Parents and Grandparents – here’s a meaningful gift for kids you love (and for yourself too!)
Cory and the Seventh Story will help kids you love learn how to recognize stories that create conflict and stories that lead to peace. Important in these times!
It's available for pre-order now - for Christmas delivery. It's co-written with Irish peace-activist Gareth Higgins and illustrated by award-winning Heather Lynn Harris.
You can also pre-order a companion e-book for adults, The Seventh Story: Us, Them, and the End of Violence.
You can learn more here and order here.
https://brianmclaren.net/store/
https://www.theseventhstory.com/
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Our new “all ages” children’s book – available now!
Cory and the Seventh Story is about a young raccoon who discovers the power of storytelling to bring peace in the Old Village. It's available for pre-order now - for Christmas delivery. It's co-written with Irish peace-activist Gareth Higgins and illustrated by award-winning Heather Lynn Harris.
You can also pre-order a companion e-book for adults, The Seventh Story: Us, Them, and the End of Violence.
You can learn more here and order here.
https://brianmclaren.net/store/
https://www.theseventhstory.com/
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What I Shared at Mountaintop Lecture Series
in Dahlonega, GA.
It was a pleasure to be with you all again! Keep up the great work ... and may the movement spread!
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Q & R: Other economic systems?
Here's the Q:
Ever since watching your presentations at Conspire 2018, I have been devouring your YouTube videos and internet articles. I am starting to read your books, too, but haven't yet finished them so maybe you answer my question in one of them. Please excuse me if you have.
In one of your videos, or at the Conspire conference, I now can't remember where I heard this, you spoke about the possibility of other forms of economic systems rather than the current one that we practice world wide that we must constantly grow our economy. You said that our earth cannot accommodate this. I have thought this way for many years. Why do we always seem to focus on how much the economy is growing? Why is our economy in the U.S. so tied to the construction industry which to me just seems to destroy more and more of nature and to use up our natural resources?
My economics background is limited to one course in high school. But your comment interested me. What are other options? Where can I learn about these options? The way our world is going at present doesn't seem to me to be consistent with stewarding God's creation, maintaining it for future generations and all the world's people yet I don't know enough to decide what other ways are available and how I can contribute in my little way in bringing about these other more sustainable economic systems.
Thanks for your incredible thoughts and guidance.
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It is good, in these mean times, to
It is good, in these mean times, to
Notice beauty,
Savor kindness,
and open the soul to what is clear, pure, radiant, and
Wise.
For ignorance, arrogance, petulance, and violence are
Corrosive and
Contagious, unless
We fortify and resist
With intentional turnings of the heart
Toward what is humble, virtuous, and genuine
With innocence beyond naivete:
Like that mountain in the orange glow of sunset,
That day when we roamed free,
Or that moon, perfect behind a veil of thin clouds, as
We took a night walk and spoke freely,
Or the daily encore of gentle dawn light,
Or the bursting forth of that spring by the roadside with
Water clear beyond clear,
Or even in these clear tears shed by mourners with hearts broken open, after the latest
Atrocity about which the powerful will blaspheme with
Murky promises of "thoughts and prayers" (and nothing more).
A tornado of fecality rages, beloved, so do not miss
The holiness of beauty
Whenever is appears, for in these mean times,
One can forget to breathe,
And push,
And see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9to1E8gQeI
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