Blogs

10 Apr 2012

This Land Is My Land

View on Abundant Community website Related: Dufferin Grove Park: The Bake Ovens Building Community with Portable Brick Ovens Wood-fired Communal…

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Blogs

31 Jan 2012

Fallibility: The Value of Imperfection

The capacities of an abundant community are the core elements that need to be visible and manifest to create functional…

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Blogs

30 Dec 2011

Resolving to Rediscover Entertainment in the New Year

The American Academy of Pediatrics recently released a report urging that children under age two not be allowed to watch…

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Blogs

06 Dec 2011

How to Teach Children to Lose by Winning

In his brilliant book No Contest: The Case against Competition, author Alfie Kohn defines competition as the process by which for me to win,…

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Blogs

10 Oct 2011

How to Reduce the National Debt by 30 Trillion Dollars

Anthropologists remind us that the manifestations of a community’s culture are its food, language, arts, and faith. These are the…

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Blogs

22 Sep 2011

Lifting the Burdens of Parenting

For many people, “parenting” is a word describing a burden. Usually, they’re correct because they’re carrying an unprecedented load, heaped…

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Blogs

16 Aug 2011

Why Families Fall Apart

One day, when my mother was in her 70’s, she told me a story about how things had changed in…

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Blogs

07 Jul 2011

It Takes A Village to Educate a Child

Throughout the United States, local school districts are cutting back on teachers and curriculum while increasing class size.  With our…

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Blogs

23 Jun 2011

Enterprising Economy

The community is the natural nest for hatching new enterprise — it is the birthplace and home of small business,…

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Blogs

15 Jun 2011

Support Community-Building Clergy

A convivial friend, Dan Grego, says that the future of our country depends upon whether we can learn how to…

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Blogs

09 Jun 2011

5 Questions to Awaken Your Functional Family

The path to restoring function to the family in a citizen society, not a consumer society, is quite simple. It begins…

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Blogs

08 Jun 2011

The Good Life? It’s Close to Home

When family members do not work or live well together we sometimes call the family dysfunctional. We prescribe professional help…

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Blogs

09 May 2011

The Therapeutic Neighborhood

If you have a deeply troubling personal problem, where do you turn?  To a cleric? A psychologist? A counselor? A…

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Blogs

25 Apr 2011

Escaping the World of Non-sense

We are slowly surrounding our lives with electrical “inputs” called Internet, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, TV, etc.  As a result, many…

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Discussions

25 Apr 2011

Our Abundant Communities

Walter Brueggemann explores themes of power and patriarchy; human fallibility and gifts; and accumulation and abundance in building and sustaining…

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Blogs

04 Apr 2011

How Much Harm Do Social Services Do?

A few weeks ago, I received this email from Dan Oliver of Cleveland, Ohio, asking my thoughts on the role…

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Blogs

23 Mar 2011

The Neighborhood Plague

A plague has descended on many of our neighborhoods.  It is a plague intensified by recession, corporate drive for profit…

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Blogs

01 Mar 2011

Powering America

In a neighborhood, people are empowered by the work they do together.  Often, they use this power to confront institutions…

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Blogs

26 Jan 2011

President Obama’s Speech Forgets the Primary Educators

In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama once again urged parents to be active in supporting…

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Blogs

11 Jan 2011

Opening the Neighborhood Treasure Chest

Increasing numbers of Americans are neighborless. They are, in reality, little more than residents occupying a house in an anonymous…

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