Volume 3: Come to the Table

Introduction From The Editor

In an effort to explore the nature of this [service] ethic, we have arranged this issue of The Global Citizen around the metaphor of a table. Tables, be they the tables of our childhood or those of our adult lives, are by their very nature places where we gain our values. Thus, in the first article, Come to the Table: Five Values for the Global Citizen, I have invited you to explore the nature of this ethic at each of five tables. The values set out at these tables mutuality, influence, competence, humility, and celebration are neither a complete nor settled set. One might question why I chose mutuality over sacrifice, community or wonder; or perhaps why hope or change were left out. By sustaining a metaphor of invitation to this series of five tables, I hope to leave space for such questions, indeed space for other tables where this ethic might be further shaped. Read the full introduction.

Come to the Table: Five Values for Global Citizens

Aaron Ausland

An invitation to consider a values framework for global citizenship that will empower you to live out a life-long ethic of service, civic engagement, and global understanding.

COMMUNITY TABLE: Mutuality

From Jinja Town to Farm Town: Creating Home

Darien Palpant

A Krista Colleague and young mother reflects on her beautifully complex experience of building community.

Speaking for Myself

Linda Pak

One Krista Colleague, using her Service and Leadership Development grant, writes about hers surprising encounter with questions of truth and identity.

A New Start: New Start Alternative School and A New Start For Me

Bethany Dearborn

Life lessons learned from the unlikeliest of teachers high school students from New Start alternative school.

NEGOTIATION TABLE: Influence

A Passage into Leadership: Lessons from John Muir's Long Walk

James Hunt

In an appraisal of environmentalist John Muirs walk to the Gulf of Florida, Dr. Hunt explores the relationship between travel and leadership.

Book Review: Everything and its Opposite: The Great Globalization Debate Since 1999

Michael Veseth

In a survey of the key literature on globalization over the past two decades, Dr. Veseth traces the nexus of the debate and how it has changed our understanding and expectations of globalization.

STUDY TABLE: Competence

Creating Change in a Changing Climate

Katie Villano

A Krista Colleague wrestles with the nature of service as she makes her way through the often cold confines of graduate school.

I'm Going Home, But First...

Rachael Novak

A Krista Colleague finds creative ways to link her graduate research with her determination to contribute to the people and environmental concerns of her Navajo homeland in the beautiful Sonoran Desert.

OPERATING TABLE: Humility

Service Compost

Sarah Wanless

From her family farm in Central Washington to a rural village in El Salvador and back again, a Krista Colleague writes about the transforming soil of service.