The Rise of Global Civil Society

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Building Communities and Nations from the Bottom Up

By Don Eberly
(Encounter Books, 2008)

A sweeping and hopeful overview of the extraordinary new forces that are prying open closed societies and cultivating democratic norms across the globe.

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You say that it is difficult to put this advice into practice. Who denies it? Plato has a fitting saying: “Those things which are beautiful are also difficult.” Nothing is harder than for a man to conquer himself, but there is no greater reward or blessing.

Desiderius Erasmus, The Handbook of the Militant Christian (1503)