Comments on: Voluntary simplicity

By: hope

hope — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

First — your page is all screwed up.

Per your post — if you aren’t at least middle-class, your life is very likely enforced simplicity. The reason you only see middle and upper class people doing it is because they’re the only ones with the incomes to live a more — what? compicated? — lifestyle.

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Amongst the voluntary simplicity folks I know, who truly do come across as authentic, are the numerous Quakers I encounter on a daily basis. For them simplicity is a key spiritual discipline, and one of the 4 Quaker Testimonies (simplicity, honesty, equality, peace making). I also know some middle-class Balck Pentecostals in my community who practice voluntary simplicity, but don’t call it that. They call it being in the world, but not of the world.

By: Glenn McGaha Miller

Glenn McGaha Miller — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Hmm… Well, I’m definitely white, I’ll give you that much. But I don’t think we were “upper-middle class” even before we started moving towards simplicity, let along now! Oh, and I wouldn’t be considered “liberal” either unless you believe in the cyclical model where extreme right and extreme left meet: I’m more libertarian than anything else so I guess you have to classify me with those militia wackos if you want to disparage me that way.

By: Philocrites

Philocrites — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Desert island hymns!
Bless their hearts, the editors of Anglicans Online are soliciting readers’ all-time favorite hymns. They invite you to nominate the single hymn you’d take with you to a desert island. Hmm. A hymn is awfully portable — you don’t need…