Article January 2, 2012 ISSUE

A spiritual, realistic view of the economy

Michael Pabst, Nathan Talbot, Margaret Rogers, Lyle Young, Mary Trammell

This past November, the Christian Science Board of Directors gathered to present some ideas about the global economy during a Time4Thinkers podcast. This excerpt has been edited for readability. To hear the whole podcast go to: time4thinkers.com/the-economy-of-gratitude.

Michael Pabst: When we talk about the economy, we think that there’s something big out there that we don’t have any control over, and we feel threatened, and helpless. But when I looked at the definition on my iPhone, I found that the word’s origin comes from the Greek, oikonomia, which means “household management.”

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