Welcome to The Global Citizen Journal Online, a resource for young adults, educators, leaders and others interested in topics about engaging the world through service.
Service volunteerism can be an amazing adventure—filled with life-shaping connections and heart-stretching challenges. The Global Citizen is a journal written by young adults during or after volunteer service, and by ‘veteran’ global citizens. It is published every 12-18 months based on article submission cycle. Service organizations, service-learning programs, and university professors find these reflections to be valuable tools in trainings, classrooms and debriefings. To see an informational guide to using the journal, click here.
Use the search bar above to find articles on a range of topics like debriefing and healthy service ethics, or select a volume below and browse the tables of contents.
Volume 4: Lessons from the Field
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Introduction From The Editor
In this, our fourth edition of The Global Citizen, we have arranged a collection of essays from young service volunteers who have learned rich lessons in the field school of service and global citizenship. We know that an essay is no substitute for personal experience and that many of these lessons can only be truly learned the hard way. So consider this a sort of companion reader for the curriculum of experience as a service volunteer and life as a global citizen.
Volume 3: Come to the Table
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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.
Volume 2: Staying For Tea
Introduction From The Editor
If travel and service are important to the development of leaders who engage society with a sense of civic responsibility, and this in turn helps to build the social capital required for healthy democratic governance and for societies to function well, then the Krista Foundation is doing very well to support young adults who commit themselves to significant periods of travel and service. This edition of the Global Citizen contains eight articles written by “Krista Colleagues” – service volunteers who have received support from the foundation. Their topics range widely, but each article provides a window into the transformative process of which Dr. Hunt writes. Each author grapples with a unique set of issues brought to the surface as they served others in a new place.
Volume 1: Inaugural Edition
Introduction From The Editor
The Krista Foundation for Global Citizenship has sponsored the creation of The Global Citizen to provide a place for an intergenerational exploration of these questions. In particular, we hope to gather together and share specific experiences and reflections from those who are engaging global issues like poverty, race/culture/gender friction, and environmental stress. The majority of our contributors are young Christian activists who have chosen a path of service for the love and hope of humanity and the planet. "Veteran" global citizens, who model ways for living a lifelong ethic of service, have been invited to contribute their experience and wisdom as well.
Volume 4: Lessons from the Field
Service 101, 201, 301 and 480: Exploring from "The Power of Prescence" to "Raising Global Citizens".
