{"title":"John McKnight","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn McKnight\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful explorations into community building and social change, focusing on practical strategies to foster connection and resilience. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eAn Other Kingdom\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into the role of local networks and mutual support in shaping thriving, empowered communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful discussions rooted in education and social theory, with a keen emphasis on collaborative approaches to societal challenges. McKnight’s writing encourages reflection on how we engage with one another to create lasting, positive impact within our neighbourhoods and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"an-other-kingdom-by-walter-brueggemann-9781119194729","title":"An Other Kingdom","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur seduction into beliefs in competition, scarcity, and acquisition are producing too many casualties. We need to depart a kingdom that creates isolation, polarised debate, an exhausted planet, and violence that comes with the will to empire. The abbreviation of this empire is called a consumer culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe think the free market ideology that surrounds us is true and inevitable and represents progress. We are called to better adapt, be more agile, more lean, more schooled, more, more, more. Give it up. There is no such thing as customer satisfaction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe need a new narrative, a shift in our thinking and speaking. \u003ci\u003eAn Other Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e takes us out of a culture of addictive consumption into a place where life is ours to create together. This satisfying way depends upon a neighbourly covenant—an agreement that we together, will better raise our children, be healthy, be connected, be safe, and provide a livelihood. The neighbourly covenant has a different language than market-hype. It speaks instead in a sacred tongue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAuthors Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann, and John McKnight invite you on a journey of departure from our consumer market culture, with its constellations of empire and control. Discover an alternative set of beliefs that have the capacity to evoke a culture where poverty, violence, and shrinking well-being are not inevitable—a culture in which the social order produces enough for all. They ask you to consider this other kingdom. To participate in this modern exodus towards a modern community. To awaken its beginnings are all around us. \u003ci\u003eAn Other Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e outlines this journey to construct a future outside the systems world of solutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595684659436,"sku":"9781119194729","price":50.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781119194729-an-other-kingdom.jpg?v=1777901723"},{"product_id":"the-connected-community-by-john-mcknight-9781523002528","title":"The Connected Community","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFind out how to uncover the hidden talents, assets, and abilities in your neighbourhood and bring them together to create a vibrant and joyful community. It takes a village!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe may be living longer, but people are more socially isolated than ever before. As a result, we are hindered both mentally and physically, and many of us are looking for something concrete we can do to address problems like poverty, racism, and climate change. What if solutions could be found on your very doorstep or just two door knocks away?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCormac Russell is a veteran practitioner of asset-based community development (ABCD), which focuses on uncovering and leveraging the hidden resources, skills, and experience in our neighbourhoods. He and John McKnight, the co-originator of ABCD, show how anyone can discover this untapped potential and connect with their neighbours to create healthier, safer, greener, more prosperous, and welcoming communities. They offer a wealth of illustrative examples from around the world that will inspire you to explore your own community and discover its hidden treasures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou will learn to take action on what you already deeply know—that neighbourliness is not just a nice-to-have personal characteristic but essential to living a fruitful life and a powerful amplifier of community change and renewal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48147884474604,"sku":"9781523002528","price":64.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781523002528-the-connected-community.jpg?v=1786452490"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/john-mcknight.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}