Tiny Tigers  Speaker: Emily Quarles-Mowrer 

When my daughter’s Tae Kwon Do class starts with all of the children bowing to their parents and reciting together, “I promise to be a good person,” we are all receiving a lesson in the way that a covenant shapes a community. The cultural norms, that determine the ways we move through the world are often unspoken, whereas a covenant is stated explicitly. Does a covenant have the power to move a culture?