Transforming Welfare
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By offering private alternatives to the failed welfare state, this collection of essays hopes to contribute to the restoration of an ethic that can be the foundation of a truly free and humane system of social assistance.
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Acton Research
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From the Journal of Markets & Morality
Receiving Community: The Church and the Future of the New Urbanist Movement
by
Eric
O.
Jacobsen
The ideas behind the New Urbanist movement represent a significant challenge
to the reigning orthodoxy, which has held sway within the guild of professional
developers and planners over the past fifty years. The town of Seaside, and
other successful New Urbanist developments, have demonstrated that this movement
represents a viable alternative to post-World War II development practices.
For the first twenty years of its existence, the New Urbanist movement has
been primarily a secular movement, but it must not remain exclusively so.
This article, argues that if the New Urbanist movement aspires to be more
than just a short-term economic success or a market correction it is going
to have to take the church more seriously as a conversation partner in its
cultural project. In particular, the church can help the New Urbanist movement
grapple with some of the powers and forces, which have an impact upon communities
in ways that are more profound and enduring than economic factors alone. These
forces involve such Christian concepts as redemption, interdependence, selfless
service, and even right worship. Understanding these forces may not help New
Urbanists to build community more efficiently but, rather, may teach us all
how to graciously receive community as a gift.
"I have no privacy, it's loud... They're friendly
as can be, but I didn't come here to make friends."
—Overheard at Seaside, March 2002
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In the Liberal Tradition
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859)
 “I am inclined to believe that if faith be wanting in (a man) he must be subject; and if he believe, he must be free.”
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Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
~ Lord Acton
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