The great thing about a migraine (I know, stay with me) is that it gives me a chance to lie in the dark and catch up on podcasts. Sure, I am a fan of This American Life, Selected Shorts, and old time radio shows, but the best thing going, if you ask me, is Wisconsin Public Radio’s/PRI’s To the Best of Our Knowledge.

Today I listened to an episode in TTBOOK’s Future Perfect series, this one on the theme of “our money,” in which a bunch of thinkers talk economic theory. Sounds boring, I know, but if when you think “economy” you only think about how much is in your bank account vs. the total of your outstanding bills, and how that situation might improve or get worse based on what politicians do, take a listen. There is so much more world out there, and the interviews with Muhammad Yunus and Greg Mortensen are particularly full of pictures of self-donation and downward mobility. And I mean those two phrases the way Jesus might mean them, not the way Wikipedia does.

Listen here.