- June 10, 2021
Ancestors and Reparations
I have been spending a good deal of time lately with my great-grandfather Walter who died when I was 2. I have been in conversation with him about my money story. Not because Walter left a personal fortune that I have inherited; he didn’t. But Walter, an Episcopal priest like...
Read More - April 21, 2021
Stuck and Desperate No Longer
by Nancy M Thurston Nineteen years ago, I flew across the country to attend a Be Present National Conference on Race and Class. At the time, I was stuck and desperate. Stuck between a bone-deep knowing that the personal and societal transformation I longed for was possible, even across our...
Read More - February 20, 2021
Moving Money is For Everyone: The Next Stage
by Steven Bonsey Something seems to be shifting in our country. The availability of vaccines is beginning to show grounds for hope for relief from the pandemic. On the political level, citizens watched as the Capitol, the scene of violent insurrection, became the site for an orderly transition...
Read More - December 18, 2020
Living In Gift: A Year End Celebration
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Read More - December 5, 2020
Moving Money is For Everyone: Stage Four
Stage Four: Participation by Steven Bonsey The great room of the Bolinas bed and breakfast that Wisdom & Money rented for a weekend board retreat featured a panoramic view of the Pacific Coast from Stinson Beach to the south to Point Reyes up north. At the center of the vista,...
Read More - November 28, 2020
Moving Money Is For Everyone: Stage Three
Stage Three: Collaboration in Unity by Steven Bonsey One morning sometime in the mid-1990’s, at the Parish of St Clement, Honolulu, where I served as Rector, I stood from my prayer desk and looked out at the empty sanctuary. I looked at the pews and prayer books and realized that...
Read More - November 21, 2020
Moving Money is For Everyone: Stage Two
Stage Two: Purpose by Steven Bonsey When Elisabeth and I came into the Boston Circle in the early 2000s, we had a question: How could we bring the management of our financial surplus into alignment with our Christian faith? We weren’t interested in conventional financial management that preserves...
Read More - November 10, 2020
Moving Money Is For Everyone: Stage One
A reflection in four stages by Steven Bonsey Stage One: Personal Gift The Boston Circle —like the other retreat Circles in Wisdom & Money — welcomes people who know themselves to have more than enough money, or who come from a culture of having more than enough money. I identify...
Read More - September 21, 2020
Listening to Mark 10 in Wildfire Season
A Lectio Divina Meditation by Rosemary Feerick What do you pack in a go bag? Do you know what a go bag is? Do you live someplace where you have to know? That is what I was thinking about when Steven read the story of the rich man in Mark 10:...
Read More - July 4, 2020
Moving Money in this Moment
by Steven Bonsey For those of us holding concentrations of wealth, this seems like a good moment in which to let some money move into a hurting world in the flow of Spirit. And in a hurry. What might that look like? The pandemic, with its disproportionate impact on people...
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