About Jubilee Economics Ministries

The primary purpose of Jubilee Economics Ministries (JEM) is to advance the understanding and practice of jubilee economics. Central to JEM is the change we make in our lives as we align with sustainable economic practices on Earth, our home. Like spokes from a hub, our activities go out from this center. The spokes are the practices and themes of an economics that is sufficient for everyone in our planetary household, an economics we call jubilee, but which goes by other names as well.

The changes that are now needed in society are at a level that stirs religious passions. The debate will be a religious one whether that is made explicit or not. The whole understanding of reality and the orientation to it are at stake…. [The solutions will be created] by those who can draw forth these deepest energies of the centered self and give them shape and direction. Getting there, if it happens at all, will be a religious event.

—Herman Daly & John Cobb

The oldest and deepest origins of a jubilee economy are in the cosmos herself, not from what human civilization has constructed. From the cosmos, indigenous peoples worldwide learned sustainable economics, and so lived within Earth’s interrelationships of abundant life. The mystery and sacredness of those interrelationships made indigenous economics spiritually rooted.

Welcome to the work of economic conversion! JEM seeks personal and collective conversion from the tempting economics of empire to the larger life-giving economic story taught by Earth. This is, as cosmologist Thomas Berry called it, “the great work of our time.”

JEM is a 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1999.