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These Times Call For “Big Citizenship” – (Insight from the Book by Alan Khazei, Founder of City Year)

As I have written frequently, I live in (more than) a couple of different worlds.  I read, and present synopses of business books.  But I also speak monthly at the Urban Engagement Book Club for CitySquare.  I present synopses of books dealing with social justice, racism, poverty – issues of human need. Sometimes, I feel… Read More These Times Call For “Big Citizenship” – (Insight from the Book by Alan Khazei, Founder of City Year)

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Putting Our Minds to Finding Work Solutions for The Under-Skilled May Be the Most Patriotic Thing We Can Do

For practically every family, the ingredients of poverty are part financial and part psychological, part personal and part societal, part past and part present.  Every problem magnifies the impact of the others, and all are so tightly interlocked that one reversal can produce a chain reaction with results far distant from the original cause. If… Read More Putting Our Minds to Finding Work Solutions for The Under-Skilled May Be the Most Patriotic Thing We Can Do

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Doing Nothing is a Really Bad Option – Half the Sky, and The Moral Challenge of This Century

It appears that more girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they were girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century. More girls are killed in this routine “gendercide” in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century. Nicholas… Read More Doing Nothing is a Really Bad Option – Half the Sky, and The Moral Challenge of This Century

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We Can’t Do Everything At Once. Literally, We Cannot Do Everything At Once – (insight prompted by Michele Alexander, The New Jim Crow)

We can’t do everything at once.  Literally, we cannot do everything at once.  And so, a lot that needs to be paid attention to; a lot that needs to get done; a lot that is important, maybe crucial; is simply never dealt with.  And the advocates of such concerns speak, and write, and yell, and… Read More We Can’t Do Everything At Once. Literally, We Cannot Do Everything At Once – (insight prompted by Michele Alexander, The New Jim Crow)

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Thoughts About Change From A Book About Racial, Ethnic, And Class Tensions

For the Urban Engagement Book Club for Central Dallas Ministries tomorrow, I am presenting my synopsis of There Goes the Neighborhood:  Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America by William Julius Wilson and Richard P. Taub.  At this book club, we focus on books related to social justice… Read More Thoughts About Change From A Book About Racial, Ethnic, And Class Tensions

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What is a normal life? – Push By Sapphire (The Book Which Prompted The Movie Precious); A Reflection

As I have written often, I live in multiple worlds.  Today for the Urban Engagement Book Club, sponsored by Central Dallas Ministries, I presented  my synopsis of Push by Sapphire. It was the toughest book to read – maybe the toughest I’ve ever read!  In this book-based gathering, we look at books that raise our… Read More What is a normal life? – Push By Sapphire (The Book Which Prompted The Movie Precious); A Reflection

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