1KHO 820: Never Have Human Beings Owned as Much as We Do Today | Joshua Becker, Uncluttered Faith

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Never have human beings owned as much as we do today and so many of us feel overwhelmed, distracted, anxious, and stretched thin. In this powerful return conversation, Joshua Becker joins Ginny Yurich to explore why the pursuit of more often leaves us with less of what matters most. Drawing from his book Uncluttered Faith, Joshua shares how owning less can lead to deeper relationships, stronger faith, greater generosity, more time with the people you love, and a life marked by purpose instead of accumulation. From four televisions becoming one to discovering that the things we chase rarely deliver what they promise, this episode is an invitation to step off the treadmill of consumerism and reclaim the life waiting on the other side. Learn more at https://www.becomingminimalist.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Urich. I'm the founder of 1,000 Hours Outside. And back today, this is a really cool follow-up because when we talked before, you were in the final stages of writing this book that we're going to talk about today, but it wasn't out yet. And I was like, oh, I'm so excited. Maybe we can have another conversation when the book comes out. Joshua Becker, the book, the new book is called Uncluttered Faith, Own Less, Love
0:22.4	More, Make an Impact in Your World. Get it at Christianbook.com. Joshua, welcome. Well, thank you.
0:29.8	I am so excited about the book. I'm so excited about you and getting to me on again. You're always
0:35.8	my favorite podcast to be on so thank you I love
0:38.9	getting to talk some more the timing worked out really well on my end because you know we make this
0:43.3	connection and you got another book coming out soon and I was like oh we're going to get to have
0:46.3	a second conversation this book is so good I took so many notes on it this is about how when
0:52.2	we pursue being more minimalist that this can help
0:56.7	our faith. And I know this summer coming up, the book came out in February, this summer
1:01.2	coming up. You're speaking at churches all over the place. I think you said you have 28 churches
1:05.2	lined up. Can you talk about how the church is receiving this message? Is there some feather ruffling or is it
1:12.9	mostly positive? Is there a mix? I think it has been incredibly positive. Very, very positive.
1:20.9	Maybe when I leave the room, feathers are being ruffled, but they don't seem to be, they don't
1:25.8	seem to be ruffling in front of me.
1:29.1	But, Ginny, I have talked about owning less for 17 or 18 years, and the number of people
1:36.8	who come up to me after I explain what I mean and say, that's wrong.
1:47.1	This is totally out of left field. I would never want anything to do with that, is pretty minimal number.
1:51.3	But when you explain how owning less frees up our life for more important things, it makes
1:59.3	sense for most people. And I think the way this book has been
2:03.6	received, I spent my whole life hearing sermons about how consumerism was evil and materialism
2:10.7	was bad, but they never seemed to really resonate with me. And so Uncluttered Faith takes a very
2:16.9	different, a positive, an invitational
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