Why should economics be a matter of faith and practice for Christians? How can we privilege community over capital in our daily lives? What would it look like to build Sabbath economics into our personal giving, earning, banking, and investing? Dig into these questions and more when you join Faith and Money Network leaders in 2025 for an eight-month commitment to exploring the seven principles [Read More …]
Retreat: Putting Money In Its Place
Join Faith and Money Director Mike Little and board members Susan Taylor and Andy Loving of Just Money Advisors at a three-day retreat at Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center, May 31-June 2, 2024. From the Kirkridge website: "The retreat facilitators will bring their Judeo-Christian faith roots and years of money-related experiences to our weekend discussion. What traditions, perspectives, and [Read More …]
2024 Trip of Perspective: Central Appalachia
Join Mike Little and others from the Faith and Money Network on a Trip of Perspective to Central Appalachia this fall (Nov. 7-10) to Wise County, Va. to learn about the devastating effects of mountaintop removal and how local leaders are organizing for environmental and economic justice. We'll spend two days listening and building relationships with friends from Southern Appalachian Mountain [Read More …]
Webinar: Scandalous Money with Miguel Escobar
Join us on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, for a free webinar with Miguel Escobar, the author of The Unjust Steward: Wealth, Poverty and the Church Today. In this webinar, author Miguel Escobar will introduce participants to the themes of his book: Join us for this free 90-minute webinar to learn more about how the New Testament and early church thinkers wrote about wealth and poverty. [Read More …]
Exploring money stories in the Gospels and early church with Miguel Escobar
Miguel Escobar is director of strategy and operations at Episcopal Divinity School in New York City. He is also a writer whose work explores Christianity's complicated and conflicted relationship with money, wealth, and poverty. His book is The Unjust Steward: Wealth, Poverty and the Church Today. We have the honor of partnering with Miguel on a few exclusive Faith and Money Network events in [Read More …]
Bearing Witness: Joshin Byrnes on embracing mutual discovery and care as a practicing Zen Peacemaker
Sensei Joshin Byrnes is the founder and guiding teacher of the Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community near Middlebury, Vermont. His background in Catholic social justice and his Zen Peacemaker practice of social action has led him to participate in Faith and Money Network programming, most recently attending the Fall 2023 Trip of Perspective to Central Appalachia. In this interview, he explained how [Read More …]
Leading together: Lydia Kelsey Bucklin on empowering followers of Jesus through mutual ministry
Lydia Kelsey Bucklin isn’t afraid to bring an expansive sense of creativity and mission to her work in the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan. As Canon to the Ordinary for Discipleship & Vitality, she lives and works in a beautiful, remote region of the United States where the traditional model of one priest per congregation isn’t self-sustaining, and hasn’t been for decades. In this [Read More …]
Investing in a credit union that changes the paradigm
It’s been just over a month since my return from the Deep South Investors Tour sponsored by Faith and Money Network and Hope Credit Union. Since I got back, I’ve shared so much about the trip with so many people — it was simply that powerful, and there was so much to say about all the towns and neighborhoods we visited, as well as memorials, museums, and historic sites. Right now, I want to [Read More …]
Economic mobility: A gift for all in the Deep South
In the first full week of June 2023, Faith and Money Network hosted a trip with Hope Credit Union. The purpose of this trip was to show Hope investors firsthand the impact that their deposits are making in the Deep South, particularly for low-income and rural Black families. This is a reflection from participant Sara Loving, who runs a project centered around ethical banking practices called [Read More …]
Learning from repairers of the breach
A week ago, as I write this, we visited the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. It’s also known as the "Lynching Memorial," which gives a clearer idea of the emotional impact of time spent there. The main part of the memorial is a covered square area surrounding an open courtyard. Walking through the space, you are surrounded by hundreds of six-foot-long steel [Read More …]
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