Author: Gib Pellet

Encouraging Action

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The group encourages its members to take tangible actions that promote positive change at whatever level of engagement is possible for them. Making a difference does not often require an arduous level of commitment. Fellow philosophers are asked to examine their consumer habits, to be conscious of their impact on a compromised environment, or to lessen the burden wherever possible of those enduring deprivation. Individual mentorship: Leaders and volunteers also spend time in one on one contacts...
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Reaching Out

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The world is threatened. CGO believes the solutions to the threats are born in the human heart. While everyone doesn’t share the same theology, all believe love is the greatest, transcendent force for positive change. By channeling that power to our world and it’s inhabitants, new paradigms are created that can provide answers to the biggest challenges. CGO’s outreach is part of a global movement to rebuild our economies and governments on a foundation of respect for life and the rights of all. ...
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Space for Perspectives

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Friendly Philosopher’s Group: As part of CGO’s commitment to fostering dialogue, CGO hosts the Friendly Philosophers group, a weekly gathering of 15-40 individuals who join in person or virtually to discuss life questions, the challenges of society today, recent news events, racial trauma, and related topics. People from numerous disciplines and schools of thought – teachers, writers, artists, scientists, ministers and secularists- discuss the human situation and the condition of the earth and i...
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Mission Possible

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Common Ground Outreach (CGO) was founded in 2014 as an outgrowth of a lifetime of experience looking for answers to life’s most meaningful questions. Founded by Gib Pellet, lifelong soul seeker and social justice advocate, he and a committed group of volunteers search for meaning and justice and have multiple points of entry into conversations taking place everywhere in society. Having begun as one person’s mission, CGO is now a large network of people, in different cities, offering resources, o...
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Gib’s Story

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A fair number of years ago some people came into the lives of my high school friends and I back in Lake Forest, Illinois.  Their organization was Young Life. The message was acceptance / which is exactly what kids want but not necessarily from adults.  On top of it these people purveyed Christianity which was completely uncool.  Yuck... religion.  My concept of a good time was carnality.  Let's hear it for appearances, sex and possessions! These Young Life folks came around and spent time jus...
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