This is an excerpt from the 2024 Conference workshop Becoming a Pro-Black Organization: A Healing-Centered Framework for Equity. Click here to download this workshop from the CCDA store.You know that line in every city between the haves and the have-nots? Cornerstone CDC is right on that [...]Read More
#ccdaAdvent: Love Beloveds
Welcome to #ccdaAdvent.In the midst of darkness, oppression, and marginalization, Christ entered the scene of the first Advent and paved the way for our communal wellbeing. This Advent season, we invite you to consider the implications of Christ’s coming for our communities. What lessons may we draw [...]Read More
#ccdaAdvent: A Servant King
Welcome to #ccdaAdvent.In the midst of darkness, oppression, and marginalization, Christ entered the scene of the first Advent and paved the way for our communal wellbeing. This Advent season, we invite you to consider the implications of Christ's coming for our communities. What lessons may we draw [...]Read More
#ccdaAdvent: Active Hope
Welcome to #ccdaAdvent.In the midst of darkness, oppression, and marginalization, Christ entered the scene of the first Advent and paved the way for our communal wellbeing. This Advent season, we invite you to consider the implications of Christ's coming for our communities. What lessons may we draw [...]Read More
#ccdaAdvent: Journey to Bethlehem
Welcome to #ccdaAdvent.In the midst of darkness, oppression, and marginalization, Christ entered the scene of the first Advent and paved the way for our communal wellbeing. This Advent season, we invite you to consider the implications of Christ's coming for our communities. What lessons may we draw [...]Read More
Persevering Power: How to Embrace Justice and Transformation through Community Development
In my journey of learning to persevere through life’s challenges, I have come to see the deep connection between individual transformation and community transformation. As a former lawyer who left a thriving practice to serve those in crisis through Administer Justice, I have witnessed the power of [...]Read More
The Days After Milton
On October 9th, Hurricane Milton ripped across Central Florida, devastating the West Coast of the state which had already taken a massive beating from Hurricane Helene only two weeks before. Throughout Florida, we are still dealing with receding floodwaters that are overwhelming river water basins [...]Read More
Exploitation and Extraction
In A Different Mirror, Ronald Takaki writes about the landing of the English Pilgrims to what we now think of as New England in the early 1600s. Upon reaching the continent’s shores, the new arrivals found the Indigenous Americans were being decimated by viruses like smallpox, diseases that arrived [...]Read More