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Money and Soul explores our troubled relationship with money, with finance, and with the economic system in which we are all entangled. It invites readers to consider how childhood experiences with money can shape attitudes, and how attention to individual conscience and shared Quaker values can illuminate big finance and economics questions that lie in the shadows, but cry out for more light. The pamphlet offers a brief sketch of how our political economy has shifted since the late 1970s from a concern for common welfare to a focus on private gain, and offers suggestions, using the framework of the testimonies, for ways that Friends can bring personal practices around money and personal witness around the economy into closer alignment with faith values. This is an invitation to those for whom finance and economics may seem like a closed book to find new openings for discernment and action. Discussion questions included. -- Publisher's description.… (more)
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Haines uses Friends' testimonies as a very helpful guide for her discussion. She addresses both the challenge to rethink some aspects of the economic system and to find specific helpful actions in our lives. While readers might tweak some of her assertions or emphasize other important aspects of economic relations, this is a wonderful, encouraging, and stimulating contribution to the critical challenge before us.
Haines concludes with a foundational reminder that to reclaim our economy's divine vocation will require us to exercise our spiritual muscles, our faithfulness to hope, courage, and connection. Then as we walk together, we will make the path.