Covenant: Moving from Contract to Commitment, Invitation, Reader, Structure Of Belonging Community Care Restores Balance The hallmark of community care is that it is diffuse. No one has too much to do, but everyone has something. No one carries too much power, but everyone holds…
Covenant: Moving from Contract to Commitment, Invitation, Reader, Structure Of Belonging *We* by Ebony Kearney Ebony Kearney, a Kansas City poet and parent educator, began our recent Abundant Community Conversation with this original poem. Ebony offers the basic affirmation that a robust “we” is the…
Covenant: Moving from Contract to Commitment, Eliminating economic isolation, Reader, Wilderness: Sharing and Reorientation The Great American Heist Community Care is not only interpersonal, it is also structural. If you love your neighbor, even the ones across town that you don’t know, then you will want them to…
Covenant: Moving from Contract to Commitment, Eliminating economic isolation, Leaving Egypt and Pharaoh, Reader Rebuilding Neighborhoods With Strength From Within: The Story of CIP Durham Communities in Partnership, in Durham, North Carolina, uses a “community-rooted” approach to its work that leverages community residents’ expertise and resources, as an alternative to “community-based” organizations that can marginalize community…
Covenant: Moving from Contract to Commitment, Imagination: The Prophetic Act of Living an Alternative Narrative, Reader, Significance Of Place Earth Is Warning Us We Must Change. Will We Listen? by David Korten Our present course puts humans on track to be among the species that expire in Earth’s ongoing sixth mass extinction. In my conversations with thoughtful people, I am finding increasing…
