A Car, a Watch, and an Arm

I heard a joke this past week about a young man who was driving his BMW around a curve when he realized the car was out of control and about to plummet ...

Worth Fighting For?

The Bishop of Assisi once said to St. Francis, "I think your life is too hard, too rough. You don't possess anything in this world." And ...

All Flesh Is as Grass

Consumerism is fed by a desire to forget our mortality.

You Can't Always Get What You Want ...

In his book Maverick, Ricardo Semler tells of a lesson he learned working at Semco: "We were in yet another meeting ... when we came to the purchase ...

Our Best Asset

Capitalism gets to stride around our society as objective truth. Everybody from Girl Scouts to collectors for the IRS agrees that money works.

Why doesn't ...

Nothing Needed

Socrates was wont to say—"They are most happy and nearest the Gods that needed nothing." And coming once up into the Exchange at Athens, ...

Problem or Expense?

Any problem that can be solved with money isn't a problem. It's an expense.

Don't Clutter

Don't own so much clutter

That you will be relieved

To see your house catch fire.

Open Hands

The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate (the) spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies ...

A Fuller Life

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might ...