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Enough: Contentment in an Age of Excess is unavailable, but you can change that!

How much is enough? In an age of conspicuous consumption-of designer sunglasses, jeweled cell phones, and five-thousand-square-foot homes-is it possible to be content? In a society where children spend more time worrying about their weight than their grades, is it possible to find peace? In a world being drained of its natural resources, is it conceivable that we do nothing? And with a universe...

But most of us do not know anyone hungry or thirsty. We do not know someone without clothing or in prison. No strangers come to our door to be welcomed in. Who, then, is the other? JESUS AND SUSTAINABILITY Another surprising aspect of the life of Christ was his work toward the restoration of the physical. As Robert Farrar Capon notes, every miracle of Jesus except one, the cursing of the fig tree, was a miracle of the restoration of the creation.2 Jesus healed lepers and cast out demons; he even