Glad to be here
I thought to myself: If we must live through this ordeal (and indeed, we must), this is the community I want to be a part of.
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A checklist for all of us
I keep a sticky note on my computer monitor with my personal checklist. It’s a reminder, especially when I am stressed or overwhelmed, to go through my checklist, take stock of these dimensions of myself, and to devote attention and care to all of these capacities. This is more than self-care, it is self-equipping.
COVID-19 calls on our better angels
I’m not an expert on viruses, but I do have a lifetime of experience in public health. Public health is about the health of all of us, as a community. Public health does not deny our innate need to attend to our own safety and survival, but it also calls us to do more than that: to act on behalf of the common good.
Pondering Hispanic Heritage Month, Latinx and borders
Coming to Goshen College has helped me to realize how much I have to learn from the Latino community here.
What’s so important about community anyways? A lot.
What one word is present in our mission, our vision and our core values statement? It is the word community. Here are three compelling voices on community, and why it matters so much to us.