<a href="http://www.upcsa.org/sol-calendar/2016/12/16/why-bother-to-change-the-world-challenging-the-problem-of-cynicism" target="_blank">Register By: Mar. 22</a> Participants begin with a simple and universal insight: the world is not as we wish it to be. In responding to the call to remake the world, we face the complexity of the issues at hand, the enormous weight of the past, and the recalcitrance of the social and political systems in which we do our work. But of all of these obstacles, cynicism is among the most stubborn and debilitating. The cynic asks…

A. Michael Spence is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean, Emeritus, at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He is the chairman of an independent Commission on Growth and Development, created in 2006 and focused on growth and poverty reduction in developing countries. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to the analysis of markets with asymmetric information. His research interests focus on…

The SA Sponsoring Committee, a new and diverse coalition of congregations and other institutions, will kick-off our organizing strategy. Bring your delegation to learn how you can be part of this new organized constituency working for the Common Good in South Texas.