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How Community Action Shapes Health

Deborah Puntenney -
About every six weeks, for the last five years, John and Peter have hosted online / dial-up conversations with community-building pioneers as their guests. For their June 6, 2017 dialog they invited Deborah Puntenney to share her experiences in...
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Seize the Opportunity of Crisis to Rebuild Community

Jim Diers -
When I visited Taiwan earlier this year, I was reminded that the Chinese word for crisis is comprised of two characters, one meaning danger and the other opportunity. In every crisis there is opportunity. Our world is confronted by...
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Forget Your Perfect Offering

Al Etmanski -
Forget your perfect offering, advised Leonard Cohen. There will always be another shiny concept or tool so much better than the ones you currently use. And consultants, who describe a perfect world within reach should you decide to hire them. And fundraisers,...
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Withering into the Truth

Parker J. Palmer -
Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun, Now may I wither into the truth. — William Butler Yeats In a few days, I’ll turn 78. When friends...
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Five Keys to Broad and Inclusive Community Engagement

Jim Diers -
Building strong communities is not easy. In Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam documents the decline of community life in North America. He blames poverty, suburbanization, television, and more time spent at work. Others have added fear, mobility, globalization and increased...
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Tough Love

Al Etmanski -
Here’s a little Valentine’s essay for all the caring change-makers out there, especially those whose efforts are ignored or misunderstood. ~ Al Marrying love with justice isn’t for the faint of heart. It takes an open heart to fall in love...
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Cormac Russell on Change That Starts with Communities

Rob Hopkins -
Cormac Russell was raised on the west coast of Ireland, and now lives in Dublin, although he spends much of his time travelling.  He promotes the idea of Asset-Based Community Driven Efforts, and while some of his work is based...
Conversations

Be a Neighbor First

Lisa Gale Hadden -
In her work with the Michigan Area Health Education Center executive director Lisa Hadden has developed creative ways to get medical professionals oriented to support rather than control local partners. In this discussion with John and Peter the focus...
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Are We There Yet?

Sarah Arthurs -
In a recent interview in preparation for NewScoop's conversation on An Other Kingdom, John explored the questions How will we know when we have departed the consumer culture? and How will we know we have arrived?  John believes that as we see three particular...
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Change Thoughts about Money, Change the World!

Robert H. Thompson -
Tim Soerens and Kevin Jones, founders of the SOCAP (Social Capital Markets) Conference, join Robert Thompson  to talk about money and how it is NOT working for us in a way that creates the kind of lives we should...
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Sustainable Community Development: From What’s Wrong to What’s Strong

Cormac Russell -
How can we help people to live a good life? Instead of trying to right what's wrong within a community, Cormac argues we need to start with what's strong. We need to help people discover what gifts they have...
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More with Professor Adam Clark

Adam Clark -
Adam Clark talks about today’s form of slavery and how, in addition to protest, we need to turn towards something paralleling the beloved community of the sixties. He also talks about how consumerism has become our modern religion and...
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Jubilee – Professor Adam Clark

Adam Clark -
Adam Clark, a theologian at Xavier University in Cincinnati, has a unique perspective on our modern economy and its human effects. In this video he talks about the Jubilee idea and how it brings us to the intersection of the bible...
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...
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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...
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Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann and John McKnight in Conversation

Peter Block -
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...
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Signs of the Times

John McKnight -
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...
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The Ecology of Democracy: Five Questions That Aren’t Usually Asked

David Mathews -
Kettering Foundation president and CEO David Mathews explains how people and communities can get greater control over their collective future. One way to do this is to ask questions that will reveal new possibilities for acting together on shared...
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The Creation of Politics

The Kettering Foundation -
An animated archetypal flood story that imagines how politics was first created. It counters the idea that public deliberation is some kind of new technique to be used on communities and encourages a notion of democracy that is citizen-centered.   The...
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From Subject to Citizen

The Kettering Foundation -
In an early draft of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote a word and then carefully expunged it, smearing the ink and overwriting it so as to completely obliterate the original. Using spectral imaging technology in 2010, Library...
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Corporate Capture: Can We Find a Way Out?

This article, published originally by Nonprofit Quarterly, from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” The aircraft manufacturer Boeing,...
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