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Simpler OneEarth Living Podcast
A co-production of Simple Living Works! and The Common Good Podcast (Jubilee OneEarth Economics)
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SHOW NOTES
Working with people in poverty is central to spiritual practices, but how we do it challenges us all, poor and non-poor alike. When you see poverty in a neighborhood, whether it’s urban or rural, do you assume that the people living there just don’t have what it takes to improve their lives? Most cities develop a poor neighborhood by gentrifying it with lots of financial investment and new buildings. But that displaces the people and businesses who were there before. Where do they go? There’s also the argument that poor people simply have to help themselves; that aid takes away their incentive to improve their situation. What approach do you believe works best? Stay with us to hear an approach that really does change people as well as their situations.
What a treat it is for us in these podcast episodes to talk with people who really show that another world is possible. And that treat compounds, like compounding interest, because we get to share these conversations with listeners.
We kick off our 2021 podcasting with Grace Dyrness [DUR-ness] as our guest. Grace has been a great advocate for Jubilee in recent years. Lee first met her a decade ago while she was still at University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Since then, our friendship has grown and she’s visited the Jubilee Circles in San Mateo, Mexico, and San Cristobal, Mexico. She’ll tell us about that in this conversation.
She will also tell us a highly successful way to engage poverty. It’s a topic that makes many people throw up their hands in hopelessness. It’s also true that many nonprofits engage poverty through forms of relief that do not change either the people or their situation. Grace will tell us a different way—one that is also being practiced in the Jubilee Circles in San Mateo and San Cristobal.
You will find Grace at the website of HUB: Urban Initiatives — Urban-Initiatives.org.
Grace Roberts Dyrness is a community development consultant and professor. She has taught at the University of Southern California, Azusa Pacific University, and Fuller Theological Seminary, as well as institutions in Philippines, Indonesia and Kenya, with a focus on public service in an urban setting, social context of planning, community and transformational development, and sustainable tourism. Her approach has been to use advocacy planning and participatory approaches to engage people in communities in order to envision their own future and chart a path towards it.
She has a graduate degree in urban anthropology from the Ateneo (ah-ten-A-o) de Manila University and a doctorate in urban planning and development studies from the University of Southern California. Her doctoral work focused on the growth of the informal sector of the Los Angeles economy, particularly on a project with the city’s street vendors.
Grace has had many years of experience working in the nonprofit sector in developing nations and inner cities within the United States. For eight years she lived in Manila, Philippines, where she lived among urban squatter women in order to better understand how they cope with life at the margins.
For the past 20 years she has been engaged in participatory action research and development in Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Djibouti and Philippines. It has been through these international and local experiences that she has gained a deeper understanding of what conditions are needed in order for communities to thrive and forge a sustainable future for the next generation.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Though it’s January, a really good read is still Lee’s book “The Liberating Birth of Jesus: A Birth Story Able to Reverse the Earth’s Perils.” It clearly shows how the birth stories of the gospels can make a big difference in reversing what’s happening on our planet and to all of life. Read more here // Hear more here, and at TheOneEarthProject.com/books. Order a copy directly from Jubilee or from various suppliers on the internet. The first five orders Jubilee receives from listeners will be free. Just ask.
- In 2021, OneEarthJubilee will increase opportunities for meeting the people in the Jubilee Circles in Mexico and to create solidarity with them in their amazing work of empowering women, educating underserved peoples, and protecting the planet. Ask to be included in a Solidarity Call or plan to be part of courses in the new Jubilee School. You can find more information on the website oneearthjubilee.com.
Please tell us your thoughts on these subjects. Leave a message on Jubilee OneEarth Economics and/or Simple Living Works! Facebook pages.
Earlier Episodes
Ep. 1220: Will O’Brien: Peace on Earth and the Politics of Christmas. Much of what we assume about the birth of Jesus has to be unlearned if we are to get at how that birth posed a threat to empires and superpowers everywhere. Will O’Brien speaks to the politics and economic alternatives to empire that were announced in the birth stories of Jesus.
He’s able to take apart ideas presented to us by our culture, and find, instead, the nuggets of truth that subvert the cultural understanding. He continually shapes a discipleship in the way of Jesus that is daring in how it seeks justice in politics and economics. That’s what we’ll hear in this episode.
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Ep. 1120–How Empowering Women Changes the World. Women are being empowered toward fuller personhood through the work of Jubilee Circles. Women in Mexico are learning their rights instead of obeying patriarchal norms shaped by machismo. Some are being trained in the power of civic action and political candidacy. Others in economic self-reliance. These examples from Jubilee in Mexico relate to all of us, wherever you are listening. Hear strong real life stories told by Angelica and Lindsey.
Ep. 1020–Scott Klinger: Maximizing Justice Over Profits Is Possible
We can talk about legal barriers to a just world, and some concrete ways that listeners can invest their own assets, and ask questions of pots of money they influence, with their employers, with their churches, with their community foundations.
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Ep. 0920–So Much We Learn from Outsiders; Immigrant Advocacy. Lane Van Ham, author of Composite Nation: A History of Immigrant Advocacy in the U.S.
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Invitation to Sign OneEarth Jubilee Covenant for the 2020’s
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