Jubilee Economics

09/29/2025

You are invited to a free 1-hour Jubilee Forum via zoom

with Cynthia Moe-Lobeda
hosted by Lee Van Ham
A Jubilee 25th Anniversary Forum
Saturday, October 4, 9am PDT

Building a Moral Economy Initiative:
Pathways for People of Courage

Participants in this Jubilee Forum will meet Cynthia Moe-Lobeda who’s leading a team
of people in a major project that enables people to participate in building a more
equitable, ecological and democratic economy. She and her team (who we’ll meet in
future Forums) give us pathways to live a moral economy. The pathways challenge us.
Do we have the will? the faith? the courage? the moral imagination?
Cynthia will unfold some pathways to building a more ecological and equitable
economy, why she undertook this initiative, and the bold scale of it.

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Explore the website, Building a Moral Economy. https://www.buildingamoraleconomy.org/,
where you can scroll down to a book trailer.
Register: If you have never participated in a Jubilee Forum, please register by sending me an
email, [email protected]. In response, you’ll get the Zoom link you need.

Explore 'Building a Moral Economy' by Cynthia Moe-Lobeda. Join the movement for justice & sustainability through ethical economic practices.

09/29/2025

Here’s Your Invitation to the Free October 4 Forum
on Moral Economy with Cynthia Moe-Lobeda
9 am PDT

The word “moral” is not the word that comes to mind to describe the U.S. “economy.” Immorality in the current economy makes it our job to imagine an economy that generates moral relationships with Earth and all her inhabitants.

Saturday, October 4, 9 am PDT
FREE

The initiative by Cynthia Moe-Lobeda and her team for “Building a Moral Economy” fits with what we do in Jubilee Economics Ministries. So we’re joining in this mission.

What you can do before the October 4 Forum:

Buy Cynthia’s book, Building a Moral Economy: Pathways for People of Courage. You can avoid fueling Amazon by buying from Better World Books and other alternatives.
Visit the website for Building a Moral Economy where there is also a short book trailer.
Read the blogs I post to OneEarth Connections Substack,. I post only 2 or 3 times a month. Subscriptions are free. The latest one is “Beyond GDP—A Moral Economy.”
Register by sending me an email, [email protected], and we’ll get the Zoom link sent to you.

09/01/2025

Good morning,
This coming Saturday, Jeanne Peterson will talk at the Jubilee Forum about her experiences accompanying people in courthouses and doing something to resist disappearances. She sent this article which I found fascinating. Its link to Latin American accompanying resonates for me. Witnessing to the reality that people are being disappeared stirs me rather deeply. Whatever compassion that can be shown strikes me as profoundly human and spiritual.

Lee

08/28/2025

FREE Jubilee Forum, Sat., Sep. 6, 9-10am PDT with guest Jeanne Peterson who volunteers to accompany immigrants at the courthouses. She'll share experiences. Register by sending me an email, [email protected].

In the 2nd half of the hour we'll focus on living a moral economy in the middle of the dominant one now hurting so many. The big HURT is coming harder this fall.

08/14/2025

Just posted a new article to Substack about needing new measure beyond GDP to get to a moral economy. I hope you can take a look.

The economy of today disturbs me.

07/14/2025

Just completed an article that I posted to substack. Title: Choosing a Bank Is a Spiritual Practice.

Your suggestions and corrections are welcome. You can subscribe for FREE so don't be intimidated by that "subscribe" word.

Banking and finance take us not only to the heart of economic change, but also to the heart of our spiritual practice.

02/23/2025

Small is surprisingly powerful and an antidote to feelings of impotence. Follow me?

Powers Hiding in Our Feelings of Impotence

02/11/2025

Pastor: Should I send my children to school?

Pastor: Who will take care of my children if I get deported? I'm afraid to go to work.

Pastor: You say we shouldn't open the door,
but if the police knock very hard, should I open it or not?

Pastor: Could you be the person who stays with my children if both of us are deported?

Our plan is to buy groceries online because we're too afraid to go to the stores.

Pastor: If I get deported, they will kill me there.

Pastor: I'm not going to accompany you to the house services or the united service anymore. I'm too afraid to leave my house.

Pastor: The only person my children have here is me. I pray to God that I am not deported.



I fled from sexual abuse in my country 15 years ago. I have nothing there; my children don’t speak Spanish very well.

02/11/2025

The Adoration of Mammon, destroying our government, is the name of Lee's latest essay on Substack. Read, share in your activism, subscribe.

Is Mammon Deity or Demon?

01/28/2025

Jubilee Forum of 2025, the 25th Year of Jubilee Economics Ministries

Saturday, February 1, 9am PST

Register free for an hour with Chuck Collins, with one another and with Mother Earth

Huge Wealth Endangering Democracy and Life for All

with Guest: Chuck Collins

Contact [email protected] to request the Zoom link.

We wrestle with autocracy and capitalism. Sometimes they do what we hope for. But most of the time they do not. They are designed to tilt to wealth and domination, not to Earth and her multitude of species. So we give a lot of effort to creating alternatives to economic and political dominators. That is also what Chuck Collins has done and continues doing. Our hour with him will help us.

01/21/2025

Just posted to OneEarth Connections (substack) the essay I completed this morning on the dangers of huge wealth to all of life. Hope you'll take a look. I feature the work of Chuck Collins.

Focus: The Inequality Work of Chuck Collins