|Christmas List (updated)

I talk about simplicity and denounce greed, but I'm really greedy. Instead of making my wish-list, I should just offer these catalogs instead:

• Advent Conspiracy
• International Justice Mission + IJM Advent Conspiracy 
• Church World Service
• World Vision
• ADRA
• Heifer

But somehow my own unending list persists:

BOOKS--War and Peace

• Nevertheless (JH Yoder)
• Reborn on the 4th of July (Mehl-Laituri)
• What about Hitler? (Brimlow)
• Who Would Jesus Kill? (Allman)
• When Blood and Bones Cry Out (Lederach)
• Gandhi and Beyond (Cortright)
• School of Assassins (Nelson-Pallmeyer)
• Jesus and the Nonviolent Revolution (Trocme)
• He Came Preaching Peace (Yoder)
• Peace (Brueggemann)

BOOKS--Christian (General)

• Insurrection (Rollins) 
• The Lost Meaning of the Seventh Day (Tonstad)
• Radical Christian Discipleship (Yoder)
• Resident Aliens (Hauerwas) [Iconocast 17]
• Simply Jesus (Wright) 
• Mere Discipleship (Camp)

BOOKS--Social Ethics

• Burning Center, Porous Borders (Fernandez)
• Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life (Armstrong)
• The Just Church (Martin)
• Welcoming Justice (Perkins & Marsh)
• Faith and Wealth (Gonzalez) 
• Body Politics (Yoder)
• Choose Love Not Power (Campolo)
• Divine Rebels (Guzder)
• Compassion, Justice & the Christian Life (Lupton) 
• Disruptive Religion (Smith)
• Just Courage (Haugen) 
• Social Justice Handbook (Cannon)
• The Moral Vision of the New Testament (Hays)
• With Justice for All (Perkins)
• The Idea of Justice (Sen)
• Culture Matters (Harrison & Huntington)
• The Poverty and Justice Bible
• Faith in Action Bible
• The Green Bible

BOOKS--Economics + Business

• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Acemoğlu & Robinson)
• The Responsible Company (Chouinard)
• Free People (Brown)
• Debt (Graeber) 
• Development as Freedom (Sen)
• Confessions of an Economic Hitman (Perkins)
• A Game as Old as Empire (Perkins)
• No Logo (Klein)
• When Corporations Rule the World (Korten)
• The Post-Corporate World (Korten)
• The Bottom Billion (Collier)
• The End of Growth (Heinberg)
• Beyond Growth (Daly)

BOOKS--Goverment + Politics

• Discipleship as Political Responsibility (Yoder)
• Christian Anarchism (Christoyannopoulos)
• The Way, the Truth and the Sword (Ritsema)
• Come Out, My People (Howard-Brook) 
• Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire (Walsh & Keesmat)
• The Shock Doctrine (Klein)

BOOKS--Miscellaneous

• The Leadership Challenge (Kouzes & Posner)
• Unexpected (Patagonia)
• Closer to the Ground (Tomine)

FILMS

• The Singing Revolution
• Budrus
• The Corporation
• Flow
• Harvest of Empire 
• Plastic Paradise 
• Landfill Harmonic
• 180 South
• Return to Balance

GEAR, BIKES, INSTRUMENTS, TRAVEL... There really is no end. I am no different from every other middle-class punk who always has more to buy than money to spend.

For reflection:

Colossians 3:5
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.

Jeremiah 6:13
From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.