Justice and Peace Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/category/justice-and-peace/ Cultivating creativity, wisdom, and virtue in education, entrepreneurship, and soul care. Thu, 11 Aug 2022 00:33:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/doingwhatmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/house-tree-512od.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Justice and Peace Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/category/justice-and-peace/ 32 32 89931359 Peacemaking and Mending Breaches https://doingwhatmatters.com/remembering-what-matters/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/remembering-what-matters/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2020 21:33:32 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=4072 Remembering Things that Matter I rarely post anything about current events, but once in awhile, it happens. I’ve been thinking about peacemaking, mending breaches, and restoring what has been broken. For issues that have existed for years or decades or...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/remembering-what-matters/feed/ 1 4072 Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Art of Historical Fiction https://doingwhatmatters.com/laura-ingalls-wilder-and-the-art-of-historical-fiction/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/laura-ingalls-wilder-and-the-art-of-historical-fiction/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2018 01:24:52 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3627 The Laura Ingalls Wilder Award was recently renamed the Children’s Literature Legacy Award, a remarkably generic name for such a prestigious award. A lot has been said about the change, and most that I have seen has been negative, with reactions...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/laura-ingalls-wilder-and-the-art-of-historical-fiction/feed/ 2 3627 Virtue, Education, and the Electorate https://doingwhatmatters.com/virtue-education-and-the-electorate/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/virtue-education-and-the-electorate/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2016 21:46:32 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=2787 An orderly line of voters snaked halfway around the parking lot at the polling place this morning. The crowd courteously made way for seniors with canes, wheelchairs, or walkers, with quiet thanks to those who sported evidence of military service. My...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/virtue-education-and-the-electorate/feed/ 1 2787 How Then Shall We Live? https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-then-shall-live/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-then-shall-live/#respond Tue, 29 Oct 2013 10:17:26 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=530 Some of the ideas in the last post’s video seem reminiscent of classical Christian ideas of how believers should live in the world. These Christian ideas are drawn from the whole of scripture and tradition, but the best known source...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-then-shall-live/feed/ 0 530 Moving Away from an Industrial Economy https://doingwhatmatters.com/moving-away-from-industrial-economy/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/moving-away-from-industrial-economy/#respond Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:00:07 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=522 Have you ever been inside Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater? This architectural gem offers contrasting spaces that feel spacious yet intimate. Its beauty and fame lies not in the fact that it’s an enormous, costly monstrosity  that dominates its site, but...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/moving-away-from-industrial-economy/feed/ 0 522 How About a Plenitude Resolution for the New Year? https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-about-a-plenitude-resolution-for-the-new-year/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-about-a-plenitude-resolution-for-the-new-year/#respond Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:03:54 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=376 Although entrepreneurship and micro-business have traditionally been seen as paths to wealth, the Doing What Matters business model is intended to lead toward a simpler, richer life. In the graphically illustrated five-minute video below, Plenitude author Juliet Schor discusses how to create a human-scale “plenitude economy” with...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-about-a-plenitude-resolution-for-the-new-year/feed/ 0 376 Can Changing Your Thoughts Change Your Life? https://doingwhatmatters.com/can-changing-your-thoughts-change-your-life/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/can-changing-your-thoughts-change-your-life/#respond Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:02:23 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=257 Remember the schoolyard taunt, “What you say is what you are!”? It usually followed a mature exchange of insults, often beginning with “cooties,” and progressing through booger-possession to “You’re just dumb!” Thankfully, the recess bell usually intervened in time to...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/can-changing-your-thoughts-change-your-life/feed/ 0 257 Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi as a Labor Day Meditation https://doingwhatmatters.com/prayer-of-francis-of-assisi-as-a-labor-day-meditation/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/prayer-of-francis-of-assisi-as-a-labor-day-meditation/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:17:09 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=451 Today is Labor Day in this part of the world, and I wanted to share this song from a prayer by St. Francis of Assisi as a meditation on the attitudes that can make labor beautiful. Whether you work in...

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