Archive - Civic Renaissance with Alexandra Hudson

The Relational Cost and Promise of Sobriety

Watch now | One Person’s Sobriety Led to Isolation. Another’s Led to Belonging.

Jan 13 • Alexandra Hudson and Ericka Andersen

0:10

Efficiency Is Making Us Less Human

Kahlil Gibran and Jacques Ellul on what modern systems can’t measure, and what we lose because of it

Jan 9 • Alexandra Hudson

The Extraordinary Power of the Ordinary

Watch now | Why the Civic Renaissance tour is beginning, starting with local communities

Jan 7 • Alexandra Hudson

23:34

December 2025

Heroes and Villains

The Soul of Civility for young citizens, parents, teachers and mentors.

Dec 19, 2025 • Alexandra Hudson

15:56

The Forgotten Art of the No-Excuse Apology

I owned my mistake, and what it taught me about grace for myself and others.

Dec 16, 2025 • Alexandra Hudson

0:11

Can We Forgive Without a Crisis?

Can individuals and societies can choose reconciliation, healing, and change without waiting for catastrophe?

Dec 12, 2025 • Alexandra Hudson

16:25

The Joy We Forgot

How mythos and logos meet, and what that means for our homes and communities this season.

Dec 9, 2025 • Alexandra Hudson

7:39

When the Guest Becomes the Gift

Mentor in Residence opportunity and an invitation to join an online salon on joy!

Dec 2, 2025 • Alexandra Hudson

November 2025

Hospitality is the New Noblesse Oblige

Why cultivating margin, spontaneity, and welcome to the stranger is a civic act and duty

Nov 26, 2025 • Alexandra Hudson

7:53

Before the World Wakes

How early moments of quiet shape clearer thinking and better living

Nov 22, 2025 • Alexandra Hudson

4:25

Choosing Mitfreude instead of Schadenfreude in a zero-sum age

Nov 13, 2025 • Alexandra Hudson

8:02

When Congress Remembered How to Be Friends

A forgotten weekend in 1997 shows how trust and friendship once restored Congress—and why they must again.

Nov 7, 2025 • Alexandra Hudson

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