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December 14, 2017
Transformative Fundraising: Part 2 by Steven Bonsey
Has this ever happened to you? My telephone rings around supper time. When I answer, an unfamiliar voice asks for me by name. It thanks me for my past generosity. I am put on my guard. What do they want from me? The person on the other end of the...
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December 6, 2017
Transformative Fundraising – Part 1 by Steven Bonsey
Some time ago when my wife Elisabeth suggested that we might join a transformative spiritual circle to talk about money with other people of wealth, I didn’t jump at the chance. I’d had experience with all sorts of small groups — group therapy, prayer groups, support groups — and I...
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March 27, 2017
A Night In Heaven
Last month I had the opportunity to travel to Rwanda with Steve Bonsey. Steve was invited by his friend, Reverend Philbert Kalisa, to lead a retreat on Wisdom Christianity for members of Philbert’s ministry, REACH which supports people as they walk through a process of forgiveness and...
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January 19, 2017
Why “Wisdom & Money”?
With the new year, Wisdom & Money has launched. What’s in the name? As a new organization, Wisdom & Money continues the signature work of its predecessor Harvest Time: to engage with money as a doorway to spiritual transformation. For more than a decade participants in Harvest Time...
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October 31, 2016
The Surprisingly Complex Practice of Simplicity
All fall I’ve been working on a piece on simplicity. I’ve been trying to put in words the mysterious attraction I feel to something that I consider a practice. It seemed simple enough when I began this piece. I wanted to understand for myself why it is that I am...
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October 13, 2016
Sacred Play and Embodied Love
What you need to understand about me before I tell you this next story is that I was taught to lead with my mind. A product of private schools, I understood how to navigate the world of big ideas and loved it. Philosophy, theology, literature, and history were my favorite...
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October 4, 2016
Financial Transparency
What I remember from my second Harvest Time retreat is how full my breasts felt, particularly as the weekend went on. I realize that’s an odd thing to say, but I was weaning my son that weekend and as time passed, my abundance became painful. The pain of my overabundance...
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September 19, 2016
Why I Came to Harvest Time
When I went to my first Harvest Time retreat in 2000, the Gospel story about money that I found most challenging was the encounter between Jesus and the rich ruler in Mark 10. One line in particular haunted me: “Go, sell what you have, and give to the poor and...
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September 1, 2016
Haiti
When I was 24, I made the decision to go to Haiti. The decision came about because of a booklet I picked up at a Ministry of Money retreat in 1995. I was new to looking at money through the lens of my faith then and was grateful to discover...
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July 2, 2016
Response to Georgetown’s sale of slaves
This spring The New York Times published several stories about Georgetown University’s history of selling slaves. As a Georgetown alum, I followed those stories and joined family members and Harvest Time friends in processing the impact of learning about this history. In those...
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