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'Living with Money' curriculum helps churchgoers understand role, power of money
Episcopal News Service
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2003-069-7
Posted: Friday, March 28, 2003
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A groundbreaking educational curriculum for churches that helps people understand the role, power and impact of money in their lives is now available from the Episcopal Media Center.
Living with Money, a video-based program with supporting printed materials, 'shines the light of faith on the taboo subject of money to help people develop a balanced, wholesome, rewarding 'money life,'' said the Rev. Louis C. Schueddig, producer and the Episcopal Media Center's president and executive director. 'Living with Money encourages dialog on the subject of money in the context of the Christian faith.'
The catalyst for the project, which took four years to fund and develop, is the Rev. Davis L. Fisher, an Evanston, Illinois, money consultant and Episcopal priest. 'Everyone has a 'money life,' whether we acknowledge it or not,' Fisher says. 'Almost nobody talks about it. From our earliest years and throughout our life our attitude toward money influences who we are and what we become.'
Living with Money features four video programs with a panel of eight experts from a variety of disciplines. Their conversations supply the foundation for further discussion by participants and a group leader. Panelists, in addition to Fisher, are Glinda Bridgforth, Detroit-based financial counselor, founder of Bridgforth Financial Group and author of 'Girl, Get Your Money Straight'; John Haughey, a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, professor of Christian ethics at Loyola University in Chicago, and author of 'The Holy Use of Money' and 'Virtue and Affluence'; George Kawasaki, a Chicago branch manager of Ron Blue & Company, which offers financial, estate and investment counsel; Olivia Mellan of Washington, DC, a psychotherapist specializing in conflict resolution of money issues, and author of 'Money Harmony'; Francisco Menachca, senior bank officer with Bank One in Chicago and manager of community outreach and education programs; Vicki Robin of Seattle, president of New Roadmap Foundation, and co-author of 'Your Money or Your Life'; and William Schweiker, professor at the University of Chicago School of Divinity, chairman of an international research project called People and Property, and author of 'Responsibility and Christian Ethics.'
Each set of Living with Money includes four programs on two videos with closed captioning, a leader's guide and a participant's journal, and sells for $125 plus shipping and handling. The printed resources were prepared by Morehouse Publishing. For more information, call 800-229-3788 or visit the Episcopal Media Center website, www.episcopalmedia.org.
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