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, 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. 

• We reviewed some of the topics we’ve covered in the history of The Common Good Podcast.
• As long as it’s technically still Christmas when we released this episode, we take another look at Lee’s blog series, Unwrapping Christmas, and how the forgotten details of the New Testament birth narratives hold some gems for reawakening to the radical nature of Christmas, with the amazing ways it puts a challenge to structures of power and domination.
• We take a look at few examples of how JEM’s material has influenced our audience and readers’ lives and how that has in turn shaped our content, which should bear fruit in still untold ways. One great example is our 30 Days with JEM immersion guide. Follow that guide and in a short while you’ll be able to argue in favor of Jubilee Economics (both our org and the model we promote). It’s the perfect way to gird up against the tired statement, “yeah, but the jubilee was never really practiced…”
• Occupy still has power to reshape the public dialog around justice and access to resources and all the other concerns. A site like WeAreThe99Percent illustrates the demand for an economics that works, arising from the grassroots.
• As the Occupy movement persists, the search for alternative economics is on, and Lee’s book/multimedia project and collaboration with Michael Johnson, The Eden We Can Choose, is arriving just on time. Lee talks about how he struggled to find hope in the years before Occupy, and offers that an alternative economics quite certainly has to be a spiritually rooted one if it is to succeed where Wall Street has failed.
• All that and some more news about JEM happenings, and a bit more about building up the interaction with listeners and readers.

Just a reminder that our feed has changed in the last couple months, so please use the following address and choose your manner of delivery: http://feeds.feedburner.com/thecommongoodpodcast.

JEM, The Common Good, and Reciprocity