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Frugal Living

Suddenly and unsurprisingly frugality and thrift seem to be eminently sensible. It should be a point of note that people tended to view this kind of simplicity as somewhat bizarre while we were in the...

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What’s your first thought?

I’ve mentioned it a couple of times but we’ve had a shocking run of things breaking down (boiler, cooker, dishwasher, car exhaust and so on). What’s struck me is that on almost all of these occasions...

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Save Water

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Talking food

If, like me, you happen to have a few key issues that stand out above others (justice, generosity, simpler living etc…) the danger is that you become a bit of an ethical bore continually banging the...

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How to get rid of your stuff *updated*

We suffer from having too much stuff. Sometimes I think we have too little space but mostly I think we have too much stuff. The question then is ‘how do you get rid of it?’Here are my top places for...

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Live Small, Think Big.

The Evangelical Alliance have started a campaign called Simplify as part of Life Beyond Debt, the Evangelical Alliance’s response to the current economic crisis. Naturally enough they came to Breathe...

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Simplify

The Evangelical Alliance are running a campaign in October called Simplify – reduce your expenditure for one month to benefit level and give away the proceeds. To find out what that might feel like...

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Book Review: The Busy Christian’s Guide to Busyness

I’m rapidly becoming a fan of Tim Chester’s books (I think I own 4 at last count) and I think you should be too. I’m convinced that most of us western Christians have a very poor handle on our time,...

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Consumerism: It’s not about the environment

*This is the second (the first is more of an intro here) post into ‘why I think consumerism should be a big deal for Christians* It’s quite a headline really, when you stop to think about it. Pretty...

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Living with a mustard seed faith

So Monday night found me at LICC for an evening with Tom & Christine Sine. It was a great evening hosted by Community Mission with around 100 or so people in attendance. Worship was led by the...

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The rise of collaborative consumption

A video to keep you going through the weekend. I like the creative ways people are using technology.

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10 myths about simple living

Jeremy at Make Wealth History has a great post about ten myths about simple living which you should read. His ten myths are: Simple living is about retreat, and withdrawing from the world Simple living...

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Six reasons why we don’t own a car

For the first time in more than a decade we do not own a car. During the autumn last year, the car we shared with some friends went to meet its breaker – the cost of repair too high for a car worth so...

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The Curiosity Index (10.04.2015)

There’s definitely a building theme to today’s links…so there’s that. First Jeremy Williams identifies three different shades to being green An argument against bigger cities: Why increasing...

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Living with startling abundance

This blog started with a fairly simple premise and topic that I’ve long since wandered from. I saw (and still see) consumerism as a massive problem in our societies and churches because of the way it...

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The Curiosity Index: Week 5

So I went snowboarding, twice. And twice just as I thought I was nailing it, I crashed, hard. Got a sore back today which is the peril of an old dog trying to learn a new trick. Hope you’re enjoying...

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Some thoughts on migration

Living in Stockholm for the past 12 years has consistently exposed me to questions of migration, immigration, asylum and refugees. Let me give you a few examples. A Syrian family living in Lebanon...

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Everyday Church

I found this post in my draft folder and decided I would go ahead and just publish it. I’m aware of the issues that surrounded Timmis in particular, and the resulting fallout of the leadership culture...

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6 Key characteristics of the church in Acts

I’m fairly confident that most churches would in some way want to call themselves a ‘New Testament church’, because there really shouldn’t be any other sort. But what do we even mean by that? For many...

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The Curiosity Index: Week 6

Hello! We are now more than 10% of the way through 2024. Weird. At church we just completed a series on Esther which I thoroughly enjoyed. We’re re-watching our way through seasons of House and...

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