This morning in Quaker Meeting a Friend told this story that gave me a little space to breath hope. My Friend grew up in the deep south of Arkansas. It was a small town then, with only 3 doctors – all white. When she was a child in the 1980’s she remembers the doctor’s offices… Continue reading Weaving peace by building infrastructure for it
Month: June 2020
Ozark Uplift Is Our Geological Grounding to Get Through This
https://www.facebook.com/groups/338007737189521 Northwest Arkansas sits on a big, ancient piece of rock called the Ozark Uplift. Our mountains are made of it. Right now we need that solid grounding more than ever as we breath our way through covid times. It’s not fun being a covid hotspot. Don’t be ashamed to admit it’s scary, because it’s… Continue reading Ozark Uplift Is Our Geological Grounding to Get Through This
The Social Contract Breached
Got some good response from a newsletter post last week, so I’m including it here to memorialize the death of George Floyd and those Black folks who died before him. And to emphasize the way authoritarian systems abuse their power to hold on to it. Violence has to be the default technique for problem solving.… Continue reading The Social Contract Breached
Networks and power: Baptists take over the South with a network strategy
Here’s an interesting example of a network strategy at work in history. It was identified by Jacob Huneycutt, an Arkansan studying history at the University of Arkansas. He reported his findings last year in this paper, “A Spirituall Kindome: The Importance of the Particular Baptists’ Transatlantic Network of Voluntary Interdependence and Cooperation to the Success… Continue reading Networks and power: Baptists take over the South with a network strategy