By Sean Carasso This time around, it’s all together new. A year ago, I wanted to get lost. Today, I just want to understand. Originally, I went to Africa to put shoes on kids’ feet. My friend built a company grounded in giving and there I was, on the ground, giving. After the TOMS Shoes … Continue reading All Together New: Falling Whistles in the Congo
By Moira Allaby Deb Gangemi read Tom Davis’ Fields of the Fatherless three years ago. In it, Tom introduces readers to “people God wants us to put at the top of our priority list: the orphans, widows, and aliens (strangers).” He writes of his life-altering experience caring for a group of orphans in Russia, and … Continue reading Better Hearts Through Breaking: Why orphan care matters
By Onleilove Alston The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s … Continue reading Being the Oaks of Righteousness: Domestic Workers United
By Trey Lyon When you regularly plan activities for youth, it’s difficult to find variety, particularly when you’re almost 7 years into it. The requisite beach trips, laser-tag, putt-putt mini-golf, go-kart lock-ins, gym lock-ins, youth camps and ski trips are enough to make anyone die of monotony. In the desperate search for something different I … Continue reading A Different Kind of Vacation
By Jeff Goins, Editor I once was eating lunch in downtown Nashville with a friend. We met at an ice cream shop, but relocated to the Cheese Steak Factory (not to be confused with the just-as-delicious Cheesecake Factory) for toasted sandwiches. During our meal, my friend told me about his mission trip to Tanzania, and … Continue reading Our Daily Bread: Dining with Strangers
By Onleilove Alston “A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to … Continue reading Holding Obama Accountable: The Poor People’s Campaign
By Trey Lyon Continued from From Exclusion to Embrace: Three stories of poverty and compassion Three: From my office-cave I pecked away at the keyboard, blissfully unaware of the tall man with the scraggly beard who had made his way into the church office. After a little while, I picked up a few details. He … Continue reading From Exclusion to Embrace, Pt. 2: Three stories of poverty and compassion
By Trey Lyon One: She was just lying there. Between the Fulton County Courthouse and the Cathedral. Half on a giant concrete planter, the latter half on a makeshift ottoman of old blankets, clothes, bags and a shipping dolly. I watched as one of our college students pulled a pair of gloves over her arthritic … Continue reading From Exclusion to Embrace, Pt. 1: Three stories of poverty and compassion
By Caitlin Woodward I picked up the copy of The Treasury of American Prayer by James P. Moore, Jr. I studied the corners and cover of the outside. I opened it to scan the introductions, meet the author, and read the prologue. “Impress me,” I thought to myself. Picture America for a moment. Thousands of … Continue reading Book Review: The Treasury of American Prayer
By Lorie Newman My most important spiritual lessons were not learned in a Sunday School classroom, a Bible Study group, or a Sanctuary. They were learned in the presence of poverty, death, and suffering. They were learned from the eyes of a hungry orphan, the words of a sick widow, the smile of an abandoned … Continue reading Comfortable Christianity: Lessons from Africa