I'm Krista Tippett, today living differently beyond economic crisis, a new installment in

our ongoing series, Repossessing Virtue.

Hundreds of listeners have joined our conversation about the human and the practical spiritual

aspects of our economic present.

This hour, you'll hear eight of their voices, putting words around experiences many of us

are having and imparting some wisdom from disparate angles on life.

When I lost my job, I experienced this shame.

Even though it happened really through no fall of my own, I was afraid to tell people

it was almost like contracting a disease.

It's sort of like the search for money has become a sacred thing, as opposed to the

care and love of people and their common life together.

This is speaking of faith, stay with us.

This public radio podcast is supported by the Fetzer Institute as part of its campaign

for Love and Forgiveness, online at loveandforgive.org.

I'm Krista Tippett.

This hour, a new installment in our ongoing series, Repossessing Virtue, bringing the voices

of our listeners into a conversation we've been building online and on air since the

economic downturn began in the fall of 2008.

We've been tracing the spiritual and moral contours of our economic present.

How changed circumstances are confronting many of us with questions of what matters in

life and what most deeply sustains us, what we are learning in this moment and how we

might live differently beyond it to shape the next American dream.

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