{"id":1718,"date":"2010-07-19T10:46:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T14:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ispeculate.wpmudev.host\/main\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2010-07-19T10:46:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T14:46:57","slug":"specific-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/07\/19\/specific-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"Specific Actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Church-based organizations do not try to solve problems. Problems will always be there, and we cannot afford to waste our energy fixing unending problems. We do, however, take specific actions on clearly defined issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>from \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamaliel.org\/Library\/congregationCenteredOrganizing.htm\">Congregation-Centered Organizing: A Strategy for Growing Stronger Communities<\/a> via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamaliel.org\/\">The Gamaliel Foundation an organizing institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here I think Mark I. Wegener is not correct. We cannot afford giving in to problems, and just continue to bring band-aid to the wounded. Community organizing is more then running around with first-aid kit, it most address the reason for the wounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church-based organizations do not try to solve problems. Problems will always be there, and we cannot afford to waste our energy fixing unending problems. We do, however, take specific actions on clearly defined issues. from \u00a0Congregation-Centered Organizing: A Strategy for Growing Stronger Communities via\u00a0The Gamaliel Foundation an organizing institute. Here I think Mark I. Wegener &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/07\/19\/specific-actions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Specific Actions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,89,97],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-deeds","tag-injustice","tag-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}