a crust where love is

At our next session, the deep end will be thinking about a buynothingchristmas: see

http://www.buynothingchristmas.org/images/docs/Info-kit_Nov-05-02.doc

for material on this.  Yes, in part it's just a provocative discussion starter, but there are real practical ideas (as well as biblical and liturgical material) and I'm hoping we'll end with real action, not just talk.

On related issues, an article about usury has been doing the rounds of the blogs: it's originally on

http://www.utne.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=utne_web_specials&story.id=618.

And if you want to see what taking the sin of usury seriously in practice might mean (it's about campaigning, but also about you and I thinking about moving our investments - perhaps to islamic banks), read John Richardson's article here on

http://thedeepend.squarespace.com/article-of-the-month-usury/

(It's been article of the month for three months, but I won't take it off until someone engages with it seriously).