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Graceful 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:
- Living in a Consumer Society
- Money as a Spiritual Concern
- Graceful Living: Designing a Lifestyle Consistent with Your Faith
- First Steps in Financial Planning
- Sustaining your Graceful Lifestyle
- Just Starting Out: Launching Your Own Life
- The Accumulation Phase: Marries with (or without) Children
- Living Single
- Mid-Life Decisions
- Preparing for Retirement
- The Golden Years and Beyond
- Special Situations
- Maintaining Graceful Living
Tools for Teachers: A facilitator’s guide is included in the book.
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