Engaging the Marginalized
Jim Diers elaborates on what can happen in a local setting if absolutely everyone gets involved, including those who tend to be marginalized in the community.
Source: TalkShoe
Category Archives: Communal Restoration
Victim Involvement
Mike Butler elaborates on how restorative justice would change a criminal victim’s role in our society and in our system.
Source: TalkShoe
How Economy Serves Us
Economist Olivia Saunders discusses our need to create a new, abundance-based economy that serves us, and why scarcity economics eventually leads to violence.
Source: Thought Grenades
Certitude Versus Faithfulness
Our task is to interrupt the consumer market ideology, which a modern story of Pharaoh’s Egypt....
From Consumption to Community
Mobility, progress, even optimism are obstacles to community and real connection. Neighborliness, memory, place are the...
Self-Organizing Systems
Harrison Owen names the New York City food system as an example of a self-organizing system.
Discovering Open Space
Harrison Owen discusses the idea of Open Space and naturalistic sharing and discussion.
Uncredentialed Leader
Walter Brueggeman discusses the move from indebtedness to freedom, drawing upon the story of Elijah and...
Wilderness
Walter Brueggeman likens the Israelites’ difficult journey into the wilderness to modern believers’ journey toward a...
Into Slavery
Scarcity and food monopoly is at the center of slavery. Ancient and today. Walter opens our...
Food Monopoly
Joseph and Pharaoh were the original source of agribusiness. Reconstructing the production and distribution and purchase...
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...
Restorative Community
Peter Block and Walter Brueggemann discuss the toxic effects of privatization and overconsumption and call for...
5.1 Communal Perspective
What is needed for an alternative future is to shift the context away from business, empire,...
5.2 Current Dominant Narratives
In a word is a world and so reflecting on our language is critical to restoring...
5.3 The Five Core Disciplines
The imperial context and the business perspective have been ideologically reinforced, over time, through five disciplines,...
5.3.1 Economics
Economics now reinforces scarcity and self-interest. If something is not rare, it has no value
5.3.2 Faith/Theology
Faith celebrates patriarchy and one truth.
5.3.3 Art
Art accepts its marginalization, lives through galleries and philanthropy, and reinforces our attraction to the genius...
5.3.4 Journalism
Journalism takes its identity from exposing what is wrong with us.
Narrative of Scarcity
The Biblical source of the consumer mandate that what we have isn’t enough.
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5.3.5 Architecture
Architecture becomes a testimony to clean lines, minimalist aesthetics, and what is efficient and therefore uninhabitable. These...
