So I was sitting around this morning and thinking about all the junk I have in my life, and the need for me to rid myself of all the junk or at least make better use of the what I have so that others can benefit from my intense amount of possessions. I have been preaching for the last four or so years about the need for humanity, and particularly the American citizenry, to ween ourselves from our buying habits and to take the rest of the world into account when we make a socio-religious-political action in the form of buying things. If I really believe that I am to follow only Christ, than I must recognize that some things hinder me from this call and some things move me towards it. So here is what I propose: I want to catalog everything that I have. I will put up thumbnails of all my stuff on the Anti-Stuff Campaign page and you, dear reader, can let me know what you think. This isn’t about bragging, in fact it is just the opposite. I am at times ashamed of how much I have accumulated, even since I left college (five years ago I must add). I got this idea from a few different things, a personal life inventory where you try to limit yourself to 500 things, a food blog by my brother in law (which would make for an interesting commentary on faith and diet, but maybe some other time), and the need for some sort of translucence in my own life. If you don’t think I need it, tell me about it. If you want to borrow it, just ask me. I hope to begin a conversation and open accountability between the things must valuable to us, if we defined it by our actions and not just our words. So check out the page and let the conversation begin.
July 18, 2008...3:08 pm
The Anti-Stuff Campaign
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