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Volume 1 (Browse contents)

  1. SASS: A Girl's Guide to Surviving Middle School
    Kayla Walker Edin

Volume 2 (Browse contents)

  1. Staying for Tea: Five Principles for the Community Service Volunteer
    Aaron Ausland
    Lessons learned in the field are distilled into a set of principles.

  2. I Am These People: Finding God and Community in the Streets
    Katie Villano
    A Krista Colleague reflects on community, simplicity, spirituality, social justice and awakening to the realization that she is “these people” on the streets of Tacoma.

  3. Role-Plays
    Angie Lai
    Even the smallest of roles shapes the story that is told, whether it is a staged play or the real life of homeless youth.

Volume 3 (Browse contents)

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. A Passage into Leadership: Lessons from John Muir's Long Walk
    James Hunt
    In an appraisal of environmentalist John Muir’s walk to the Gulf of Florida, Dr. Hunt explores the relationship between travel and leadership.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Southern Storm: A Reflection on AIDS Hospice Work
    Lindsay Leeder
    A Krista Colleague shares how sitting in genuine solidarity with patients facing death became a life altering, even mystical experience.

Volume 4 (Browse contents)

  1. The Power of Presence: A Post-Katrina New Orleans Reflection
    Alisa Bright
    In the midst of Post-Katrina recovery chaos, what does a newly reopened service center - much less a service volunteer - really have to offer?

  2. Pouring from an Empty Cup
    Sarah Peterson
    A Krista Colleague examines the dry reservoir of her once activist spirit in search of a more sustainable source of energy and care.

  3. L'Arche Photo Essay
    Bill Hoskyn

  4. A Search for Home
    Cleo Peterson
    What or who makes a home? An artist reflects on her painting.

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