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If you’re around Denver on May 1, please join me for a Beautiful Solutions release event featuring two leaders in the Colorado solidarity economy—hosted at the incomparable MATTER bookshop: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-for-beautiful-solutions-a-toolbox-for-liberation-tickets-1316548374629

For Earth Day today, I had the honor of remembering Pope Francis on Democracy Now, recalling how first reading his Laudato Si’ brought me to tears and how he saw social movements as a site of revelation: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/22/pope_francis_vatican_climate_crisis

With Pope Francis’s passing, I’m reflecting on some of the ways he has been guiding my thinking over the years. On ecology and cooperativism: https://osf.io/jhrmd On Catholic economic thought: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-pope-francis-is-reviving-radical-catholic-economics/ On borders: https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/03/05/catholic-case-open-borders On “gender ideology”: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2023/11/16/gender-ideology-catholic-246515 Pray for us.

Calling all media-makers working at the intersection of religion and social change! Apply for a $25,000 residency to be part of our Center for Media, Religion, and Culture for the next academic year: https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/2025/04/07/open-call-counter-media-residency

I’m thrilled to announce that we’ll be doing a Beautiful Solutions launch event in Denver on May Day at the great Black-owned bookstore Shop at Matter—find the discount code in the text: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-for-beautiful-solutions-a-toolbox-for-liberation-tickets-1316548374629

I’m grateful to be back on the Reimagining the Internet podcast with Ethan Zuckerman to talk about the prospects and challenges of open social media: https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/110-nathan-schneider-governable-spaces/

We need a “politics of yes.” In a new interview at Nonprofit Quarterly, my Beautiful Solutions co-editors describe our attempts at the “nonextractive storytelling” that our movements need right now: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/beautiful-solutions-a-conversation-with-eli-feghali-and-rachel-plattus/

For the first time in my life, I am running for something. The national co-op association, NCBA CLUSA, is in a decisive time of crisis and opportunity, and I feel the call to serve: https://ncbaclusa.coop/blog/meet-the-candidates-running-for-election-to-the-2025-ncba-clusa-board-of-directors/ If you’re a member, I hope you’ll vote, and I’d love to connect about our shared hopes for the movement.

I just learned that TODAY is the release date of the book by one of my great heroes, Coraline Ada Ehmke. She is an engineer who created the most widely adopted code of conduct in tech, and her wisdom and courage overflow everywhere she goes. Get it now: https://thehammerbook.com