Workshops

These workshop topics are designed for either 3- or 6-hour formats. Contact us for details.

Sustainability & Lifestyles - Living in Harmony with the Web of Life

• Greening Congregations with the Triple Bottom Line
• Localization: Living Communities Amid Globalization
• Reinventing Sabbath: Restoration and Rest in a 24/7 Culture
• Intentional Community in Today's Housing and Land Market
• Creativity and Imagination: Birthing the Paradigm of Sustainability
• Practicing Enough in a World Shouting "More!"
• Finding Hope for the World We Believe Is Possible

Globalization & Justice - Promoting a World of Abundance for All

• The Rich-Poor Gap: Linking the Plight and Salvation of Rich and Poor
• Five Biblical Alternatives to Empire
• Doing Justice while Pushing a Shopping Cart
• Three Meals a Day — Major Opportunities for Justice and Change

Abundance & Jubilee Economics - Money as a Tool for Change

• Portfolio Prophets: Shifting Investments to a Jubilee Economy
• From the Polarity of Scarcity/Prosperity to Abundance
• Freeing Our Households from the Debt/Credit Economy

The engaging and profound witness of . . . Jubilee Economics Ministries has kindled in our parish a commitment to discover and practice God's abundance in our households and in our corporate life as a church. We have been blessed with JEM's clear and accessible resources. . . . In the face of the dominant culture's persistent dirge of scarcity, we have been given the tools and the teaching to sing a new song of abundance alive and well in the creation.

The Reverend Anne S. Howard, Associate Rector, Trinity Episcopal Church, Santa Barbara, CA