Between Faith and Doubt

Posted by on Sep 4, 2011 in Artistic Inspiration | Comments Off Recently, I have been examining one of my cherished practices – community engagement – from a position of doubt rather than certainty. As scholars and practitioners, we need to understand how community engagement operates through and within subversions. Only then can we truly understand its potential for social change. I am not arguing for a wholesale move to viewing community engagement or...
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A Fork in the Road

Posted by on Sep 4, 2011 in Artistic Inspiration | Comments Off We are the stories we tell. Growing up, I lived by the meta-narrative that social movements are made by heroic individuals – mythic characters that were blessed with the gift of a unique calling.  Spiritual autobiographies inspired and nourished me; the stories of Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, all seem endowed with a deeper sense of purpose than the average...
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