Faith and Money Network

02/09/2026

When we’re feeling overwhelmed or filled with despair about the state of the world and our earth, what do we do? Pour our lives into whatever it means to be as close to the earth as possible, suggests Lydia Wylie-Kellermann. Here are some ideas. https://faithandmoneynetwork.org/network-voices/46-practical-ideas/

02/08/2026

Why it's so easy to fall into manipulative language when preaching on money — and how to find your way back.

Manipulation often creeps into church money conversations without us realizing it. Learn to spot three common traps and shift toward transformative stewardship instead.

02/04/2026

The Next Egg community explores questions like:
Can we imagine a world where personal security doesn't require individual savings? What IS retirement, anyway? https://www.thenextegg.org/

The Next Egg creates resources, builds communities, and shares tools necessary so that millions of us can move retirement savings out of Wall Street and into our local communities. These tools include self-directed IRAs, solo 401ks, and employer retirement plans. Join us!

02/02/2026

Dr. William R. Miller explores the "prison of privilege": Greed, anxiety, entitlement, and envy. These are walls of the prison of privilege. Generosity, simplicity, gratitude, and contentment. These are keys to the prison door.

The oppressed are not the only ones in need of liberation. There is a complementary oppressing confinement for those with the upper hand, who are themselves on a slavish road to destruction.

01/29/2026

Individual retirement accounts like the 401(k) have become the backbone of our retirement system. They are a key contributor to the precarity unraveling the social fabric.

01/04/2026

A good word from CAC and Brian McClaren: "Many people today feel disillusioned by the divisions that Christianity has helped create. Yet even amid this fracturing, faithful people are reimagining what it means to follow Jesus with compassion and courage.

Across every traditional Christian denomination, there are widespread calls for change. Imaginative scholars, liturgists, organizers, networkers, and pastors are creating resources and spaces for beautiful new things to be born…."

CAC faculty member Brian McLaren introduces the 2026 Daily Meditations theme: “Good News for a Fractured World.” Our world is deeply fractured. We see the

11/30/2025

We need to move from autonomy to covenantal existence, from anxiety to divine abundance, and from acquisitive greed to neighborly generosity.”

Walter Brueggemann

11/13/2025

https://dwsutton.substack.com/p/love-your-enemies?triedRedirect=true

The persistence of hospitality among Lakota people

10/13/2025

“Immigrants are thieves and murderers,”
say the descendants of immigrants
who came among the Natives
as thieves and murderers.
Great Spirit, grant us humility.

Some chant replacement theories,
ignoring who we tried to replace.
Grant us silence.

We are innocent, of course:
it was our great grandparents who sinned…
but we still cling to stolen land,
and resist making things right.
Grant us repentance.

Those who we tried to erase
are still here.
Grant us gratitude.

The ghost dance goes on,
beneath our knowing.
Great Spirit, take hold of us.

Eternal table The Temple police are everywhere,the Emperor’s soldiers watching.Crucifixions happen daily, people taken,cruelty substituting for order.Arguments are launchedabout who belongs, who is outsidethe law. Everybody knows who’s targeted.Suspicion, fear and anger float above groundlike sm...

10/10/2025

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09/28/2025

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Wendell Berry, The Peace of Wild Things

09/25/2025

In Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse, Pope Leo spoke frankly about wealth inequality: "Yesterday the news that Elon Musk is going to be the first trillionaire in the world. What does that mean and what’s that about? If that is the only thing that has value anymore, then we’re in big trouble."

In a lengthy and wide-ranging interview for a new biography of his life by Crux Senior Correspondent Elise Ann Allen, Pope Leo XIV opens up his own background and current global topics such as Ukraine, synodality, and polarization.