and social backdrop of the next Great Awakening. Sharing a relevant outlook for people with all faith perspectives, director Jamie Moffett examines this growing movement.