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Testimonials From WWJB Converts!  Read testimony from the fevered masses undergoing CONVERSION TO BUYLESSNESS after their WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY? experiences. Just saw WWJB and think you are doing great work. Though I agree with your mission I find it hard to put into practice due to social pressure. For example, last Christmas I told my family I didn't want to exchange gifts, and they all got me gifts anyways, which made me feel like a loser at present-opening time since I had come empty-handed. Anne, Columbia, South Carolina Dear Anne, You mean the gift-tradition is so automatic that none of your relatives slipped in a little hint? Amazing. But we have some encouragement for you, as you read some of these letters - people really are re-discovering gift-giving. People are saying: A gift has meaning not only because of what you give, but also how the creation of the gift impacted the world... Amen? --Rev  To the Church of Stop Shopping: I have shopped at Wal Mart for low prices but now see the error of my ways....Hallelujah!!!! I want to be a disciple. Randall, Pensacola, Florida Dear Randall: We often close our shows with the song BACK AWAY, and it says, "When the lowest prices hit... Wal-Mart will it always reach me?" I wish you the power you need to resist! -- Rev  Dear rev May the soils upon which I walk spring sustaining fruits. May I ask what percentage of return on an investment is gluttonous. May the tools I use be primarily of the heart, mind, and hand. May I not just walk the talk but may I dance it. Tim, Walpole, New Hampshire Dear Tim Change-a-lujah! We Americans don't make that connection easily - between our heart and mind and dancing and gluttony - and the vulnerable people beyond the horizon. We're teaching ourselves something that the Demon Monoculture erases with its marketing, for its profits... -- Rev Dear Reverend and Choir, I have sinned two-fold against thy teachings. Not only had I unsubscribed from your newsletter for some time, I also watched a pirated version of your movie. I intend to make up for my sins by attending your shows, again and soon. Perhaps, a documentary movie tip will quench the immediate flames I feel a-licking: the 4-part BBC doc "The Century of the Self" is a wealth of information aimed at explaining how America became a society of shopaholics. And Reverend - If you have any intention of creating sub-titles in German for the movie, I'd be interested to work with you on a translation of the script. Forgive a sinner -- Henning, Kingston, New York Henning, your struggle with your sins is very articulate, one might even say - practiced! And very German. Can we take you up on your offer? The Germans invite us to their cities and arts festivals often, six times so far - Augsburg, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Boechum, and Berlin twice. But we always feel like they stopped their shopping long ago. They are the best recyclers and dumpster-divers in the world. The think I am an Elvis impersonator, since they've kept the Jimmy Swaggarts from their shores. - Rev  Just saw your movie and it was great. I've already asked family and friends to make donations to the charities of their choice as a gift to my wife and I. I will do the same for all gifts this year. -Matt, Canada Matt - so will we. Amen. Then the political world-saver in me immediately wonders, "How many people would do this?" This is simple, but it is radical, and for habitual consumers it is counter-intuitive. Giving gifts you don't pay a corporation for? This is emotionally risky. But the earth require this of us now. We can't argue with what has happened - now we must change. -Rev Rev and Savitri: I just watched the movie. I've waged my own personal attack on Pseudoamerica recently. I can't tell you how disgusted and helpless I feel at times watching people sponsor child labor and concentration camp style work environments abroad. You have my full support. Patrick, Boise, Idaho We need to remember that well-meaning people believe in this economy. There is a popular theory of nation-state evolution that says "Poor countries need to sacrifice a generation to sweatshops." David Brooks in the NY Times believes this. This is pure chauvinism - imperial thinking - and assumes that people in other countries didn't have any economy before we showed up. - Rev |
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STOP SHOPPING, BLOG-ALLUJAH! 
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YOU and your choir rock...I'm waiting for the day to see you in Portland. In the meantime, the theater was packed last night as we watched your movie. Nice job! Keep up the great work! Thanks! No shopping for me! -T
Fri, August 29 : : Rev Preaching At Burning Man
: : Black Rock City, NV
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Sat, September 13 @ 8:00 PM : : Church of Stop Shopping at Hamilton College
: : Wellin Hall, Clinton, NY
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Sun, September 14 @ 12:00 PM : : Ecstatic Funeral For The Supermall
: : Destiny NY Mall, Syracuse, NY
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Wed, September 17 @ 8:00 PM : : Church of Stop Shopping at Iowa State
: : Iowa State University, Ames, IA
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Thu, September 25 @ 12:30 PM : : California State University
: : California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA
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