MISSION
The Mission of this Lake County Ohio Weal blog
is to create a
Virtual Community
organized around reading articles from
Commonweal Magazine
within a framework of
Voluntary Spiritual Leadership
structured along dimensions of
Leadership:
Forms of Capital:
The accumulation of labor in the forms of
Human Capital (persons, their talents, skills, and charisms)
Social Capital (institutions and their social networks)
Cultural Capital (ideas, values, and symbols)
Time:
Spirituality:
Voluntarism:
Bible:
Prayer:
Commonweal fosters rigorous and reflective discussions about faith, public affairs, and the arts, centered on belief in the common good. Independent and lay-led, Commonweal is a bridge between the intellectual and active lives of lay Catholics who seek meaning and justice, inspiring people in their hopes for a more inclusive future for our church, politics, and culture. Founded in 1924, Commonweal is published by the nonprofit Commonweal Foundation for all readers who want to engage with the Catholic tradition in a context of justice, charity, and critical intelligence.
Since 2013, readers and friends of Commonweal have gathered in their local communities for critical conversation on the issues that matter most. Each community determines their goals, set-up, meeting times, and the readings best suited for them. As for the conversation itself, many use Commonweal's Conversation Starter Series while others discuss readings from the pages of the magazine or set their own agenda entirely.
What was the Commonweal Blog?
December 4, 2007
Very early Thursday morning, dotCommonweal (but not the main site) will be down for about two hours while our Web developers install several upgrades, most of which are behind-the-scenes improvements. Third, you can now subscribe to the comments, as distinct from the blog posts, so you can more easily keep tabs on your favorite (and not-so-favorite) conversations. Fourth, you’ll be able to search blog content via the handy search box just above the contributors list.
February 24, 2010
A new report by the Social Science Research Council (posted at the Immanent Frame and written by Nathan Schneider)names dotCommonweal as one of the hundred (or so) most influential religion blogs. Among sites that receive links from the religion blogosphere, dotCommonweal ranks fourth.
The above post summarizes my experience with the Cleveland Commonweal Local Community as well as a blog that descended from the dotCommonweal Blog. It advocates Commonweal communities that meet in homes and virtual Commonweal communities.