|Monday Potpourri

These various items have caught my attention recently:

• The War Abroad and the War at Home (ESA)
• Arrested Development? (ESA)
• The End of Poverty? (documentary)
• Green (48 minute documentary, watch online)
• No Impact Man (C Beavan)
• Heroes of the Environment 2009 (Time article)
• Through the Consuming Fire: Economic Faithfulness in An Age of Consumerism (Conference, Nov 13-14)
• The Myth of a Christian Religion (G Boyd)
• The Year of Living Like Jesus (E Dobson)
• God's Economy (J Wilson-Hartgrove)
• Follow Me to Freedom (S Claiborne & J Perkins)
• "Awesome" photo a hit for Westminster birder (H Pankratz, The Denver Post)
• 20 moves to simplify your finances (M Hunt, Shine/Yahoo!, 21 Sept 2009)
  
• Liberals Aren’t Un-American. Conservatives Aren’t Ignorant. (Tom Jacobs, Utne Reader, Sept-Oct 2009)

BONUS: Okay, two more from Through the Consuming Fire...

• Enough: Contentment In An Age of Excess by Will Samson -- Engaging, readable challenge to consumerism in the church by one of our main speakers.
  (Read a review from The Englewood Review of Books...)

• Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire by William Cavanaugh -- Challenges churches to discern distinctively Christian economic practices.
  (Read a review from The Englewood Review of Books...)