Generosity 06: Roundtable with John Cortines, Jimmy Mellado, Sara Miller, and Christian Huang

Rule of Life

Practicing the Way

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 700 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this second roundtable on Generosity, John Mark is joined by John Cortines, co-author of God and Money; Jimmy Mellado, president of Compassion International; Sara Miller, founder of A House on Beekman and partner at Praxis Labs; and Christian Huang, president of Mobilize Love.

This wide-ranging conversation explores nuanced issues around giving and generosity, including tithing, serving the poor regardless of proximity to need, “high-touch” versus “low-touch” involvement, and how to take simple steps in the face of overwhelming inequality.

This podcast accompanies the Generosity Practice, a four-session experience designed to help integrate generosity into your community. Learn more at practicingtheway.org/generosity. Thanks to The Circle and other givers, all our resources are free. To learn more about The Circle, visit practicingtheway.org/give. To run a Practice with your church or small group, visit practicingtheway.org/resources

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Rule of Life podcast by practicing the way.
0:05.0	In each season, we explore an ancient practice from the way of Jesus and its relevance for the modern era.
0:11.0	This is Season 5 of the Rule of Life podcast.
0:41.3	This is one of two bonus episodes that we created where I kind of host a roundtable conversation
0:48.3	with leading experts in the field of generosity, luminary thinkers that I continue to learn so much from. In our final episode,
0:57.8	we have a conversation with Sarah Miller, who is a partner with Praxis out of New York City,
1:02.9	but for many years before that was a social entrepreneur and the founder of a House on Beekman
1:07.8	in the Bronx in what is considered by many to be the poorest neighborhood
1:11.7	in the United States. Also with us is Jimmy Miato, who is the president of Compassion International.
1:18.8	Christian Huang, who is the president of mobilized love and the Bay Area doing beautiful work
1:23.8	through the church among the poor. And John Cortines, who's the director of generosity
1:28.3	at the McClellan Foundation, as well as the co-author of a book I personally love called
1:33.4	God and Money that's working out the implications of Jesus' teachings for middle-to- upper-middle-class
1:39.0	Western people. These are some phenomenal souls, and I hope you learn as much from them as I did.
1:48.4	Okay, so for our conversation today, I want to start by just getting, you know, suss out a bit of
1:54.7	the wisdom of this group, just some high-level thoughts on Jesus' teachings on money and generosity.
2:02.3	And then I want to shift gears and kind of hone in on what Jesus says about generosity
2:08.5	toward what he would call the poor. And that is for the three of you, three of the four of you,
2:13.4	that's your kind of field of work. And so I want to start kind of high level for five or minutes or so and then kind of get into it.
2:21.5	So just at a high level, John, let's start with you.
2:24.5	Just let's start on a provocative note.
2:26.2	You know, just I'm feeling it.
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