The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging. In this episode, Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp and Reverend Ben McBride speak with john a. powell. Greg Jarrell also jumps in to ask a couple questions.

john a. powell is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, structural racialization, racial identity, fair housing, poverty, and democracy. He is also the founding director of the Othering & Belonging Institute, a UC Berkeley research institute that brings together scholars, community advocates, communicators, and policymakers to identify and eliminate the barriers to an inclusive, just, and sustainable society and to create transformative change toward a more equitable world. The unique spelling of his name is john’s way of signifying that we humans are part of the universe, not over it.

Excerpts and Works Referenced in the Conversation:

• The Nature of Prejudice by Gordon W. Allport
• Contact Hypothesis
• A Poem in Three Parts: Meet Me There
• The History of the Alinsky Organizing Model and Its Practice within Community and Organized Labor
• Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam
• Targeted Universalism
• The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by by Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson

Also, check out our previous episode with Ben about his new book, Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging.

You can also pre-order Greg's new book, Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods.

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation.