Why Facebook Posts and Free Food Giveaways Aren’t Transforming Lives
For years I’ve been impressed with the ways Haiti Partners has asked hard questions about how we love our neighbors. Today Jonathan Chan, who does some of everything with Haiti Partners, gives a...
View ArticlePrisons “Overwhelmingly Filled With People of Color”: Just or Unjust?
Like many today, Jonathan Brooks, Senior Pastor at Canaan Community Church in Chicago’s Englewood Neighborhood, is concerned about the juvenile justice system in America. Today he shares about the...
View ArticleWhy I Get Credit Card Applications for FredPhelpsFuneral.com
UPDATE: Fred Phelps passed away on Wednesday, March 19 at the age of 84 January 7, 2011, I sent my husband an email at work: “Hey, will you send me an email to FredPhelpsFuneral@gmail.com?” A few...
View ArticleWhy hasn’t any President since Lyndon B. Johnson made ending hunger and...
I recently met Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy at the Pittsburgh airport. She’s the Interim Director of Church Relations at Bread for the World and she believes Christians can end hunger. Which intrigued...
View Article38 Minutes to See What’s Behind Ferguson, MO
Give me 38 minutes. If you don’t have them now, block them out on your Google calendar, right now, for later this evening. Stay up past your bedtime if you have to. I want you to spend 38 minutes...
View ArticleDoing Good Without Giving Up by Ben Lowe
Running for Congress at age twenty-five, Ben Lowe seized the opportunity to meet voters waiting for their morning trains into the city. “Hi, I’m Ben Lowe, and I’m running for Congress in this...
View ArticleMoms Speak Truth: Listening in a Season of Lament
Why would a mother—and my friend Vanessa is one of the most thoughtful loving mothers I know—beg her son, with closely shorn hair, to not wear his hood on a morning when temperatures are below...
View ArticleSeeing White Privilege
Not a day passes that I don’t notice the subtle benefits afforded to me simply by virtue of being born white. It’s why I don’t need a strategy to be treated with respect when I shop at the mall. I...
View ArticlePractical Hope In Face of Uncertainty
Many of us have been searching for a meaningful response over the last several months, when so many vulnerable people in our nation—and around the world—have felt threatened. Admittedly, news about...
View Article#NFLKneeldown: Leroy Barber on Fasting from Football
An interview with Jesus-follower Leroy Barber about boycotting the NFL and kneeling for justice. Leroy, what is the #NFLkneeldown? NFL Kneeldown has been a series of peaceful actions, where supporters...
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