Safe Return Doubtful
We live in a market culture that organizes itself around scarcity and barter. What’s in it...
Category Archives: Context of Scarcity
Scarcity In Our Current Economy
Economist Olivia Saunders explains how the current economy does not work for all and destroys the middle class.
Source: Thought Grenades
How Economy Serves Us
Economist Olivia Saunders discusses our need to create a new, abundance-based economy that serves us, and why scarcity economics eventually leads to violence.
Source: Thought Grenades
Certitude Versus Faithfulness
Our task is to interrupt the consumer market ideology, which a modern story of Pharaoh’s Egypt....
Uncredentialed Leader
Walter Brueggeman discusses the move from indebtedness to freedom, drawing upon the story of Elijah and...
Wilderness
Walter Brueggeman likens the Israelites’ difficult journey into the wilderness to modern believers’ journey toward a...
Into Slavery
Scarcity and food monopoly is at the center of slavery. Ancient and today. Walter opens our...
Food Monopoly
Joseph and Pharaoh were the original source of agribusiness. Reconstructing the production and distribution and purchase...
Empire vs. Community
Peter Block and Walter Brueggemann discuss Empire and the toxic belief it perpetuates — that who...
Narrative of Scarcity
The Biblical source of the consumer mandate that what we have isn’t enough.
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2.1 The Business Perspective
Creating a dense social fabric, which we are calling community building, is more critical to the...
2.2 Consumer Economy
The dual reality of empire and the business perspective have fueled the consumer economy. Consumption and...
2.3 Privatization
Opposition to the common good works under a number of disguises of empire: globalization, efficiency, competitive...
