Awakening to a new economics
Peter Grimwood shares his thoughts on Kate Rigby’s new book of meditations on creation and crisis. This is an extraordinarily creative book and the only dull thing about it is … Continue reading Review: Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction
“The questions that really began to stand out to me were questions about wealth and poverty, but I also started digging deeply into environmental questions. I started to see that … Continue reading Talk: Steve McMullen on faith and economy
Most of us will have heard of the Seven Deadly Sins. They have turned up in literature and film, and will be familiar to many well beyond the Christian tradition. … Continue reading The Seven Social Sins
Strahan Coleman on consumerism and the simplicity of beholding. Strahan writes Commoners Communion, and is the author of the new book Beholding. I’ve been chronically sick for years, a decade actually, and … Continue reading How I quit consumerism (and rediscovered God)
Catch up with Anna Rowland’s Joy in Enough talk on Catholic social teaching below: Anna Rowlands is St Hilda Professor of Catholic Social Thought and Practice in the Department of … Continue reading Talk: The Politics of Communion
As we enter a season with a lot of attention on food and feasting, food activist Liesl Stewart invites us to consider the effects of corporate farming, the high cost … Continue reading Eating at the service of life
The last few days have seen extraordinary turmoil in the worlds of politics and economics. Falling currency, stressed financiers, politicians either capitalising on the situation or hastily working out a … Continue reading Proverbs for the Treasury
Peter Grimwood reflects on Jesus’ story of the rich man and the bigger barns, and its application to today’s economy. The story of the bigger barns in Luke chapter 12 … Continue reading Bigger barns and riches before God
Joy in Enough 