Chris and Chrissie Drape are longtime south Seattle residents. They’ve been married for 35 years and have two grown sons who both live in California. After a career as a nonprofit accountant, Chrissie now works part-time with small clients and volunteers as a tax preparer with United Way at her local community center. Chris, a career educator, has also downshifted to part-time work, training   [Read More …]

Laura Kind McKenna lives in Philadelphia, where she’s "trying to get bored and eat bonbons" in her retirement, she jokes. She lives with Marc, her husband of 47 years, and has four grown children and 11 grandkids scattered across the country. She’s participating in the Sabbath Economics household covenant small group that began in January 2025, after learning about Faith and Money Network   [Read More …]

Dave and Judy Osgood first discovered the then Ministry of Money in the late 1990s. Dave retired early from a biology professorship at Butler University to take up a second career running a company making electronic monitoring devices for use in animal research. Selling that company in 2005 provided the capital for Dave and Judy to become modest philanthropists, and they sought out the guidance of   [Read More …]

Lowdy Brabyn, a UK-based friend of Faith and Money Network, gave this spoken reflection at a contemplative gathering on New Year's Day and generously agreed to allow us to share it here. Recently, I’ve been thinking about matter. Matter as in stuff.  Matter as in ‘what really matters?’  Matter as the fundamental expression of the divine: our material existence as the   [Read More …]

"Every day, [Hope Credit Union] proves that banking practices can narrow the wealth gap and advance economic justice. An idea that many write off as naïve and folly, Hope makes real through passionate commitment and meticulous follow-through." Once in a while I think I’m beginning to really understand racism, the suffering it has caused and still causes and the tenacity it invokes. And then   [Read More …]