Every year around Christmas and Chanukah time, writers, commentators, pundits and many rabbis, priests and ministers exhort Americans against spending money on things. We are too materialistic, we are ...

Even before recent obstacles like shortages and a rise in inflation, research has shown that more and more Americans desire to adopt minimalism and declutter. The Little Way of Living With Less, ...

During his first Angelus address of the month, Pope Francis asked his listeners on Sunday to seek the path of charity, “which keeps nothing for itself but shares everything.” “Material things do not ...

Skip love, health, liberty, for believers the grace of God, and the like: They are surely the most important, but they're also pretty obvious. Tell us what material things you most appreciate. They ...

A poor person looking up at my residence could mistake it for one of the barns belonging to the rich man Jesus talked about—the one who didn't know his soul was buried beneath all that corn and ...

This paper investigates Kit Fine’s account of the nature of material objects – the theory of embodiments. This theory is custom-fitted to an intuitive distinction between ‘timeless’ and ‘temporary’ ...

I have written a few blog entries in the past on the observation from research by Tom Gilovich and Leaf Van Boven as well as by Elizabeth Dunn, Dan Gilbert, and Tim Wilson that people get more ...

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