Spirited Social Change

“I’ve grown impatient with the kind of debate we used to have about whether the optimists are right or the pessimists are right. Neither are right. There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.” – Donella Meadows These dark, holiday day can be a real […]

Download the notes in PDF form here. (Summary notes from discussion groups at the April 26th dialogue at Rhizome Café. Please excuse any mistakes in translating notes from written to typed form.) Topic 1: Yoga and White Privilege/Heteronormativity –       Yoga as a tool for increased awareness and Character Development –       Yoga cultivating emotional intelligence –       […]

By Christine Boyle, in the United Church Observer I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been to Sunday morning worship in the last year. But I am in conversations about church, faith, spirituality, purpose, wholeness and social change all the time. Most of my young life has been spent stumbling between […]

From Rabble.ca Nine self-care reminders for the over-committed activist By Christine Boyle | January 9, 2013 Change the conversation, support rabble.ca today. At the beginning of every year, I resolve to floss my teeth more regularly. But with two jobs, a family, and a near-constant feeling of urgency about a myriad of social and environmental issues, my […]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the in-between space, the space that isn’t quite one thing, and isn’t quite another. Maybe it’s this murky fall weather. Maybe it’s the work of figuring out how to describe and develop this project of Spirited Social Change, which is in-between and not-quite a whole bunch of things. […]

This week’s episode of the CBC’s Tapestry was focused on busy-ness. As 20th century Anglo-American Catholic writer Thomas Merton says: “There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence, and that is activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of this innate violence. To allow […]