Wisdom & Money
What would you do with your wealth if you made financial decisions from the mystical heart?
Who We Are
W&M is a web of people of wealth who seek to align the flow of their financial resources with the Holy Spirit in service of Divine Love and Justice. Our work is rooted in ancient Christian traditions, contemplative and prophetic, and modern social movements for justice.
What We Do
We offer multi-day retreats and one-day workshops during which we share our money stories with courage and compassion and explore the intersections of spiritual wisdom and social justice. We also share what we are learning through writing, speaking, blogging and newsletters.
How We Do It
We draw our practices from Wisdom Christianity and modern social movements for justice. These practices support inner transformation and allow us to follow our deepest inner promptings into real-world action.
Personal Stories
“Our retreat group was thinking about funding a micro business in Rwanda. I said that someone had to put in the seed money. Helen and I decided that we would be the seed money. That was the beginning. It was so freeing. It was so easy. It had nothing to do with what I gave; it was the gift that I received. The gift was fully coming from the Christ within me. The part of me that said, “you don’t have enough, be careful” felt safe through the incredible love of Christ.”
John Daly https://wisdomandmoney.org/678-2/ “I had been an investment banker and started thinking about the meaning of my work and the purpose of all the money that was being processed. I wondered, “What impact does all this money have in people’s lives?” I ended up having a mystical experience while praying on the subway which jarred me into realizing that I needed to answer the love that I was receiving from God in even more meaningful ways than I was.”
Brother Bernard Delcourt https://wisdomandmoney.org/wall-street-monastery-interview-brother-bernard-delcourt/ “One of my mantras from Tilden Edwards is “money is an icon and an energy of God that we are called to circulate with joy.” In our society money has become an idol. To call it an icon means it is a portal for the energy and love of God to move into the world. I am not just holding that as an abstract idea. The ability to say I want to give $50,000 to this hospital has created so much joy in me. And it has created so much joy in the people who are receiving it.”
Helen Daly https://wisdomandmoney.org/interview-with-helen-daly/ “The day I left Haiti, I got on a 90-minute flight to Miami. From there I caught a three-hour flight to New York and then drove two hours to my family’s summer home in the Hamptons, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the country. In one day, in other words, I went from one of the poorest areas of the Western Hemisphere to one of the richest. It was disorienting and disturbing to realize where I stood in the global family. What could I do?”
Rose Feerick https://wisdomandmoney.org/haiti/ Upcoming Events
October 4th Monthly Spiritual Practice & Conversation
October 4, 2023
Online via Zoom - RSVP to receive the link
Wisdom & Money hosts monthly online Zoom gatherings for honest conversation. These gatherings are for people of financial wealth and/or people from a culture of wealth who desire to bring awareness to their relationship with money. By cultivating this awareness, we help each other participate in the transformation needed in our personal lives as well as in the world.
FULL: Trailblazing Institute Conference: Creating and Sustaining Inner Transformation, Partnerships and Social Justice
October 12, 2023 — October 15, 2023
Forrest Hills Resort (Dahlonega, Georgia - near Atlanta)
This Conference is FULL! Registration is closed, and we look forward to welcoming our conference attendees! Are you ready for transformation? Many of us yearn for a more just world, one in which people of all genders, faiths, races and cultures live harmoniously and express their uniqueness together. But how do we make strides towards this vision? Join us at the Trailblazing Conference, where you will learn practices that sustain inner trans- formation, partnerships and social justice and practice translating the vision for peace and justice into a reality. Read the full Conference details in the brochure here, and please click here to fill out our online REGISTRATION FORM.
From the Blog
From the Blog
- May 22, 2023
What is Community Supported Ministry?
As Rose shared recently, we are entering into our Spring Fundraising campaign. As we prepared our board and staff to meet this moment that we are in,
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Something is Different – a video message from Rose Feerick, Co-Director
2023 is an important year for me. I am celebrating 20 years as an employee in this work. To contextualize this moment: for most of these 20 years, we
Read More - March 25, 2023
Money as Interdependence (part 3 of 3)
This month is the beginning of my Jubilee year! It has been less than two years since I graduated from law school and I am debt-free. I had so much
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Money as (dys)regulation: part 2 of 3
(This article is the second in a series. To read Part 1, Money as Play, click here.) For the last month, I have experienced a lot of agitation and
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