Abundance: as generative of more abundance, good farming as the practice of, neighborly belief and meaning of, reclaiming the common good with, the right use of money and,
Achan
Addition
Adult baptism
Affliction: Bread of Affliction, often associated with fallibility
Agri-business scarcity practice
Alexander, Christopher
Aliveness: grief as having an element of, market ideology as the end of, qualities of wholeness and
Allen, Woody
Amish community
Anabaptists
Anielski, Mark
Arrien, Angeles
Associations
AT&T humanizing training
Autonomy: kickback from market ideology as fueled by, as organizing principle of free market culture
Axiom News
B
Bank of North Dakota
Baseball: baseball park marriages, the Sunday baseball tradition
Beatitudes (New Testament)
Bell, Rob
Bellah, Robert
Benchmarking practice
Bergoglio, Cardinal Jorge
BerkShares currency
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Marigold Hotel film)
Big-church growth movement
The Big Sort (Bishop)
Bishop, Bill
Block, Peter
The blue laws debate
Borsodi, Ralph
Bread of Affliction
British oppression. See Scotland
Broadway Ministry (Philadelphia)
“Broken person” (Scottish outcast)
Brown, Ellen Hodgson
Brueggemann, Walter: attendance at conference about justice, on being married in a ballpark, on friend's food stamp rant, working on program documenting movement toward exclusive communities
Buffet, Warren
Byrd, Robert C.
C
Cahn, Edgar
Cain
Capacity: the Amish's conscious approach to technology and its, digital solutions to increase, how convenience has displaced our
Carnegie, Andrew
Carson, Rachel
Catholic Church: the contemplative orders of the, seven sacraments of the
Cayley, David
Certainty: as pillar of free market consumer ideology, seeking predictability and safety through
Chan, Edgar
Change management
Charity: co-production that replaces, market culture mentality of
Children: isolated from the adults in a community, violent effects of mistrust of authority by
The Church: Anabaptists' belief in adult baptism, big-church growth movement of, the Catholic Church contemplative orders, the Eucharist of, Kairos Document of South African Churches against Apartheid, Last Supper tradition of, liturgy tradition of, Presbyterian churches celebrating their Scottish roots, problem with the “You are friends” statement by Jesus, seven sacraments of the Catholic Church
Churchill, Winston
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Civil Rights Movement
Class warfare: corporate interest in staying blind to the inequalities of, the cost of competition and underclass and, the distribution of wealth driving, schools as having moved to the frontline of the, violence as consequences of the empire and
Cleveland Foundation
Coffey, Michael
Commodification: embodied in food, fast food and supermarket, loss of the commons and creating relationships of
Common good: the desire for more leads to violation of, how abundance, mystery, fallibility, and grief help us reclaim the, a liturgy for the, privatization as overthrowing the
The commons: as alternative to the dominant market economy and reconstructing purpose, the ideology of individualism conflicting with, loss of memory in, market ideology as breakdown the culture and, Mennonites' Reba Place Fellowship example of, Neighborly Covenant as central to community
Community: aliveness of, the Amish, as constantly developing their own practices creating a memory of place, covenantal or distributive justice and distribution of wealth of the, documenting movement toward exclusive, holiness associated with building, how vernacular language sustains the covenant and keeps together a, liturgy and spirituality of a communal and neighborly, Mennonites' Reba Place Fellowship, mysteries within culture and spiritual life of every, neighborliness as welcoming strangers into the, Neighborly Covenant as central to the commons and, the shadow side of, spirit and meaning of the Cuernavaca community market, technology used to connect neighbors and, tracing over time the benefits of institutions to the, un-welcoming-ness of small, urbanization and the loss of
Community Connections group (Cleveland)
Competition: class warfare and the distribution of wealth, consequences of school-driven, free market belief in, how cooperative activities beat, scarcity constructing an economy of controlled quantities and, as trumping trust
Conboy, Edd
“Constant” currency initiative (1972)
Consumer market: believing in a consumption-driven economy and, believing in safety through economic growth of the, class warfare driven by the, disciplines of the, as the end of aliveness, loss of the local and communal memory in a, mobility and isolation outcomes of the, un-productive wealth of the, violence expression of the. See also Contract culture; Free market consumer ideology
Consumer market disciplines: competition and class, digital solutions, the meaning of money, predictability and control, speed and convenience, surplus
Contract culture: certainty and perfection value of, free market as core conviction of the, idea of needs, indifference to gifts and focus on autonomy by, institutional assumptions of the, memo commination of the, organized around systems, privatization value of, scarcity value of the. See also Consumer market; Culture; Free market consumer ideology
Control: consumer market need for predictability and, wishing for safety and believing in growth and
Convenience: consumer ideology on relationship of speed and, how it displaces capacity, neighborly discipline of time in place of speed and, technological support of speed and
Co-operative food movement
Cooperative movement: as alternative to productivity, the power of the
Corporations: the corporation of schools supporting, illusion of reforms by, interest in staying blind to social and economic inequality
Covenant: Cain's break with God's, as the expression of mystery, God stands as someone who would make a, how vernacular language keeps a community together and sustains, Judaism Shema (“Hear”) to be a listening people and faithful to the, the neighborly culture as based on relatedness and, retributive justice and, to see the gifts of the widow and orphan, traditionally with God or a high power, as a vow of freedom and faithfulness, wilderness as the Old Testament metaphor for social order of the. See also Neighborly Covenant
Crime-making justice systems
Culture: customs celebrating the resistance against the mother, description and function of, how food expresses a, as manifesting a way of being, market ideology as breakdown the commons and, the shadow side of, vernacular language importance to. See also Contract culture
Currency: BerkShares, “Constant,” counterfeiting of Federal. See also Money
Cynicism about future
D
Davis, Walter T., Jr.
Death-defying wealthy man
Debt: belief in a consumption-driven economy and, Deuteronomy 15 on Jubilee Year release from
Denial
Developmentally disabled people movement
Día de los Muertos
Diet industry fraud
Dirksen, Everett
Distributive justice
Domino's Pizza
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Dow Jones Industrial Average
E
The Economics of Happiness (Anielski)
Ellul, Jacques
The empire: the co-operative movement as alternative to, forsaking the vernacular language for the language of the, illusion of reform in the context of, market control through the language of, resisting the, schools as the center of the strength of, violence as expression of the market culture and
Enclosure: the commons as stance for life and reversing, driving the Scots off the land to be replaced with sheep, fear as driving us to gather in tribal, how it drove people off the land and toward urbanization, as violation of community by the British
Environmental Movement
Episcopal House of Bishops
The Eucharist
F
Faithfulness and freedom covenant
Fallibility: failing to be God, grief due to reality of, neighborliness based on the knowledge of, parallels between mystery and, reclaiming the common good with
Family dinner ritual
Fast food commodification
Feast of San Gennaro
Fed Up (documentary)
Federal Reserve
The Feminine Mystique (Friedan)
Food: Christian Last Supper tradition of, the co-operative food movement, culture expressed through, Jewish Passover Seder tradition of, ritual of the family dinner and soul food made by mother, sacred occasion of sharing and consuming, as sacred re-performance, social order signpost of
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Food stamps rant
Free market consumer ideology: consumer market disciplines of the, as the end of aliveness, fast food and supermarket process food as foundational to, the four pillars of the, free market as core conviction of the, institutional assumptions of the, memo communication of the, monopoly as the unstated intention of, the myth of individualism in, neighborliness as alternative social order to, reliance on the idea of needs satisfied by buying and selling, the shrinking middle class as one consequence of the, on the “underserving” vulnerable. See also Consumer market; Contract culture
Generosity: the economy of a non-monetized, how monopoly and scarcity creates a context without, TimeBanking developing a measure for
Genuine Well-Being Index
George VI, King
Gettysburg Address
Gifts: contract culture vs. neighborly culture focus on, covenant to see the vulnerable and their, Mennonites' Reba Place Fellowship and their teachables
God: belief that kings and right to rule were commissioned by, Cain's broken covenant with, failing to be, Hebrew Bible's presentation as a mystery who comes with a narrative, neighborly covenant and mystery providing a place for, risk of public or civic space conversations about, as someone who would make a Covenant, Tree of Knowledge on the Holy Mystery of
Golding, William
Good questions
Gregorian calendar
Gregory, Pope
Grief: as element of fallibility, reclaiming the common good with
Gross Domestic Product
H
“Habits of the heart,”
Hallet, Stan
Hand of God speech (King George VI)
Haskins, Minnie Louise
Hezekiah, King
Holiday Inn
Holiness
Hopi Indians (Black Mesa area)
Huzekiah, King
I
Illich, Ivan: on Antonio Nebrija's Castilian language request, on institutions as being counter-productive, The Right to Useful Unemployment by, Shadow Work by, Tools for Conviviality by, on transforming experience of grief, on “vernacular” social life
Illusion of reform
Inchausti, Robert
Individualism: the commons as conflicting with the ideology of, contrasting between Sweden's commons approach and U.S., the myth of
Infant baptism
Institutional assumptions: better management/technology is the fix, competition trumps trust, interpersonal is a problem
Institutions: assumptions of the, Ivan Illich on tracing the community benefits received from, as structure of preference by the contract culture
Isabella (queen of Spain)
Isai
Isaiah
Israelites: Bread of Affliction (bread of Pharaoh), Judaism Shema (“Hear”) to be a listening people, in the wilderness, wishing for safety while in the wilderness. See also Old Testament
J
Jesus: healing lepers, introducing the Last Supper to his disciples, the problem the Church has had with the “You are friends” statement of
Joshua
Jubilee Year
Junior Achievement program
Justice: as beginning with a vow to freedom and fidelity, covenantal or distributive, Covenant and retributive, relationship between mystery and, young Evangelical Christians attending a conference about
K
Kairos,
Kairos Document (South African Churches)
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
“Kitsch” religion
Kohn, Alfie
Kundera, Milan
L
Language: cultural importance of vernacular, English attempt to stamp out Gaelic to control Scotland, market control through the language of empire, Mother Tongue, Nebrija's request to Queen Isabella on the Castilian, predictability and control through Business Perspective
Last Supper tradition
Law of Release
Lawrence, Howard
Lenin, Vladimir
Leprosy healing stories
Lincoln, Abraham
Lincoln at Gettysburg: Words That Remade America (Wills)
Listening: Judaism Shema (“Hear”) call to, the Quakers' use of time and, understanding the value of
Liturgy: the Church tradition of, for the common good, description of, holding the prophecy over time, the re-performance power of, story as re-performance and
Lord of the Flies (Golding)
Love
Love Wins (Bell)
Luddites
Lyons, Arthur
M
McKnight, John: on developmentally disabled son mediating father to God, on grieving what you cannot change, on No Contest: The Case Against Competition on power of cooperation, “On the Incredible Possibilities of Failing to Be God” hypothetical essay title by, spirit and meaning of the Cuernavaca community market, State Street Theater sit-in (1949) participation by
Mailliard, Ward
Management: change, institutional belief in solutions through better, the Mother Tongue in the language of
Mardi Gras
Marigold Hotel (film)
Market ideology. See Free market consumer ideology
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Mayan foodway
The Meaning of the City (Ellul)
Meaningful life
Mechanization
Mediterranean diet
Memo communication
Memory: the common as loss of, community practices that create a place of, consumer market as loss of local and communal, as a narrative in a place generating prophecy, story as liturgy and re-performance
Mennonites' Reba Place Fellowship
Mobility: consumer market outcome of, as modern vehicle for encouraging exclusive communities
Money: abundance and the right use of, examining the meaning of, how love of profit corrupts, Junior Achievement program's purpose to teach students about, making money on, mechanization and urbanization of, our affection for place and, student loans crisis, time as. See also Currency; Wealth
Monopoly: creating a context without generosity, as free market consumer intention
Mother Tongue language
Muste, Reverend A. J.
Mystery: as creating a space for surprise, as embodiment of spiritual life, holiness, how technology has eradicated, as opening the door to a neighborhood organized by covenant, parallels between fallibility and, providing a place for God, reclaiming the common good with, relationship between justice and, silence as a companion of listening and, wilderness, the work of
The myth of individualism
N
National People's Action
Navajo tribe
Nebrija, Antonio
Neighborhood: customs celebrating the resistance against the mother culture and keeping alive the, the modern disappearance of the, technology used to connect community and
Neighborliness: as alternative social order to market ideology, a cooperative movement constructing practices of, the disciplines of, found in the Old Testament wilderness, liturgy for the common good and, moving toward, off-modern possibilities of, welcoming strangers into the community. See also Personal relationships
Neighborliness disciplines: food as a, introduction to the, silence as a, time as a
Neighborly beliefs: abundance, the common good, fallibility, mystery
Neighborly Covenant: as central to the commons and community, description and implications of, neighborly beliefs of the, supporting neighborly disciplines. See also Covenant
Neighborly culture: based on covenant and relatedness, benefits of moving toward a, focus on possessions as having been a gift, liturgy and spirituality of a communal, privatization as overthrowing the common good and
New Testament: the Beatitudes of the, Ecclesiastes on time for all seasons idea, Kairos concept in the, off-market Moses movement in the
New Testament
Matthew
Luke
Acts
Romans
I Corinthians
See also Old Testament
Nextdoor.com
Nimrod (the first city)
No Contest: The Case Against Competition (Kohn)
Northern vs. southern Italian economy
O
Obesity
O'Brien, Tom
Off-modern possibilities
Old Testament: on Jubilee Year release from debt, neighborliness found in the wilderness of, off-market Moses movement in the, Ten Commandments of the, Tree of Knowledge in the, wilderness as the metaphor for social order of the covenant in. See also Israelites
Old Testament
Leviticus
Deuteronomy
Psalms
Proverbs
Isaiah
Jeremiah
See also New Testament
Outsiders: Scottish “broken person” outcast or, un-welcoming-ness of small community to
P
Paley, William
Paper, Lewis J.
Parochialism
Passover Seder, Paul, Apostle
Pax Britannica
Perfection: “failure is not an option” belief of, as pillar of free market consumer ideology
Personal relationships: assumed to be an institutional “problem,” loss of the commons and loss of un-commodified friendship and, neighborly culture based on covenant and. See also Neighborliness
Pharaoh's reach: Israelites going into the wilderness to be beyond, modern analog of being
Place: community practices that create a memory of, of local economy and businesses
Poverty: anger against food stamps and those “poor people” in, duty to protect the vulnerable and those in, market ideology on the “undeserving” state of, the meaning and implications of. See also Wealth
Predictability: believing in growth and wishing for safety and, consumer market need for control and, how language supports control and. See also Uncertainty
Privatization: the co-operative movement as alternative to, as overthrowing the common good, as pillar of free market consumer ideology
Productivity: abundance of gifts related to, cooperative movement as the alternative to, Ivan Illich on institutions as being counter-productivity, to listen as a retreat from, observance of Sabbath as protest against
Prophecy: liturgy as holding prophecy over time, memory as a narrative in a place generates
Pula, Peter
Putnam, Robert D.
Q
The Quakers
“Quality of aliveness,”
Questions and silence
R
Reba Place Fellowship
Reform: as illusion in the context of empire and scarcity, transformation required for genuine
Relationships. See Personal relationships
Religion: “kitsch” (religion that doesn't tell all the truth), mandra on spirituality without
Re-performance: food as sacred, power of liturgy as, story as liturgy and
Retributive justice
The Right to Useful Unemployment (Illich)
Risk management
Rotary Clubs
Russell, Cormac
S
Sabbath: to listen as a form of, observance of the
Sacraments of silence
Scarcity: agri-business as practice of, constructing economy of controlled quantities and competition, creating a context without generosity, illusion of reform in the context of, as pillar of free market consumer ideology, violence as expression of class distinctions and
School-driven competition
Schools: class warfare driving by the corporation of, consequences of the competition driven by, illusion of reform of
Schumacher, E. E.
Scotland: “broken person” outcast in, enclosure driving the Scots off the land to be replaced with sheep, English attempt to stamp out Gaelic to control, Presbyterian churches celebrating their Scottish roots
Second World War
Seel, Douglas Larsen
Shadow Work (Illich)
Shema (“Hear”)
Sickness-making medical systems
Silence: as a companion of mystery and listening, sacraments of, social order signpost of
The Silent Spring (Carson)
Small Is Beautiful (Schumacher)
Social change movements: examples of triggers for historic, signs of change driving
Soul food of home
Southern vs. northern Italian economy
Speed: consumer market disciplines of convenience and, neighborly discipline of time in place of modern
Spirituality: mantra on spirituality without religion, mystery as embodiment of a life of
Standing in line time
State Street Theater sit-in (1949)
Stonewall riots (Greenwich Village)
Story: community built on the power of, the eleven creation stories of the Hope Indians, as liturgy and re-performance, wealthy man who hates death
Student loans
Sunday baseball tradition
Sunday closing laws
Super Bowl mentality
Supermarket commodification
Surplus: consumer market, we have come to identify ourselves by our privilege and
Swedish communal-minded culture
T
Technology: the Amish's conscious approach to, expanding its influence into community space and capacity, institutional belief in solutions through, luddite argument against, speed and convenience as selling points of, un-measured burden as the hidden cost of
Ten Commandments: Moses movement and the, the Tenth Commandment of the
Time: for all things, anti-system nature of, Ecclesiastes on time for all seasons idea of, how the Quakers use listening and, modern social construction of, money as, social order signpost of, standing in line
TimeBanking
Tools for Conviviality (Illich)
Torah: collision between our free market narrative and the, on obligation of the community to protect the vulnerable, the way of the
Trappist monks
Tree of Knowledge
Trust
U
Uber
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kundera)
Uncertainty: free market consumer culture as hating, how mystery creates a space for surprise and. See also Predictability
Underclass
Universities: class warfare driven by the corporation of, consequences of the competition driven by schools and
University of Kansas
Urban life: Cain's broken covenant and establishment of first city, loss of the community due to nature of
Usury as good business
V
Vernacular language
Violence: as expression of empire and class distinctions, of parentless children
Visitation Order of nuns
Vulnerable: anger against food stamps and those “poor people,” corporate interest in staying blind to the needs of the, covenant to see the gifts of the, duty to protect the, market ideology on the “undeserving” state of the, the U.S. population of the
W
Waiting lines
Way of the Torah
Wealth: class warfare's relationship to distribution of, consumer market's un-productive, covenantal or distributive justice and distribution of the community, the emotional and spiritual question of how to use. See also Money; Poverty
Wealthy man story
Wholeness
Wilderness: grief as communal practice recognizing making the choice of, the Israelites' wish for safety while in the, neighborliness in the Old Testament, neighborhood and neighborliness as unexplored modern, Old Testament metaphor of