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The Joy of Community

By Context Institute — 1991

According to psychiatrist and author M. Scott Peck, for any group to achieve community in the truest sense, it must undertake a journey that involves four stages: "pseudocommunity," where niceness reigns; "chaos," when the emotional skeletons crawl out of the closet; "emptiness," a time of quiet and transition; and finally, true community, marked both by deep honesty and deep caring. - Alan AtKisson

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The Compassion Project: A Case for Hope and Humankindness from the Town that Beat Loneliness

Frome in Somerset, UK, has seen a dramatic fall in emergency hospital admissions since it began a collective project to combat isolation.

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Julian Abel, Lindsay Clarke
2020
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Social Justice Isn't What You Think It Is

What is social justice? For Friedrich Hayek, it was a mirage—a meaningless, ideological, incoherent, vacuous cliché. He believed the term should be avoided, abandoned, and allowed to die a natural death.

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Michael Novak, Paul Adams
2025
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The Antidote

Made in response to the times we are living in, THE ANTIDOTE is a feature documentary that weaves together stories of kindness, decency, and the power of community in America. It's about ...

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2020
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Ethics

From one of the most important theologians of the twentieth century, Ethics is the seminal reinterpretation of the role of Christianity in the modern, secularized world. The Christian does not live in a vacuum, says the author, but in a world of government, politics, labor, and marriage.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1995
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There’s a widespread belief that if you have solid self-esteem you don’t need outside affirmation and praise. This is patently untrue, by the way.

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Harriet Lerner
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This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.

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Steven Johnson
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Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

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Harriet Lerner
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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Be the peace you wish to see in the world.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

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C. S. Lewis
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Community Transformation and Healing