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book coverGraceful Living: Your Faith, Values, and Money in Changing Times

Author  The Reverend Laura Dunham, Certified Financial Planner
Format  paperback, 170 pages
ISBN  not applicable
Published  2001
Publisher  Ecumenical Stewardship Center
Price  $14.95

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Audience: Young adults, adults

Setting: Individual or small group with facilitator

Scope: An easy-to-read and understand four-part discussion that provides readers the opportunity to reflect on their attitudes toward money, clarify their values, and develop a comprehensive financial plan with strategies for implementation at various life stages. Each chapter includes questions for reflection and discussion.

Purpose: A resource for people of faith who are seeking ways to integrate their faith and the values derived from that faith into their lifestyle choices and financial decision-making.

Summary: One of the greatest barriers to living gracefully is one's attitude toward money. Virtually all lifestyle choices involve money to one degree or another. How much one has, how to get more, and what one does with the financial resources available are a constant source of tension and conflict for most people. Every choice a person makes to share, save, or spend has an impact, creating a ripple effect. Dunham guides the reader from “Choosing How to Live” through “Putting Your Financial House in Order,” and “Planning Through Life’s Transitions” to “Last Words.”

Contents:

  1. Living in a Consumer Society
  2. Money as a Spiritual Concern
  3. Graceful Living: Designing a Lifestyle Consistent with Your Faith
  4. First Steps in Financial Planning
  5. Sustaining your Graceful Lifestyle
  6. Just Starting Out: Launching Your Own Life
  7. The Accumulation Phase: Marries with (or without) Children
  8. Living Single
  9. Mid-Life Decisions
  10. Preparing for Retirement
  11. The Golden Years and Beyond
  12. Special Situations
  13. Maintaining Graceful Living

Tools for Teachers: A facilitator’s guide is included in the book.

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