Episode 25 :: Shifting to a Paradigm of Service

Deb Mitchell was quite like millions of her time and place, comfortable in a middle class life with a good job at a major corporation. Without meaning to, she held advantage that she didn’t even know she had over others. Eventually as her world grew larger than her Midwestern roots reached, Deb became more and more attuned to the dimension of life that had gone unnoticed for so long. Thanks to international travel and a changing corporate landscape, Deb was forced to look at things in a whole new way.

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Episode 24 :: Jubilee Economics for the Uninitiated

Okay, we have to admit it. Jubilee Economics Ministries has a big idea that not everyone gets. When you’re trying (like we are) to take on a world class issue that encompasses a vast swath of history and attempts to deal with the microcosmic and macrocosmic concepts of economics, it gets a little hard to follow. It’s a big job trying to get the world to think another way, and while we’ve done a range of things and employed various media, sometimes we miss the forest for the trees, and things take a bit more explanation why things are how they are with JEM.

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Episode 23 :: Challenges in Socially Responsible Investing

Updated on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 2:16PM by Jan Schalkwijk, CFA

Jan Schalkwijk is a financial advisor with a specialty in targeting investment options for people who are looking at more than just the “old” bottom line of profits alone. Jan was introduced a year ago on Episode 11, but this time around we get into some more aspects of Socially Responsible Investing, of which Jan’s “green” focus is a component. Jan is approached by Lee who presents himself as a potential client with questions about green investing, community investment options, and how the limits to growth are changing the game of investment strategy.

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Episode 22 :: A Common Humanity

Lane Van Ham is our featured guest for this episode. (Okay, you figured it out. He’s related to Lee just like Lauren from episode 16 is. We’re a small organization!) Apparent nepotism not withstanding (no one is geting paid, ahem!), Lane’s new book, A Common Humanity: Ritual, Religion and Immigrant Advocacy in Tucson, Arizona (University of Arizona Press) just came out and stands fine on its own. Having done his graduate studies in the field of immigrant advocacy, this book emerged from that experience.

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Episode 21 :: JEM, The Common Good, and Reciprocity

Now that The Common Good Podcast has been going on for about a year and a half now, and now that a new year is starting, Lee and Ed reflect on how JEM has worked reciprocally to serve content and to be shaped by our guests and friends who have left their feedback for either the podcast or the blog. We’d like to see more of that happening and we encourage listeners and readers to comment and add input that we can use within our blog and podcast. 

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Episode 20 :: Faith Presence at the Occupy Movement

Lots of stuff in this episode because there is much to report on. We plan to diversify content within each episode so as to keep you abreast of things in JEM-land, to reflect on some notable news, and to build community among our listeners and readers. We’re starting to get the hang of this after all this time!

First off, for those of you who are subscribers to this podcast, be apprised that you will need to RE-SUBSCRIBE using this new feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/thecommongoodpodcast

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Episode 19 :: When a House is More Than a House

Eventually the American Dream proves itself to be otherwise. For Sung and Myra Sohn, arriving in the States from their native Korea, what awaited them was getting established in architectural studies (Sung—quite a renaissance man) and starting a career in pharmacology (Myra) and then joining with the usual frantic and disjointed rhythms of American life. Eventually they found that life not to their liking as its demands took a toll on family identity and cohesion. Sung envisioned an alternative housing arrangement based on shared life and spiritual practice, not just for his own family but for other residents and guests.

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