I'm Krista Tippett. Today, money and moral balance. It's mid-November, Christmas

trappings are already appearing in stores, and many of us are winding up to

spend more money than we actually have towards a holiday season with deep

roots in religion. I believe the church has been complicit in sort of getting

sucked into this whole persuasive argument about the role of consumerism and

our culture, and I really don't think they have understood the impact of what

that means for people's souls and what it robs us in terms of just our

personal sense of being. This hour with Financial Educator Nathan Dungan will

discuss the intersection of money and values in U.S. culture and in our families.

Dungan offers practical tools for creating a counter-rhythm to consumer

access. This is speaking of faith. Stay with us.

I'm Krista Tippett. Many Americans name greed and materialism as a moral crisis.

This unease unites us across other differences, but so too does the holiday

shopping frenzy, which is just around the corner. This hour will revisit my

2006 conversation with Nathan Dungan on the conflict many of us experience

between what we care about and how we spend our money. Dungan is a financial

educator with a framework for bringing money into practical and moral balance

in individual lives and in our families. From American public media, this is

speaking of faith. Public radio's conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas.

Today, money and moral balance part of consumed a series on sustainability from

this and other American public media programs. The root of the word credit is

credo to entrust or to believe the same Latin root with which the great

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