Gifts

On November 9, Joe Paterno, legendary football coach of Penn State, got fired. His boss, the president of Penn State, also got fired. The reason they got fired was that eleven years ago, when they were told that their...

Bill Moyers is one of our strongest voices for democracy and a culture of care for the commons. Read this and weep:  How Wall Street Occupied America by Bill Moyers, The Nation, November 21, 2011. Excerpt posted November 2, 2011 at http://www.thenation.com/article/164349/how-wall-street-occupied-america?page=0,0

In this segment of his video interview Capacity Building Beyond Community Services with The Minnesota Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities, John talks about some of the reasons why social services systems can only provide "service," not care. In other segments he goes into the meaning of...

The alumni of the Pepperdine University Master of Science in Organization Development wanted to have a conference where members of the alumni community could gather, learn and share, be real and be accepted. To help them stay focused on...

In a recent email to her South African colleagues, Louise van Rhyn shared a thought-provoking video of South African physician, anthropologist and activist Mamphela Ramphele. Louise asks, what are the parallels between Ramphele's thinking about the meaning of "citizen" and...

Anthropologists remind us that the manifestations of a community’s culture are its food, language, arts, and faith. These are the ways that have interwoven through time so that a community knows how to survive in its place. Because cultural ways...

I had the pleasure of interviewing Peter about how we understand and enact community within the framework of our lives that exist in place-based communities, taking into account the complexities of our simultaneous allegiances to multiple communities. Peter also...

For many people, “parenting” is a word describing a burden. Usually, they’re correct because they’re carrying an unprecedented load, heaped on their backs throughout the twentieth century. First, many modern married couples were slowly detached from supporting relationships. They live...