Here are student summaries of fall 2024 MCJD dialogical surveys with members of the First A.M.E. Zion congregation. Click on any title for details, then return to see all titles.
A Kindred Spirit
Event: First AME ZionInterviewer: Max
Whom did you interview?
The member of the First AME Zion church that me and my two table partners worked with was a short, bespectacled woman named Georgia. Georgia grew up in a forest where her father worked and had very strong and outspoken opinions on environmental issues, which she was happy to share with us.
How did your EcoTypes and SDG priorities compare?In my conversation with Georgia I found that we agreed on most of the points that the survey touched on. When discussing each question and topic, we often arrived to the same conclusions and built on each others’ points. At the end of the survey, however, Georgia’s results differed a bit from mine and my peers’. While everyone at the table besides me was placed in the “earth action” quadrant, I was just slightly tipped right into the “social justice” category. And while my classmates and I were all categorized as the integral knowledge type, Georgia showed a lean towards old knowledge.
What larger MCJD lessons did you learn?I found it interesting that the results of everyone at my table were different, despite us all agreeing almost completely with each other in conversation. To me, it showed that MCJD doesn’t just mean that people have different values and priorities, but that those with the same values and priorities may quantify those on different scales, either relative to each other or to a larger environmental scope.