Reader, Significance Of Place, Wilderness: Sharing and Reorientation The Indigenous Future of Land Conservation While our largest institutions remain locked in a battle over how, and even whether, to work on climate and environmental issues, they miss the best source of wisdom for how…
Reader, Significance Of Place, Wilderness: Sharing and Reorientation Evaluating Healthcare Fault Lines in Florida In Miami, a broad coalition of neighborhood organizations, churches, and the University of Miami Law School has developed to protect at-risk communities during COVID-19. Using data, community organizing, and public…
Poetry for Building Community, Reader, Significance Of Place “The Peace of Wild Things” Wendell Berry has long been a light for those seeking to understand themselves as a part of the materiality of creation. This classic poem finds Berry seeking solace among wildness.…
Imagination: The Prophetic Act of Living an Alternative Narrative, Reader, Significance Of Place, The Abundant Community The Neighborhood as a Sacred Place In this recent talk, John McKnight draws on both Biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann and comedian Dave Chappelle to talk about the neighborhood as a sacred space. Sacred spaces do not…
Imagination: The Prophetic Act of Living an Alternative Narrative, Significance Of Place, The Abundant Community Rasquachification, Race and the City Rasquache: a Chicano aesthetic with an “attitude rooted in resourcefulness and adaptability yet mindful of stance and style. Cultural activist Roberto Bedoya celebrates Rasquache as an act of placekeeping rather…
