We often hear some commissioners talk a lot about community during their deliberations; perhaps hoping it will make them appear more human and approachable. I often wonder the extent to which they actually understand the meaning of the word. Fabian Pfortmüller, a Swiss social entrepreneur and community builder in NYC claims he’s been on a lifelong journey in an attempt […]

For centuries, people who called themselves Christian lived happily with slavery. We were discussing this extraordinary blind spot in a class I taught recently. How could people point to the Bible to support slavery for so long? And then, how could they change their minds, so that even those most thoughtless of the vulnerable poor today condemn slavery? My students […]