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Marie Kondo Abandons Tidying Up (and What We Can Learn From It)

At this point, you’ve probably heard of Marie Kondo. Her first book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up became extremely popular in 2014, spawning more books, TV shows, a patented tidying up system, a branded organizational line at the Container Store, and a self-branded online store so that folks could

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Consumerism, Decluttering, God's guidance, KonMari, Life, Marie Kondo, Minimizing, Simplicity

Consumerism and Babies

Last month, our lives changed with one phone call. After a long and involved process, my husband Will and I found out from our assigned social worker at the adoption agency that we were picked by the birth mother to adopt a baby boy! He had just been born two

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Community, Consumerism, Contentment, Counter-Culture, God's guidance, Money, Simplicity, Stewardship

Learning about Simplicity from Monks

Last month I participated in a silent retreat at Holy Cross Monastery. Yes, you read that correctly. I voluntarily signed up and went on a retreat at which no one talked for days on end. And yes, there were other people at this retreat. Twenty-five of us or so went

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Community, Consumerism, Counter-Culture, Freedom, God's guidance, God's Love, Habit Breaking, Life, Prayer, Simplicity, Success, Vocation

The Weight We Carry

Note: This is a guest post by Meghan Davis-Brass, pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Newton, Iowa, where she also teaches yoga and lives with her husband and dog. Meghan has entirely too much stuff and considers this one of her primary spiritual struggles. Then Jesus called the twelve together

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Consumerism, Decluttering, Emptying, Experimenting, Minimizing, Priorities, Simplicity, Travel

You Can’t Take it With You

Consumer culture is incredibly prevalent in the U.S., so much so that we often assume automatically that more is better. We are encouraged to spend our time, energy, and financial resources on accumulating more and more material possessions, while also continuously being dissatisfied so that we keep buying and consuming

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Consumerism, Contentment, God's guidance, Habit Breaking, No Shopping, Stewardship, Time

The Deal Isn’t Worth It

In August, my husband Will and I went on a cruise with my parents. These family trips used to be a tradition (happening about every other year), but because of personal schedules and the pandemic, we hadn’t been on a trip together in five years. On our last trip five

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Boundaries, Consumerism, Contentment, God's guidance, Money, No Shopping, Stewardship, Time

Psychological Pricing

It’s no secret that businesses and consumer culture use all sorts of tactics to get us to buy more stuff. We see a lot of these tactics in advertisements and how consumer culture functions– appealing to our base needs, manufacturing a sense of urgency, and perpetuating a sense of dissatisfaction

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Consumerism, Counter-Culture, God's guidance, Habit Breaking, Money

How Changing Your Consciousness Can Help You Live More Simply

It’s easy to get into the habit of thinking about life and the events happening around you in very specific ways. We cling to tried-and-true thought processes because it’s easier than expending more thought energy to think in a different way. But living more simply as a Christian minimalist means

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Consumerism, Counter-Culture, God's guidance, Life, Prayer, Simplicity

Greed

A few years ago, attorney Albert Hessberg III (brother-in-law to famous singer/songwriter James Taylor) was disbarred and sentenced to five years and eight months in prison for stealing over two million dollars from his clients. What’s so fascinating about Hessberg is that no one really understands why he felt the

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Consumerism, Contentment, Counter-Culture, God's guidance, Meaning, Money, Priorities, Simplicity, Success

Contentment

A few years ago, I took intentional steps to break my addiction to online shopping. When I was going through that process, I peeled back the layers of why I became addicted in the first place. I discovered that– at core of it– my issue was discontent. Contentment and Consumer

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Consumerism, Contentment, Counter-Culture, God's guidance, Habit Breaking, Simplicity, Stewardship
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