Tag: materialism
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Should Christians Participate in Black Friday?
Allan Bevere and I discuss materialism, and Black Friday specifically.
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More Proof That Money Can’t Buy Happiness
Business Insider: More Proof That Money Can't Buy Happiness "… University of Missouri Marketing Professor Marsha Richins looks at this phenomenon in a new paper in the Journal of Consumer Research, "When Wanting Is Better Than Having," where she compares high- and low-materialist shoppers. "High-materialist" consumers have much higher expectations of what a product will do…
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Researchers study return on short-term missions
Associated Baptist Press: Researchers study return on short-term missions WACO, Texas (ABP) — Research has revealed students who participate in short-term mission trips tend to have lower levels of materialism, greater appreciation for other cultures and a better understanding of missions as a lifestyle, says a Baylor Uiversity professor studying whether short-term mission trips…
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Living in a material world
Christian Century: Living in a material world … This critique echoes the routine laments that name materialism as the sum of the human problem. This is an analysis that invites the corollary suggestion that in order for all to be well, all we really need to do is be more spiritual. What I have come…