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Civic Renaissance is a community of co-creators. We are recovering the wisdom of the past and deploying it to answer the defining question of our age: how do we flourish across difference? We are building a Civic Renaissance--starting with ourselves.
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The Time I Was Accused of Being in the Pocket of Big Gas (Station) (opens the original)
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Gracious reader, Good morning! I am up early, about to catch a flight to Colorado Springs, and I’m going to tell you a story today about the time I got hate mail accusing me of being in the pocket of Big Buc-ee’s.What is Buc-ee’s, you ask? It is a massive gas station, a Texas export, beloved in Texas, and I would go so far as to say it has something of a cult following. This is what I’ve heard from ardent supporters, not just in Texas but around the country. People are really passionate about th
A wonderful problem in Iowa (opens the original)
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Gracious reader,I write with two invitations and two stories. We have a wonderful problem in Iowa: too many people want to come talk about civility.Next Tuesday, I’m headed to Urbandale, Iowa, for an experiment a year in the making. After that, I head to St. Ambrose University. I hope you can join me for both.In Urbandale, were originally supposed to gather at the local library, in a room that holds fewer than 100 people. But the RSVPs kept coming, so many that the city has now moved us to Urban
What Three Years in the Wild Taught Me About The Soul of Civility (opens the original)
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Gracious reader,I’m sharing with you some reporting from the front lines of the civic renaissance afoot in our country, this time from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial last Friday, August 28, an auspicious day in the perils, cost and promis of the human condtion for reasons I will share with you below.The below is also a first glimpse of something else I’ve been rather consumed with lately: the new anniversary paperback edition of *The Soul of Civility*, coming out this fall.I’m sharing it with
• What St. Augustine Knew About Being Human (opens the original)
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Gracious reader,Today we’ll explore:Exciting announcement: A 3rd-anniversary paperback edition of The Soul of Civility is coming!Who was St. Augustine, and why does he still matter nearly 1,600 years later?In Washington Today to Honor Dr. King’s Legacy, 63 Years After His “I Have a Dream” SpeechIntroducing The Great Conversation, Lived: What questions about civility and the good life do you wish I would answer?Happy birthday to The Soul of Civility!I have some exciting news: a new anniversary pa
Civility According to Blaise Pascal (opens the original)
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Gracious reader, Many of you know my admiration of Blaise Pascal, the French philosopher and polymath who offers us much insight into the human condition, defined by the greatness and wretchedness of man, and our penchant for dist
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