By Christine Young Today, western culture disgusted me. I went to Tysons Corners, an upscale mall in Washington D.C. With limited time given to each person to live out this life and limited resources to use to the best of our ability western civilization created the MALL – the ultimate trap for us to waste … Continue reading Poverty of the Mall
By Tisha Lynne Speelman Click on the images to enlarge You see the distress we are in, how Jerusalem lays waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach. -Nehemiah 2:17 Many of our cities are literally crying out … Continue reading See the Distress We Are In
By Brian Alonzo I was twenty-one, I think. How did you feel as you watched me scrape my knees? What did you think as I cried out for help? When did you move as my life began to fall? I was twenty-one, Right? You must remember. It was the night at the hockey game. I … Continue reading Twenty-One
By Jeff Goins, Editor Thanks to our friends at the following websites for publishing some form of this article: Relevant Magazine / Burnside Writers Collective / Evangelicals for Social Action / ProdigalSon Magazine . I’ve since refined and expanded some thoughts, making it more personal. Enjoy: The first time I think I was ever fascinated … Continue reading Leaving Home: Why we need a pilgrimage
By Narelle Tout Aboriginal Youth Breathe Together Jordan Come Forth The Road You Choose Click on the above images to enlarge Aboriginal Youth The one titled “Aboriginal Youth” is simply because I really love the aboriginal people. I think that they are so very beautiful, and I love to draw them – especially in chalk … Continue reading Faith on Canvas
By Mark Zimmerman Continued from Back to Jerusalem By June of 2006, I had walked in the front door of Building Hope in the City – www.buildinghopeinthecity.org – a ministry of Trinity Lutheran Church at West 30th and Lorain in Clevelands Ohio City neighborhood. There are many inner city ministries in Cleveland. Certainly lots of … Continue reading Back to Jerusalem, Pt. 2
By Ron Sider An estimate from the United Nations in 1980 stated, Women work two-thirds of the worlds working hours, produce half of the worlds food, and yet earn only 10 percent of the worlds income and own less than 1 percent of the worlds property. Unfortunately, we do not have nearly enough hard data … Continue reading Injustices Against Women
By Amanda Dums From Cambodia. My heart has once again been ripped out of my chest. In the midst of seeing other people’s pain I find myself looking more and more selfish. We pulled up to the orphanage today in our little red tuk-tuk like we always do every morning at nine. Before we could … Continue reading Tears Fall Hard
By Jimmy McCarty Uganda is a beautiful country. From the Rwenzori mountain range to Lake Victoria and the headwaters of the Nile River there is natural beauty to be found everywhere. The people of Uganda are beautiful people as well. I would like to tell you of two families, and the beautiful way they extended … Continue reading Hospitality in Uganda: A Tale of Two Families
By Matt Kok faces. The pictures in this collage are simple. They are pictures of faces the faces of the kids and teens I worked with on a First Nations (Native American) Reserve in Northern Ontario. Many of these photos were taken by the kids themselves. Every once in a while they would ask to … Continue reading The Faces of First Nations