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Earlier this month we were so grateful to be able to gather with some new and old friends to hear from a wonderful panel on what it looks...

By CAROLYN EDSELL-VETTER , Cooperative Business Support Officer; Cooperative Fund of New England Boston, MA. Money is pretty amazing. By...

Guest Post by Aliana Pineiro of the Boston Impact Initiative “People ask ‘What is to blame for growing inequity?’ I challenge the premise...

Socially Responsible Investing Blog Ideas/Resources by Mara Chamlee Resources to help you take the first steps toward Socially...

The questions I sought to answer when I began to write this blog seemed fairly straightforward to me. What is our responsibility when we ...

Knowing Hope, by Cindy Morrison Seventeen years ago I embarked on a journey of faith which forever changed my life. I had received a...

I have been reflecting recently on some of Jesus’ last words in the Parable of the Rich Fool–  Rich toward God . He uses these words to...

The lawyer then asks his follow up question – who is my neighbor? Seriously, I get this. Because loving someone as yourself is not a simple, easy thing and so I also want to know who gets this kind of love from me. I am thankful he asked for all of us. Who gets this kind of love, Jesus? Who do I love this deeply, this unconditionally, this fully? I want to know.

A Guest Post This is the story of one woman responding to a need she saw. Thinking she didn't have a lot to give, she did what she could...

One month post-shopping fast and I have been reflecting on what I learned, how I’ve changed and what I want to do differently in the...

I am in the last month of my shopping fast!  I can hardly believe it.  For the most part it seems to have gone by fast, but there have...

I am in the 11 th month of my shopping fast.  It has been such a positive experience for me. That’s not to say there haven’t been things...

Month #10 of my shopping fast! Fall is my favorite season.  The smells, the colors of the trees. The way it’s cool in the morning and...

I am now in the ninth month of my buy-nothing adventure.  Some things feel easier, some harder.  For the most part I have gotten used to...

I am in month 8 of this no new stuff, no shopping, fasting of things thing.  In some ways it has been far easier than I thought it would...

The other day this moving worship song came on in the car.  The words spoke powerfully to me: Who am I that the highest King Would...

I have passed the halfway point in my yearlong shopping fast. My family has completed theirs (they signed on to join me for the 1 st six...

On Waste and wasting: Today is trash day on my street.  I look at the heaps of waste we all push to the edge of our yards for the trucks...

Here is what’s been going on with me, my family and our shopping fast aka a year without shopping : I am still noticing the faded, worn...

An update on my year without shopping  . . . The power cord conundrum So just some context for this story:  My family has agreed to do...