Sabbath Economics Resources
You can find more Sabbath Economics Resources over at our allies Faith and Money Network’s resource page.
To search BCM resources tagged Sabbath Economics – click HERE.
Books
Healing Affluenza and Resisting Plutocracy: Luke’s Jesus and Sabbath Economics by Ched Myers (January 2025), foreword by Chuck Collins
The Biblical Vision of Sabbath Economics and Household Practices by Ched Myers and Matthew Colwell.
Money and Faith: The Search for Enough by Michael Schut
The Biblical Jubilee and the Struggle for life by Ross Kinsler and Gloria Kinsler
Sabbath and Jubilee, Understanding Biblical Themes by Richard H. Lowery
Ched has also written forwards to the two books written by Ross and Gloria Kinsler, The Biblical Jubilee and God’s Economy: Biblical Studies from Latin America
Articles
Three articles by Ched about Sabbath Economics:
*“It is an issue of equality…” Biblical Reflections on Wealth and Poverty
*Pay Attention to the Great Economy: Reflections on Luke 12:13-34 – Earth Cosmology and Sabbath Economics
*Behold, the Treasure of the Church: The poor are always with us. The questions is what we do about it.
Two Interviews of Ched about Sabbath Economics:
*Re-engaging Religious Teaching on Consumption by Gary Gardner, Worldwatch
*The Gift Must Always Move by Kayla McClurg, Inward/Outward: A Journal of the Servant Leadership School.
Videos
Mammon to Manna: Sabbath Economics and Community Investing. Featuring Andy Loving and Ched Myers (YouTube 6 Videos)
We highly recommend the online study guide for the 6 session DVD series authored by Just Money Advisor’s Dr. Susan Taylor, available HERE.
Teaching series
“Luke’s Jesus Shows and Tells Sabbath Economics”: Five Studies in the Third Gospel – Ched Myers – purchase for US$20.
This series consists of five webinar lectures on Luke’s gospel. Each session (about 90 minutes) focuses on a different “core sample” text showing how Luke portrays Jesus as a practitioner and visionary of Sabbath Economics. The texts are included on slides, and some contextual reading and analysis exercises and discussions about how to preach texts are included.
Self-Guided Study
BIO-A03 Sabbath Economics
This class:
– Outlines the ecological and social rationales for why economics should be a matter of faith and practice, and a theological framework and hermeneutic approach that “reads the Bible economically in order to read the economy biblically.”
– Explains the meaning of Sabbath Economics; explores the roots of this vision in the Hebrew Bible’s primal narratives of Creation, Exodus, Torah and the prophetic literature; and traces footprints of Sabbath Economics through the Second Testament.
– Looks at key aspects of our dominant economic cosmology, and of alternatives that center community rather than capital.
– Overviews a Sabbath Economics Household Covenant of key practices for contemporary lifestyle, with an emphasis on how we earn, bank, invest and gift our money.
Money Auto-biography
Writing a money autobiography is a challenging and illuminating process that can be crucial to our ability to understand ourselves as Christian stewards. While stewardship is about more than money, it certainly never concerns less than money; and in our modern culture, money defines, to a great extent, who we are, how we live, and what we believe. For the largest part of our society, it is impossible to envision a life without money.
There are many versions of a “Money Autobiography” (you can find several on the web), which often adapt the model in Suze Orman’s Financial Guidebook (NY: Three Rivers Press, 2002). The version below is by Dan R. Dick (posted on 2/11/15 at United Methodeviations: Rethinking Church in the 21st Century, HERE. We use it (in a slightly edited form) because it is crafted specifically for the average Christian church member. We have appended questions we developed in 2005 at BCM that specifically probes personal and family issues of class socialization and political economy.
–Ched Myers (Jan 2016)
See the BCM Money Autobiography HERE.