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Walter Brueggemann is one of the most influential Old Testament scholars of the last several decades, known throughout the world for his method of combining literary and sociological modes when reading The Bible.

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Embracing Fallibility

Peter Block and Walter Brueggemann discuss the framing of death as personal failure that can be...

Empire vs. Community

Peter Block and Walter Brueggemann discuss Empire and the toxic belief it perpetuates — that who...

Nurturing a New Narrative

Peter Block and Walter Brueggemann discuss the role of the church in shifting from a consumerist...

Pain and Marching

Peter Block and Walter Brueggemann discuss the need to give voice to pain and take action...

Restorative Community

Peter Block and Walter Brueggemann discuss the toxic effects of privatization and overconsumption and call for...

Signs of Aliveness

Peter Block discusses the parallels between “aliveness” in spaces and aliveness in communities. Source: Travis Reed...

The Alternative Story

Peter Block discusses shifting our goals from transformation to invitation, as well as the need for...

Uncredentialed Thoughts

Peter Block and Walter Brueggemann discuss the inspirational nature of friendship and the replacement of “hope”...

Commodifying Love

Peter discusses commodifying love in an interview with Travis Reed.

Narrative of Scarcity

The Biblical source of the consumer mandate that what we have isn’t enough.

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Journey to the Common Good by Walter Brueggemann

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

Bross’s paradox

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

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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

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

Joseph Joubert

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

All consciousness begins with an act of disobedience.

Carl Jung

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

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

John McKnight

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

Godwin Hlatshwayo

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

Leroy

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

Clint Kemp

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

Italian Proverb

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

Paul Goodman

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

Paolo Friere

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

Meyer A Perlstein

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Henry Miller

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

Madeline Nold

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

Joseph Joubert

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

Jim Keene

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

Adrienne Rich

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

Ronnie Shakes