Campolo & Claiborne BONUS Videos Now Available

This week Simple Living’s most recent free video appears on JEM’s new YouTube channel dedicated to voluntary simple living—Simply Enough: Straight Talk from Tony Campolo & Shane Claiborne on Simple, Just Living—eight BONUS segments (playlist with all 14 episodes viewable above). Ideal for group or individual use, especially for young adults, including Study/Action Guide. The video Simple Living: Struggles and Solutions is scheduled for release next week.

Campolo and Claiborne have created an intensely personal dialogue about the foundations of the Christian life and voluntary simplicity. This pointed, yet hopeful video has current relevance to the yearnings of today’s Christian.

Artists for Change CD — free and complete

Doug Clegg and his partner Kate Wallace were the sparks that brought the Artists for Change CD into being, and JEM has used that CD as one entryway into talking about our favorite topics. The entire CD is now available free to be streamed or downloaded.

Like JEM

Jubilee Economics is on Facebook @jubecomin. So is our podcast program: @The Common Good Podcast.

Please subscribe to The Common Good podcast and subscribe to Jubilee Economics’ blog.

Artists for Change CD, 2nd Edition: Now Available!

AFC^2!

AFC^2! (Songs for my One Earth Crib) is the new compilation of songs by Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, ADELE, 50 Cent, Kanye West, Kelly Clarkson, and Tyga. And, special for this compilation, there is an ensemble performance from all of the American Idol winners, backing Madonna on her newest single, Immaterial Girl. An impassioned posthumously-released Amy Winehouse performance of “This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land (But It’s More My Land Than Yours)” is definitely the show stopper of this set, highlighting the difference between the prevailing worldview of economics of domination and scarcity and the JEM vision of a shared economics of abundance.

Click to read more ...

Tea Party For Dummies

If they had made economics lessons this fun in school, I might have enjoyed it a lot more.

I found this while linking up the musicians featured on the JEM compilation CD Artists for Change. Emma’s Revolution are among the artists on that CD, and whether or not that was the case, this would still be a funny video, cutting down the “logic” of the Tea Party movement.

Metanoia Newsletter, August 2010

Download the August 2010 newsletter here. PDF format.

Features:

• JEM website changeover
• Property for People, Not for Profit book feature
• Artists for Change CD highlights
• Invite JEM to do an Advent Workshop for your group or church
• Men's retreat notice (Chicago)
• Comments from readers

Note: This archived version is slightly different from the bulk mailed paper version in order to fix a couple web address changes that happened just as the newsletter went to press. Sorry for the confusion, but you're here now and that's what counts!

Metanoia Newsletter, November 2008

Download the November 2008 newsletter here. PDF format.

Features:

• Our current economic crisis
• Fear-based human economy versus a faith-based divine economy
• Comments on Reading the Bible Economically
• The perfect holiday gift

Metanoia Newsletter, Spring 2006

Download the May 2006 newsletter here. PDF format.

Features:

• JEM’s “Opening Eyes” delegation to Chiapas
• Changing our newsletter’s name to Metanoia
• JEM births a new fair trade coalition and partners with another
• Community land trusts and affordable housing
• Introducing  the Artists for Change CD