The OneEarth Jubilee website is continually adding blogs that combine excellent biblical scholarship and insight that illumines a way forward in today’s paralyzing crises.
What topics do we cover? Since mid-July, here’s a list with a brief description….
By now we’ve come to recognize the horrible mistake of creating a way of living that simply doesn’t fit on our one planet. But correcting that mistake is baffling the best minds. Or maybe it’s that there’s so much profit in this way of living that the mind can’t prevail.
JEM is announcing a series of one-hour, monthly “Jubilee Forums,” on the first Saturday of the month, STARTING SEPTEMBER 3, 2022, 9 am Pacific Daylight Time. The first Forum will be on “Jubilee and Climate Breakdown.” Seeing that Jesus framed his entire ministry on Jubilee, we will too. There is no charge.
How to align our money with our values for a more just world has been an aim of Jubilee Economics since our inception (2020). It is also part of the current Jubilee Covenant. Recently, the San Diego Jubilee Circle met for an hour and a half with financial advisor Andy Loving to help us put more nuts and bolts into what we can all do with our money to contribute to a more ecologically and socially just economy.
Please Put More Gas in Our Tank
From JEM’s beginning we have understood that the biblical Jubilee has always been a movement of resistance against injustices, and that creating alternatives resists by showing a better way. Jubilee has never been the ruling system, but it has effectively created “contrast societies”—small enclaves of people who have resisted the MultiEarth ways of domination by creating…