Simpler living compassionate life : a Christian perspective / edited and compiled by Michael Schut ; foreword by Bill McKibben with Cecile Andrews [and others].

Introduction to The sacred journey / Frederick Buechner -- The good life and the abundant life / Michael Schut -- Excerpt from The overworked American / Juliet Schor -- The spirituality of everyday life / Cecile Andrews -- Entering the emptiness / Gerald May -- Contemplation and ministry / Henri Nouwen -- Spending money as if life really mattered / Evy McDonald -- Money / william Stringfellow -- The big economy, the great economy / Michael Schut -- Christian faith and the degradation of creation / John B. Cobb, Jr. -- How much is enough? / Alan Durning -- Word and flesh / Wendell Berry -- The pleasures of eating / Wendell Berry -- The great hunter-gatherer continuum / James T. Mulligan -- Christian existence in a world of limits / John B. Cobb, Jr. -- Structural changes / Cecile Andrews -- The lifestyle of Christian faithfulness / William Gibson -- Introduction to the politics of simplicity / Jerome Segal -- Epilogue from The simple life / David Shi -- Simplicity among the saints / Richard J. Foster -- Some notes from Belshaz'zar's feast / Timothy Weiskel -- Creation's care and keeping / Calvin DeWitt -- The discipline of simplicity / Richard J. Foster -- Worldview as inheritance / Michael Schut -- Traditional Western view of reality / Duane Elgin -- Healing ourselves and the earth / Shantilal Bhagat -- Sacred cosmology and the ecological crisis / Philip Sherrard -- Building community / Cecile Andrews -- Winter solstice at the Moab slough / Terry Tempest Williams -- Seeing the sacred in the ordinary / James T. Mulligan -- Extending our circle of compassion / Michael Schut.