A Common Humanity: Ritual, Religion, and Immigrant Advocacy in Tucson, Arizona, released recently by the University of Arizona Press.
We’ll have Q&A time after Lane presents a few themes and stories from his book. His continuing work on the great creativity and innovation happening on the borders, along with the border’s impacts in our region, will make for an interesting evening together.
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]]>Mothers and fathers everywhere are photographed similarly holding their newborn in adoration and quiet amazement at this new life now in their lives. Though these poses also hold a sense of the sacred, only Joseph, Mary, and Jesus are called “the holy family.”
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Get on the horn with JEM today!
Whether you have two hours a month or two days per week, volunteering with JEM can contribute to economic change and maybe increase your own understanding of a jubilee economy. Currently, volunteers multiply by 15 every dollar donated to JEM. Here are ten volunteer tasks you might consider helping out with.
]]>These slideshow are extensions to the podcast interview with Steve von Kolkow and Laurie Britton, the principal owner-partners at Virtuoso.
]]>INTERDEPENDENCE is a key reality of all of nature and the cosmos. Because a jubilee, one-Earth economy copies nature’s wisdom of how to make exchanges that mutually benefit all involved, interdependence is at the heart of it. That’s why jubilee likes the Declaration of Interdependence and its 9/12 annual celebration.
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Giant volunteer tomato plant bears fruit
Sometimes I think we waste too many words talking about Jubilee. It isn’t that they aren’t good words or well studied, well meant, and probably even useful. But once in a while, they fall flat in the face of a glimpse of the real thing.
My wife Kelli is holding a bowl of cherry tomatoes that are among the first such bowls yet to come for the summer. A few months ago, a determined little volunteer plant started shooting up near the compost igloo.
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