Generosity

Priscilla Corcoran Mooney was just 30 years old when she became her town’s mayor. A community of approximately 250 people on the Cape Shore of Newfoundland, Canada, the Town of Branch knows how to focus on their assets and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

January When we lose the ability to care for our neighbours, we also inadvertently chart a course towards a future wherein that carelessness becomes our inheritance. Neighbourliness is embodied in the practice of welcomiReflectionsng the stranger at the edge, and the...

What are Stone Soup Moments and how do you know that one has occurred? The soup created by Bev Webber, a Red Seal trained chef, and served at the Unitarian Church  community roundtable was corn chowder. But it was actually...

BALLE Executive Director Michelle Long answers the question “If you had five minutes to convey what being alive means to you, what would you say?”   Re-posted from the “Stories from the Road” web short series from Festival of Faiths, which used...

Cincinnati, Ohio, is among the fastest growing cities in the Midwest. It hosts corporate giants like Procter & Gamble and Kroger, and some of its close-in neighborhoods have become chic, with coffee shops and new condominiums. But prosperity is not...