Lee Van Ham's daughter Lauren is the guest for The Common Good podcast. This time we captured a bit of video to accompany things. Here is a bit of the footage. Lauren is a chaplain who has experience in corporate, hospital...
The Maya Vinic Fair trade and organic coffee cooperative from the Indigenous Maya people of the civil society organization Las Abejas (the bees), in Chiapas, Mexico. The video shows how the cooperative emerged as a positiv...
Here's a bit of behind the scenes footage of Doug Clegg, the fiercely talented multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter who also happens to be the president of our non profit organization, Jubilee Economics Ministries. Doug...
Music starts at 1:46. An ode to the regenerative power of time spent in nature and rural settings. Doug Clegg is the president of the Jubilee Economics Ministries board. While in town for an all-JEM gathering, Doug enterta...
Music starts at 1:00. A humorous case for letting history decide who is worthy of being carved into stone on Mt. Rushmore. Doug Clegg is the president of the Jubilee Economics Ministries board. While in town for an all-JEM...
Music starts at 1:54. A stirring reflection on the ambiguous feelings of returning home to a life of advantage and comfort after seeing and working with displaced persons (because of natural disaster, etc.) Doug Clegg is t...
Here's a bit of behind the scenes footage of Doug Clegg, the fiercely talented multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter who also happens to be the president of our non profit organization, Jubilee Economics Ministries. Doug...
A whimsical look at life from the perspective of a reptile. Doug Clegg is the president of the Jubilee Economics Ministries board. While in town for an all-JEM gathering (well, the best we can considering our geographic sp...
Lee Van Ham of Jubilee Economics Ministries addresses a group at the Southern California/Nevada Conference of the United Church of Christ (UCC). Lee addresses the topic of encouraging churches to embrace the one-earth econ...
Lee Van Ham of Jubilee Economics Ministries revisits his preaching roots (no, really, 32 years!) with a guest appearance at Southeast Presbyterian church, an African American congregation. Lee talks about the Jubilee from ...
Lee Van Ham of Jubilee Economics Ministries holds the conviction that imagination is vital to moving forward in economics by allowing the space to critique and push the boundaries of common practice. Furthermore, he remind...
Lee Van Ham of JEM discusses the ecological imperative for churches and congregations (or organizations of any sort) to address the great issues of our time with a cosmological consciousness. He talks about ecology being t...
Lee Van Ham discusses how congregations can tap the conversion language of their faith to move from economics of unlimited growth in a limited Creation. The Bible's cosmological view is a major asset to envision the kind o...
With the coming decade, people need to live within a different economic paradigm of more cooperation and respect for the created order. Lee Van Ham talks about how banking can express or conflict with a church's (or other ...
Lee Van Ham explains the biblical origins and goals of the Jubilee, an alternative vision of economics and life that stood in opposition to the empires/superpowers of the day— deliverance from slavery/domination at the han...
About Jubilee Economics Ministries
Mission
To promote practices, ideas, and stories for living economically on Earth, our one-planet home.
Vision
Another world is possible when we:
Share resources fairly
Reclaim the planet for future generations
Hold sacred the interrelatedness of life
Live intentionally in peace and community
... in order that those with more will not have too much and those with less will not have too little— not someday, but now.
JEM is a 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1999.
Mission
To promote practices, ideas, and stories for living economically on Earth, our one-planet home.