Super Soaper!

January 5, 2013
Cindy Todd - Snohomish Soap Company

– by Andy Wade – There I was, quietly sipping my morning coffee and reading the newspaper. Then it happened. A gulp, a snort, I just about had hot coffee shoot out my nostrils! While that’s not an uncommon response for me while reading the paper, this time it was because of a pleasant surprise! [...]

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Snohomish Soap Company – Fast Pitch

September 12, 2012
Snohomish Soap Company

MSA’s own Cindy Todd explains what’s up with Snohomish Soap Company. Check out this entrepreneurial gem that’s not just helping Cindy’s family, but is also providing help and hope for others! How are you getting along in these turbulent times and what creative responses have you come up with?

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Eating on $2 a Day: Final Observations

July 19, 2012
Chris Holcomb Reflects

by Chris Holcomb — Firstly, this would’ve been much more difficult if I wasn’t in the house that I am in now, most notably because of the garden. I may do a future experiment where I outlaw things like getting food from the garden, as not everyone has that kind of access. But I think [...]

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Eating on Two Dollars a Day: Intro and Day One

July 13, 2012
home made bread

by Chris Holcomb – I started my next experiment on a Thursday and finished on a Sunday. My goal for these four days was to obtain all of my food on only two dollars a day. Once again, it was part of an effort to learn what I really need. Why did I pick two [...]

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My 28 Possession Day

July 12, 2012
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by Chris Holcomb – This past semester at Purdue, I took a class called “Global Green Politics.” It was a general overview of environmental politics at the global scale, focusing on a wide variety of issues and viewpoints. The professor did a great job of teaching it from a neutral perspective with the goal of [...]

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Almost Amish – book review

July 9, 2012
almost amish cover

– by Andy Wade – “The world is based on the false promise of infinite growth. Amish society is based on the sustainable truth of an infinite God. The path from a crazy-busy life to a saner and simpler life begins in knowing the difference” (p. 95) Nancy Sleeth I can relate to those words! [...]

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Ready or Not: Creating a New Reality

June 19, 2012
Texting

– by andy wade – We are creating the technology that is going to create the new shared experience, which will create the new world. So please, let’s make technology that makes people more human and not less. — Renny Gleeson In this humorous yet pointed clip, Renny Gleeson challenges us to be truly present [...]

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Missing Resurrection

April 28, 2012
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– by Andy Wade – How many resurrection moments do we pass by each day, too busy, too distracted, or perhaps more likely, too pre-conditioned not to notice them? God smacked me upside the head with an amazing double rainbow yesterday. The colors were so intense in one of the arcs that I could easily [...]

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Children’s Prayer Book

March 16, 2012
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FREE DOWNLOAD! Prayers of a Different Sort: a children’s prayerbook by Ricci Leigh Kilmer From the introduction: PRAYERS THAT MOVE US How do you pray? Do you sit in a particular place? Do you close your eyes? Have you ever hiked while you prayed? Have you danced? Prayer can be very still and peaceful. But [...]

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Have you ever considered buying an apartment house for community and compassion for times like these?

March 6, 2012
Chiara House

Our friends in Little Flowers Community, that we met in the last post, did exactly that.  They bought an apartment house in a poorer part of Winnipeg Manitoba…with the help of some Mennonite businessmen that caught the vision. The vision for Chiara House was born out of a terrible tragedy in Little Flowers early in [...]

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