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Making a difference in the world: Departing board members Dave and Judy Osgood reflect

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 …]

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What really matters?

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 …]

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Learning About Hope: How one credit union strives to close the racial wealth gap

"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 …]

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Just another white van on the horizon?

"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 …]

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Living among the ancestors: Learning about reverence and community from the Lakota people

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 …]

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Book Review: Learning about de jure economic racism

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 …]

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Sacred Spaces: Robert Two Bulls on the culture of the Oglala Lakota

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 …]

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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 …]

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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 …]

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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 …]

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