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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 2002
Page
20
Gerald Iversen, national coordinator of Alternatives for Simple Living, urges true pricing and simple gifts. The Sioux City nonprofit, founded in 1973, promotes Advent and Christmas practices away from shopping malls and excess.
Today and Sunday events at Cedar Rapids and Iowa City churches offer alternative gifts benefiting local and international projects. Founder Bob Kochiitzky notes half the group’s resources are faith based, with the rest for the general public.
Plan ahead rather than autopilot after Thanksgiving. Hold a family meeting to decide activities and assignments. Use alternative gifts, pooling funds, and a giving circle with ceilings per recipient. Give 25 percent to the needy and buy fair trade crafts.
Through 29 years Alternatives highlights consumerism concerns with the Buy Nothing Day to be observed on November 29 this year. The group hosts gift contests and workshops and promotes simple living via www.SimpleLiving.org and the 1 800 number.
The Gazette will publish a free church Christmas services and programs directory on Dec. 14 for its circulation area. Churches may submit schedules by Dec. 2 to Nicole Schuppert or Linda Cruise, including denomination, church name, address, contact, phone, and service times. Submissions go to Linda Cruise in Cedar Rapids or Nicole Schuppert in Iowa City.
Cedar Rapids noon Friday event at Mercy Medical Center features Rev Steven Rosenke. Cedar Rapids services listed for 10 am and 6 pm Sunday through Wednesday at Cedar Rapids Baptist Church with speaker Darrell Murphy. Ely First Presbyterian Church hosts guest organist Betty Debban at 3 pm Sunday. Iowa City Salvation Army offers free fresh potatoes today 8 am to noon with area churches and civic groups backing event.
The Episcopal vicar of Cedar Rapids backs the revised Roman Catholic bishops policy as protecting children while integrating rights of the accused. Bishops may remove priests, with church tribunals deciding contested cases, and lay groups urge more accountability and mandatory reporting in states like Iowa.
The Dallas Morning News reviews Donald Cozzens's Sacred Silence Denial and the Crisis in the Church a study arguing denial underpins the abuse scandal and that the church remains a feudal institution adrift in a postmodern culture.
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