Convening, Recruiting, and Connecting People Who Repair Local Economies
There are many things that need to connect over time for a neighborhood economy to emerge, and it takes a connected community committed over time to see it come into view. This week, I want to emphasize a different factor in the work. We were a part of a committed community of faith that wasn’t […]
This past week, my wife Donna and I were able to go back to Atlanta where we spent seventeen years of our lives. Our grandchild lives there, it’s where our oldest children were raised, and where our two oldest sons and daughter-in-law still live and work. Did I mention our grandchild lives there? Tuesday morning, I […]
Markets are not value neutral or virtuous. They play by rules designed by the people that benefit from them. “Letting the market distribute wealth as it will” is simply a recipe for letting the status quo continue. The markets will produce what the markets are designed to produce – namely consolidation of wealth into the hands of […]
These last couple of weeks have been a climate nightmare for many as we continue to deal with the effects of global warming. We saw wildfires in Maui destroy the entire city of Lahaina, parts of Canada continuing to suffer from fires, tropical storms hitting Southern California, excessive heat warnings in an unprecedented number of […]
“Money is the key to end all your woes, your ups your downs, your highs and your lows. When’s the last time that love bought your clothes? It’s like that and that’s the way it is!”Run DMC “I don’t know what they want from me, it’s like the more money we come across, the more […]
It seems that sometimes the history of what the Church has done in times of struggle gets overlooked. We seem to get lost in personalities and political agendas that move us away from who we, the Church, are in society. The Church has a long history of stepping into spaces and representing well. I think […]
Dignity is defined as being worthy of respect or honor. I often hear that everyone is deserving dignity at some level. It seems like a fairly understandable concept, but the practice of respecting people seems to be something that is pretty difficult to apply. It seems to be hardest to apply when it comes to […]