Safety within Reach
Peter Block: April 2024 “The impossible is the least that one can demand.” –James Baldwin...
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High School Student and Peter Block Discuss Life
What do you say to a sophomore in high school, who is interested in the illusion...
Jubilee Forum 4 – Professor Waleed El-Ansary
Jubilee Forum 4, December 3, 2015
Professor Waleed El-Ansary, Islamic Scholar and Xavier Professor of Islamic Studies, speaking from the perspective of the Koran and Islamic culture on debt and economics. This includes how the land and earnings were committed to the common good. This means there was no such thing as consumer debt. He also explains the close connection between art, production and the presence of God. There was never a separation between science, work and spiritual meaning.
Jubilee Forum 2 – Professor Adam Clark
Jubilee Forum 2, September 3, 2015
Commentary by Xavier theology Professor Adam Clark. Jubilee is about a shift in culture, consumer culture. This begins with an inward look. The earliest Christian communities were about sharing one’s possessions in meeting community needs.
Gar Alperovitz on Cooperative Economy: “I’ll bet my life on it!”
Gar Alperovitz was in Seattle for the annual meeting of the National Cooperative Business Association and...
Walter Brueggeman on Community Food Sharing
Walter Brueggeman discusses the ways communities can share food.
