David Brooks & Peter Block: How to Know a Person

Описание: The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.  This episode is the Abundant Community Conversation from September 14 where Troy Bronsink (https://www.troybronsink.com/about) speaks with David Brooks (https://www.nytimes.com/column/david-...) and Peter Block (https://www.peterblock.com/about-cont...) about David’s new book, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...) . This event was produced in partnership with Designed Learning (https://designedlearning.com/) , Faith Matters Network (https://www.faithmattersnetwork.org/) , Abundant Community (https://www.abundantcommunity.com/) and Common Change (https://www.commonchange.com/) . These conversations happen on Zoom and they always contain poetry, small groups and an exploration of a particular theme.

The next conversation is on October 26 with Parker Palmer. You can register here. (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/abundant...)

The recited excerpts came from Reverend Ben McBride's book, Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging (http://www.benmcbride.com/the-book) . You can also check out our previous conversation with Ben here (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1735634/12...) .

Peter also has a new book coming out in November that you can pre-order now. It's called Activating the Common Good: Reclaiming Control of Our Collective Well-Being (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/boo...) .


This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. (https://commongood.cc/) Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live (https://bespokenlive.org/) & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation (https://www.commonchange.com/) .