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Figuring out a new, faith-driven financial path

Trying to align our money choices with our deepest values was confusing, humbling, and complicated. But we weren’t (and aren’t) alone. A few years ago my husband Zach and I began having conversations about “faith and money.”  We entered the conversations with some trepidation, as if we were entering uncharted territory.  Simplicity and responsibility The conversations   [Read More …]

A manna jar for your home

Over the last ten years, the Exodus story of the manna jar and God’s provision for the Hebrew people escaping slavery in Pharaoh’s Egypt has become a powerful metaphor in the teaching ministry of Faith and Money Network. (Read more about this “living symbol” in this reflection by Paul Taylor and Lee Van Ham.) Through an arrangement with Kentucky artist and potter Mitchell Rickman, you can now   [Read More …]

From anxiety to grace: How my thinking about money has changed

I have never matched most people’s image of someone enslaved to money. I have never thrown ethics to the wind to get or keep a high-paying position; I have never been interested in a high-paying position at all. I have never run up huge credit card bills which I could not pay off. Yet my heart has been in bondage to the idol of money. I grew up an only child in a home with an income that was   [Read More …]

Honoring the past, envisioning the future: Faith and Money Network celebrates 40 years

As we celebrate our 40th anniversary at Faith and Money Network, we’re taking a look back at our legacy, revisiting the programs and events we’ve introduced over the decades, and outlining the possibilities that lie ahead for our small but mighty organization. Don McClanen founded the organization as the Ministry of Money after holding his first unofficial workshop in 1976. Don found himself   [Read More …]

An Invitation to Anti-Racist Action: Moving Money to Hope Credit Union

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and Faith and Money Network’s own reckoning with a commitment to racial equity, the organization has committed to moving money to Hope Credit Union, a Black-led, government-insured financial institution based in Jackson, Mississippi. Faith and Money Network director Mike Little and board member Andy Loving of Just Money Advisors invite you to   [Read More …]

Jesus and the Roman Coin

I think I was a teenager when I first came across the story of Jesus’ clever back-and-forth with the religious authorities of his time. The story is found in Matthew 22:15-22, and the line familiar to most is in verse 21: “Then he said to them, “Give therefore to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”  At the time, and in recent memory, I   [Read More …]

Racial Equity Statement

Faith and Money Network’s Commitment to Racial Equity "You can’t have capitalism without racism."  - Malcolm X For hundreds of years, laws, policies, and practices have perpetuated white supremacy – delivering excessive privilege to whites while disadvantaging Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities and precipitating the inequities of today. Since our founding, Faith and Money   [Read More …]

What practicing Sabbath Economics looks like for my family

The Kingdom of God is a beautiful place — kind of like my backyard in the Upper Eno Watershed in North Carolina: lush, green, a riot of color where birds are singing happy songs and splashing in the bird bath. In this place, every living creature has enough. No one is poor or in need. There is abundance, not scarcity. This is a pipe dream, you might say, but this is the world God provides for us,   [Read More …]

Introduction to Sabbath Economics

Event Date: October 15, 2021

Join activist-theologian Ched Myers and economist and author Susan Taylor for Introduction to Sabbath Economics, a virtual, two-part and two-day event on October 15 and 16, 2021. This online workshop will cover the basics of Sabbath Economics as a set of practices grounded in the biblical economic values of rest, jubilee, forgiveness, redistribution, and abundance. At the   [Read More …]

Investing, Giving Locally, and Becoming Big Budget Nerds: How One D.C. Couple is Figuring Out Their Finances, Together

Danny Mortensen and Liz Schmitt are a thirty-something couple residing in Washington, D.C., where they attend Capitol Hill United Methodist Church. Schmitt grew up in upstate New York and has lived in D.C. since 2009. She’s a self-proclaimed budget nerd who is working on investing locally. Outside of her day job in environmental policy, she has been getting back into teaching piano and enjoys good   [Read More …]