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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 Northwestern University.

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Peter Block and John McKnight in Conversation

On Dec. 12, 2016, more than 60 callers listened to Peter Block and John McKnight reflect on their long history of working to building communities by focusing on gifts and connecting people. They discuss what ideas have endured and what questions remain. (more…)

Visions of a Just Economy

Conversation with Adam Clark Peter talks with Xavier University theology professor Adam Clark, a leading voice...

Walter Brueggemann, John McKnight, and Peter Block

An Other Kingdom: The Background

Coauthors of An Other Kingdom, Walter Brueggemann, John McKnight, and Peter Block, talked with Peter Pula and Michelle Strutzenberger (Axiom News) about the new book. They describe how the three of them came together and why the religion of consumerism needs serious rethinking.

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Conversation with John, Peter and Walter

Tuesday, March 8 at 1:00 pm Eastern ~ Free online/dial-up conversation Walter Brueggemann, John McKnight, and...

An Other Kingdom

by Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann, and John McKnight available at the following: Powells Barnes & Noble...

An Other Kingdom

Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann, and John McKnight have written a new book, An Other Kingdom, to...

Community Building Through Gifts

Building strong neighborhoods becomes a matter of everybody contributing as many of their gifts as they...

You Can’t Command Care

Institutional systems can command many behaviors but they cannot command care. Care is the commitment of...

The Stranger

John McKnight speaking about the gifts of the stranger.

The Abundant Community

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Building a Healthy and Just Community

Highlights from John and Peter’s May 29, 2012 Conversation with Mike Butler, Police and Fire Chief,...

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I have tried to teach service to my husband and revolution to my son.

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The power to call people a problem is the most injurious thing you can do.

John McKnight

Though the commons is everywhere, it is nonetheless little noticed. For economists, it is a kind of inchoate mass that awaits the vivifying hand of the market to attain life. Forests are worthless until they become timber, just as quiet is worthless until it becomes advertising.

Jonathan Rowe, Our Common Wealth

Revolution is not capturing institutions, it is discovering free space and enlarging it.

Paul Goodman

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.

Italian Proverb

A part of kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

If I am ever stuck on a respirator or life support system, I definitely want to be unplugged-but not until I get down to a size eight.

Henriette Mantel

When we meet, I am talking to myself and you are spying on me.

Leroy

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

Adrienne Rich

Lost luggage is an initiation ritual. It is an invitation to a simpler life.

Madeline Nold

Questions are fateful. They determine destinations. They are the chamber through which destiny calls.

Godwin Hlatshwayo

If your time hasn’t come, not even a doctor can kill you.

Meyer A Perlstein

I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.

Henry Miller

Our communities are broken. For the ones that look whole, the price is being born somewhere else.

Jim Keene

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

Joseph Joubert

Most communities can be compared to a football game where 30,000 people who need the exercise turn up to watch 36 people who don’t.

Peter Kenyon

Leadership is willingness to have faith in a future we do not understand.

Clint Kemp

I fear one day I’ll meet God, he’ll sneeze, and I won’t know what to say.

Ronnie Shakes

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kierkegaard

Every time you add a highway lane, you slow down traffic.

Bross’s paradox

All consciousness begins with an act of disobedience.

Carl Jung

Education is never neutral. It always involves a project…either keep things the same or change them.

Paolo Friere