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...
View ArticleWhat’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...
View ArticleTalking 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleLive 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...
View ArticleSimplify
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...
View ArticleBook 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,...
View ArticleConsumerism: 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...
View ArticleLiving 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...
View ArticleThe rise of collaborative consumption
A video to keep you going through the weekend. I like the creative ways people are using technology.
View Article10 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...
View ArticleSix 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleLiving 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleSome 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...
View ArticleEveryday 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...
View Article6 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...
View ArticleThe 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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