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 …]

"So what does it look like to create ongoing relationships with the Lakota people in Red Shirt? It might be looking for ways to support these communities, spreading the word, returning in future years, or even financial support for projects." In June, I had the great privilege to participate in a Faith and Money Network Trip of Perspective to Oglala Lakota land at Red Shirt Table, Pine   [Read More …]

I never thought I would go to South Dakota. My way of thinking was, "What reason would I go there outside of removing another state from my bucket list?" All I knew about the state is that it is located in the middle of the country, its capital is Pierre, and the location of Mount Rushmore was home to a very sacred site for Native Americans. It wasn’t until my school chaplain offered me the   [Read More …]

As a theist Unitarian Universalist, I believe in our 1st Principle: the inherent worth and dignity of every person. Because I believe that every person holds a spark of the divine, and that all people are my neighbors, I must work to learn about the experiences of the most marginalized and disadvantaged in our culture, understand how our systems affect them, and work to make things more just and   [Read More …]

Rev. Canon Robert Two Bulls is a member of the Oglala Lakota and the Missioner for The Department of Indian Work for the Episcopal Church in Minnesota. A member of a family with deep roots in artistry, activism, and Episcopal ministry, Two Bulls and his colleagues will be leading participants on our first Trip of Perspective to Red Shirt Table on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota this   [Read More …]

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 …]