🫴 Voluntary Poverty

Reflections on choosing to live with less — from monastic traditions to modern simplicity movements — and the spiritual freedom, moral clarity, or radical politics that motivate the renunciation of wealth.

The Long Loneliness

by Dorothy Day • 1952

From bohemian journalist to Catholic radical: she fed the hungry while the church debated doctrine.

4.02

6k+

✝️ Radical Catholicism ✊ Faith And Activism 🏘️ Intentional Community 🧑 Personalism 🏡 Distributism

The Long Loneliness

From bohemian journalist to Catholic radical: she fed the hungry while the church debated doctrine.

by Dorothy Day 1952

4.02

6k+ ratings

✝️ Radical Catholicism ✊ Faith And Activism 🏘️ Intentional Community 🧑 Personalism 🏡 Distributism

Freedom of Simplicity

by Richard J. Foster • 1981

A Christian path to simple living that starts with the heart, not the shopping cart.

4.21

3k+

🏡 Simple Living 🙏 Spiritual Disciplines 😌 Contentment 💰 Stewardship 🛒 Anticonsumerism

Freedom of Simplicity

A Christian path to simple living that starts with the heart, not the shopping cart.

by Richard J. Foster 1981

4.21

3k+ ratings

🏡 Simple Living 🙏 Spiritual Disciplines 😌 Contentment 💰 Stewardship 🛒 Anticonsumerism

My Religion - What I Believe

by Leo Tolstoy • 1884

Jesus didn't teach about an afterlife. He taught nonresistance, poverty, and building heaven now.

4.08

812

🏴 Christian Anarchism ✋ Nonviolence 📜 Christian Ethics 🏔️ Sermon On The Mount 🤲 Faith And Works

My Religion - What I Believe

Jesus didn't teach about an afterlife. He taught nonresistance, poverty, and building heaven now.

by Leo Tolstoy 1884

4.08

812 ratings

🏴 Christian Anarchism ✋ Nonviolence 📜 Christian Ethics 🏔️ Sermon On The Mount 🤲 Faith And Works

No Greater Love

by Mother Teresa • 1997

Radical love is a thousand tiny gestures. It starts at home, and anyone can do it.

4.37

3k+

🙏 Catholic Spirituality ✝️ Christian Living 🍞 Serving The Poor 💀 Death With Dignity 🤫 Prayer And Silence

No Greater Love

Radical love is a thousand tiny gestures. It starts at home, and anyone can do it.

by Mother Teresa 1997

4.37

3k+ ratings

🙏 Catholic Spirituality ✝️ Christian Living 🍞 Serving The Poor 💀 Death With Dignity 🤫 Prayer And Silence

Happy are You Poor

by Thomas Dubay • 1981

Radical poverty is not for saints alone. It is the normal Christian life, and it is joyful.

4.39

727

🕯️ Catholic Spirituality 🌾 Christian Simplicity 🔓 Detachment ✝️ Radical Discipleship ⛰️ Beatitudes

Happy are You Poor

Radical poverty is not for saints alone. It is the normal Christian life, and it is joyful.

by Thomas Dubay 1981

4.39

727 ratings

🕯️ Catholic Spirituality 🌾 Christian Simplicity 🔓 Detachment ✝️ Radical Discipleship ⛰️ Beatitudes

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