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Jubilee Forum 1 – Rev. Damon Lynch III

Reverend Damon Lynch III welcomes us to New Prospect Baptist Church as the Village Well. He connects the biblical idea of Jubilee to our modern cultural struggles. He quotes extensively from the Randall Robinson book: The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks and narrates the story of a black male over the generations. He explores what this means for us today.

What Is TimeBanking?

Edgar Cahn is a social innovator and has created TimeBanking, a unique way of building community...

Dancing into Freedom

Peter Block discusses the need for vision and unity in the pursuit of an alternative economy....

Change Thoughts about Money … Change the World

Robert Thompson of leadersinsideout.com sits down with Tim Soerens and Kevin Jones, founders of the SOCAP (Social Capital Markets) Conference, to discuss money and how it is not working for us in a way that creates the kind of lives we should all be living.

SOURCE: leaderinsideout.com

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

Wilderness

Walter Brueggeman likens the Israelites’ difficult journey into the wilderness to modern believers’ journey toward a...

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

Bross’s paradox

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

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

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

Madeline Nold

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

Meyer A Perlstein

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

Paul Goodman

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Joseph Joubert

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

Leroy

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

Ronnie Shakes

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

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

Paolo Friere

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

Adrienne Rich

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

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

All consciousness begins with an act of disobedience.

Carl Jung

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