Things are a little slow getting
back to what people call normal after the New Year, but there are some
significant Just Third Way events happening.
Of particular interest is the fact that 2019 marks the twenty-fifth
anniversary of CESJ’s bestselling (by small press definitions) book, Curing World Poverty: The New Role of
Property. And other happenings are
equally interesting:
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• CESJ Revamped Website. The
new CESJ website is now up and should be in all the search engines by
Monday. The main thing has been to make
the website easier to use on all devices (or at least as many as possible) and
to update a few items that needed updating.
• CESJ Newsletter. After in-depth discussion, it was decided to try
out the revived CESJ newsletter on a bimonthly basis instead of a quarterly
publication. The first issue should be
out by the end of February.
• Arco-Carib Newsletter. Michiel
Bijkerk, who traveled around Cuba a few years ago to bring them word of the
Just Third Way and told about it in his book, Cuba:
A New Beginning (Spanish
version here), is restarting his Arco-Carib newsletter in an electronic
format. We only learned of this
yesterday, and so have no details, but we will keep you notified. If Michiel agrees, we may send out the first
issue as a sample to the Just Third Way mailing list, and then people can
subscribe if they want..
• A New Saint Louis? No, not
the saint in France, but the city in Missouri.
We have been having discussions with an entrepreneur in Saint Louis, MO,
about a project to start revitalizing the area’s economy and rebuild the
city. The key, of course, is getting the
local banking community and the Saint Louis Federal Reserve interested, as
financing would otherwise mean nothing will happen.
• Utah Development. We have
also been having similar meetings with an entrepreneur from Utah, which
according to reports is the fastest growing (and maybe the only growing!) state
in the country. A number of innovative
construction and energy ideas have been talked about, e.g., one that might substantially reduce construction costs for
buildings.
• Curing World Poverty. The
special Silver Anniversary Edition of Curing
World Poverty is on track and may be available by the end of February if
all goes well. The book was a “small
press bestseller,” and the demand has been constant, but the original publisher
is unable to reprint. The copyright has
been assigned to CESJ, and with the advanced technology available today for
publishing, can easily be kept in print along with other CESJ books.
• Video Book Trailers. Three
draft video book trailers have been prepared and scripts for voice overs are
being edited. One of the hardest parts
of the whole process is finding suitable background music that is in the public
domain and is available for free in the proper file format. For the trailer for the Just Third Way
Edition of Fulton Sheen’s Freedom Under
God we were fortunate enough to find a recording of the theme music from
his first television program‚ played by the composer himself! Fritz Kreisler’s Little Viennese March.
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• Shop online and support CESJ’s work! Did you know that by making
your purchases through the Amazon Smile
program, Amazon will make a contribution to CESJ? Here’s how: First, go to https://smile.amazon.com/. Next, sign in to your Amazon account. (If you don’t have an account with Amazon,
you can create one by clicking on the tiny little link below the “Sign in using
our secure server” button.) Once you
have signed into your account, you need to select CESJ as your charity — and
you have to be careful to do it exactly this way: in the
space provided for “Or select your own charitable organization” type “Center for Economic and Social Justice
Arlington.” If you type anything
else, you will either get no results or more than you want to sift through. Once you’ve typed (or copied and pasted) “Center for Economic and Social Justice
Arlington” into the space provided, hit “Select” — and you will be taken to
the Amazon shopping site, all ready to go.
• Blog Readership. We have had visitors from 37 different
countries and 42 states and provinces in the United States and Canada to this
blog over the past week. Most visitors are from the United States, Brazil, Australia,
the United Kingdom, and Argentina. The
most popular postings this past week in descending order were “Fulton
Sheen and the Principles of Economic Justice,” “The
Three Ways of Fulton Sheen,” “News
from the Network, Vol. 12, No. 03,” “From
Social Christianity to Christian Socialism,” and “Fulton
Sheen on Private Property.”
Those are the happenings for this
week, at least those that we know about.
If you have an accomplishment that you think should be listed, send us a
note about it at mgreaney [at] cesj [dot] org, and we’ll see that it gets into
the next “issue.” If you have a short
(250-400 word) comment on a specific posting, please enter your comments in the
blog — do not send them to us to post for you.
All comments are moderated, so we’ll see it before it goes up.
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