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The July-August issue of Wiley Online Library's "About Campus" featured Peter's interview with executive editor Frank Shushok, Jr. in which he talked about how he began his work in helping people develop, nurture and sustain community, the genesis of...

Priscilla Corcoran Mooney was just 30 years old when she became her town’s mayor. A community of approximately 250 people on the Cape Shore of Newfoundland, Canada, the Town of Branch knows how to focus on their assets and...

How can we help people to live a good life? Instead of trying to right what's wrong within a community, Cormac argues we need to start with what's strong. We need to help people discover what gifts they have...

Howard Lawrence, the go-to-and-get-it-done guy when it comes to fixing neighbourhoods, reflects on his own way of connecting. When he is at home feeling isolated, he heads outside to see who is working on projects — fixing or building — and...

  Tamarack's March 23, 2016 webinar on the Abundant Community Edmonton initiative featured Howard Lawrence and Anne Harvey from the City of Edmonton, the innovators and activators of this unique neighbourhood-building framework. They were joined by John and Peter, who...

John and Peter were joined in their conversation on March 8, 2018 by Walter Brueggemann, co-author of their recently released new book An Other Kingdom: Departing the Consumer Culture. Also joining them were special guests and friends Peter Pula and...

You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. — Matt. 16:3 The intent of An Other Kingdom is to interpret certain signs of the times. These signs have to do with...

Kettering Foundation president and CEO David Mathews explains how people and communities can get greater control over their collective future. One way to do this is to ask questions that will reveal new possibilities for acting together on shared...

An animated archetypal flood story that imagines how politics was first created. It counters the idea that public deliberation is some kind of new technique to be used on communities and encourages a notion of democracy that is citizen-centered.   The...

Excerpts and illustrations from For Communities to Work, by David Mathews, © the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, posted by permission. To download the complete work click here. Having spent studying communities, the Kettering Foundation, a nonpartisan research organization, has...