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Praying to Money (Money as Prayer series, part 4)
Sawyer here. As we watch the dramatic changes in the stock market as of late, I want to turn to the story from Exodus 32, where the Israelites, recently freed from slavery in Egypt, give up on God and their leader Moses, and pray to money [gold] itself. It's quite an...
Prayer in the Key of Wisdom (Money as Prayer, part 3)
By Steven Bonsey In grade school our chaplain entered the pulpit with a toy phone and placed a call to God. “Hello, God?” — and then he proceeded to talk. And talk. He ended the monologue by saying, “It’s been great to talk to you, God!” And he hung up. The lesson was...
Purchases as Prompts for Prayer (Money as Prayer, part 2)
I’ll start us off with a question: what do prayer and spending money have in common? For me, I see both as expressions of desire. Prayer, in its most common understanding, is an entreaty—an asking for something: help, to be heard, guidance, or a change in feeling or...
Money as Prayer (part 1)
I’m writing this on Inauguration Day 2025, which happened to fall on the same day we honor and celebrate the great Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. For me, this day is sacred as I think about the historical and current struggles for justice and freedom in the...
Lifting the veil on ancestors and money beliefs
Introduction Some of our Wisdom & Money blogs are personal reflections meant to share how the writer has had a transformative experience with money and Spirit. I write this in the Fall Triduum (Halloween, All Saints, All Souls’) season as we pass through this...
Steadfast love and mercy are prophetic
A reflection on what it means to be prophetic by Wisdom & Money Co-Director Rose Feerick. A few weeks ago, I was listening to a 2011 interview with Walter Brueggemann on Krista Tippet’s podcast “On Being” while driving to pick up my sister at LaGuardia Airport. At...
Reflections on Zacchaeus: My Japanese-American Perspective
May is the month when many of us from Asian American backgrounds celebrate our heritage and the contribution of our lives, our cuisine, and our voices to the choir of American culture. Here I am not speaking as an AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) or BIPOC...
Love is as Strong as Death: Working Across the Veil on a Charitable Trust
Hello friends, Rose here. As part of our program development this year, we are working on creating a new type of Wisdom & Money circle that will support members to make end-of-life plans, including estate plans, to ensure that the money that flows after our deaths...
Spirituality & Systems: Healing from the Inside Out
When I think about the transformation of the world, be it climate change, economics, housing, education systems, or our justice system, I experience a familiar feeling—the fear of scarcity. This fear may be familiar to you as well. I am humbled to confess that as...
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, we dug into the archives and found a gem that captures the heart of our Living in Gift philosophy. After sharing it...