Category: About Citizen Advocacy
A Culture of Caring…
A few months ago we started wondering if we might be able to spark relationship building and solidarity by mailing the following letter to good solid Savannah people. One letter per week, 52 weeks a year. Play that out by 10 years, then 100 years… Dear Michelle, I hope this finds you well. I am sending this letter
» Read morePastors and Possibilities…
I recently attended the Florida Winter Pastor’s School at Stetson University in Deland, Florida to hear farmer and author Wendell Berry. My friend the Reverend Enoch Hendry of Trinity United Methodist Church in Savannah invited me to attend, reminding me that I introduced him to Berry’s writing more than 25 years ago. There were about 200 pastors in attendance from
» Read moreWould you be willing to knock at the door???
“Men and women have shaved heads and are lying on the floor. It’s just like the pictures you see of the institutions in the 1950s.” Ashley and I spent a Thursday and Friday in Athens with citizen advocacy coordinators from around Georgia. We all get together four or five times a year for what we call “Think and Drink.”
» Read morePublic Relations and Reality…
I was visiting a website the other day and began thinking about the difference between public relations and reality. Public relations is the business of managing information to create a set of ideas in the minds of other people. It can be done in many ways. Television, YouTube, newspapers, newsletters, blogs, Facebook and Twitter are all media-based public relations
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