Marc Mullinax returns to speak about scarcity and abundance. Our world is built on the thin fictions of scarcity. Advertising, religion, athletics, maybe even your boss grabs your attention by making you feel like there’s not enough to go around, that only one team or person wins, or there are not enough resources, or room […]
Marc Mullinax returns for a new angle on an old Christian theme. Using Wendell Berry’s phrasing (Practice Resurrection), we’ll discover/recover/uncover practices of hope in these apparently barren days, nearly halfway through President #45’s term. There are things that we can only see clearly when we are at the ends of our ropes. “Ya’ see,” Marc […]
The shock and awe of the past two months may have left us sliding up and down the grief mountains of Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. Marc Mullinax will offer us a sixth way: quiet, behind-the-scenes Resistance. By “going low” and “going dark” we will negotiate new, unexpected resources of energy, community, and creativity […]
We are gifted individuals… no doubt! Among those gifts are social organizing, passions for justice, and quiet courage. How can we amplify them? Consider ourselves individuals “tethered” together in groups. At what point does the group’s energy and power become a more obvious and welcome force for change? If we lie low, wait for others, expect the next Martin Luther […]
By the time we get to the age we are, we have had numerous reasons to lose, or re-evaluate, or dismiss hope, and even “fuggedaboutit” … Hope’s not worth it. “Been there, got let down, why return to Hope?” Marc Mullinax returns to address the practice of hope as an essential human and core spiritual practice. Hope is more than […]