Public Justice
Charity and Justice: Asking Two Different Questions
An ethical inquiry into immediate care and shared responsibilities, using Christian sources and a hypothetical school-supply project to test both questions.
Faith, justice and our common life
Arguments worth weighing. Questions worth sharing. A place to think about the responsibilities of citizenship.
Decision
Public choices, considered carefully.
Deliberation
Conviction in conversation with difference.
Faith and Pluralism
Congregations as Community Partners: A Practical Covenant
A voluntary covenant for religious and nonreligious service partners, covering consent, shared leadership, resources, referrals, ownership, and a fair exit.
Foundations
The ideas and institutions beneath public life.
Institutions
What a Fair Complaint Process Looks Like
Follow a fictional venue access complaint from intake to review, with practical proposals for evidence, impartial decisions, remedies, and completed repairs.
Politics and Prose
Books and arguments for a wider view.
Books and Ideas
Read Civic Texts Without Surrendering Your Judgment
Use a civic classic and an invented tool-library proposal to separate claims, evidence, and judgment, with a precise annotation method for individual or group reading.
A longer conversation
Read new treatments of questions preserved in the historical archive, with links to the source records.
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Community Life
Shared Spaces and the Work of Belonging
A stewardship proposal for a shared reading room, with fair booking choices, practical rules, ways to resolve competing uses, and clear privacy boundaries.
Civic Practice
Make Community Meetings Easier to Enter
A practical meeting plan covering invitations, private access requests, budgets, participation choices, technical failures, and follow-up before decisions.
Public Justice
Charity and Justice: Asking Two Different Questions
An ethical inquiry into immediate care and shared responsibilities, using Christian sources and a hypothetical school-supply project to test both questions.
Institutions
What a Fair Complaint Process Looks Like
Follow a fictional venue access complaint from intake to review, with practical proposals for evidence, impartial decisions, remedies, and completed repairs.
Faith and Pluralism
Congregations as Community Partners: A Practical Covenant
A voluntary covenant for religious and nonreligious service partners, covering consent, shared leadership, resources, referrals, ownership, and a fair exit.
Books and Ideas
Read Civic Texts Without Surrendering Your Judgment
Use a civic classic and an invented tool-library proposal to separate claims, evidence, and judgment, with a precise annotation method for individual or group reading.