September-October 2023 Jubileo: News & Updates
Quick Headlines: A Peek at Baby Kotan; Pedro Zooms to Peru; Response to Book Burners; Serving Migrants Families with Children; Young Man Quits Drugs
I so enjoy the emails you send describing all the great work you and your circles continue to do. In a world where “Christian” is increasingly a term for hateful, racist, close-minded ignorance, your work is a true inspiration. Too bad the media don’t find covering good things as clickable as the opposite!
—Wes Howard-Brook, Seattle, professor emeritus in Theology and Religious Studies at University of Seattle; Teacher of the “Radical Bible” series on YouTube
Quick Headlines: A Peek at Baby Kotan; Pedro Zooms to Peru; Response to Book Burners; Serving Migrants Families with Children; Young Man Quits Drugs
The special need was a leaky roof—not only dripping but multiple little streams. These leaks in the large tarp roof over the Dan Swanson Centro Cultural interfered with all the activities (and there are many) happening in the cultural center. The estimate to replace the roof? $1500. Impossible in the financial reality of the Jubilee Circle in San Mateo.
Choosing a bank is one of the core choices we make for a new economy. Banking and finance take us to the heart of economic change, and to the heart of spiritual practice. One of Jesus’ most widely recognized sayings is that in economics, we must often choose between competing deities, God and Mammon. When JEM receives your donations we want you to know that your donation will get to work immediately financing aspects of a OneEarth Jubilee economy—even before we redistribute it for ministries in the Jubilee Circles.
Earth doesn’t negotiate on CO2; nor make political deals. Humanity MUST change or various eco-regions will collapse, unable to support current usage. The Powers of corporations and governments must change systems. Considering also personal and group changes, which changes can each of us facilitate? To do so implements creation-based living and a foundation for the OneEarth Jubilee economy.
What follows is a synopsis of eight days six of us had with three Jubilee Economic Ministries (JEM) Circles in Mexico. It fails to share the emotions we experienced or even all the activities. For that, you really need to have been with us. Let us know if you’d like to travel with us on the next trip.