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John McKnight

John McKnight is emeritus professor of education and social policy and codirector of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute at DePaul University. He is the coauthor of Building Communities from the Inside Out and the author of The Careless Society. He has been a community organizer and serves on the boards of several national organizations that support neighborhood development.
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John McKnight

The Gift of Fallibility

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Highlights from A Conversation with John McKnight and Peter Block: The Gift of Fallibility, February 7, 2012 John: Welcome, everybody. “Fallibility,” if you look in the dictionary, means “capable of error and imperfect.” It seems to me that one of the...
Conversations

Visions of a Just Economy

Adam Clark -
Conversation with Adam Clark Peter talks with Xavier University theology professor Adam Clark, a leading voice in re-imagining all the issues facing urban America, about how consumerism has become our modern religion and what justice looks like in terms of...
Conversations

Neighbors As Citizens Making Democracy Work

David Mathews -
Conversation with John McKnight, Peter Block and Guest David Mathews TalkShoe Radio  ~  February 16, 2016 https://www.talkshoe.com/recording/attachment/key/11f4b7a337008a15b356fd37ea4fecfbf2f6cc86.mp3 Chris Whitten: Welcome to another conversation with John McKnight and Peter Block. For those of you who don't know, John and Peter are the...
Conversations

Sustainable Jobs, Sustainable Local Economies

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Conversation with Michael Peck and Kristen Barker John and Peter talk with Michael and Kristen about how co-operatives are emerging as powerful forces of change and the role citizen-workers have in bringing new opportunities and family-sustaining jobs to local neighborhoods. Michael...
Friends & Neighbors

Abundant Community Edmonton

Howard Lawrence -
  Tamarack's March 23, 2016 webinar on the Abundant Community Edmonton initiative featured Howard Lawrence and Anne Harvey from the City of Edmonton, the innovators and activators of this unique neighbourhood-building framework. They were joined by John and Peter, who...
Friends & Neighbors

Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann and John McKnight in Conversation

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John and Peter were joined in their conversation on March 8, 2018 by Walter Brueggemann, co-author of their recently released new book An Other Kingdom: Departing the Consumer Culture. Also joining them were special guests and friends Peter Pula and...
Friends & Neighbors

Signs of the Times

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You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. — Matt. 16:3 The intent of An Other Kingdom is to interpret certain signs of the times. These signs have to do with...
Friends & Neighbors

John McKnight: What I Have Learned So Far

Philip Booth -
John reflects on ABCD's history, practice and future in his keynote address at the 2015 ABCD Festival held in Blackpool, England, to mark the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Asset Based Community Development Institute.   Video by Philip Booth.  
Conversations

How a City Solicitor Builds Community and a Neighborhood Economy

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Most of our focus on abundant communities is about what citizens can do to create stronger neighborhood connections and work on projects together or about how citizens are taking back into their own hands what the years of outsourcing...
Conversations

A Place at the Table

Edd Conboy -
Conversation with John McKnight, Peter Block and Guest Edd Conboy TalkShoe Radio  ~  August 8, 2015 https://www.talkshoe.com/recording/attachment/key/19dba83a6619d51024249edf98bb5c335fa30d23.mp3 Peter: I met Edd Conboy about three years ago when I was a guest at a daylong conference and I was able to get a...
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