One of the first homeless people I met when I came to Raleigh was Betty. She lives in a van just off of Moore’s Square (yes, you read that right) and is sort of the “den mother” (I stole that line, as you will see in a moment) to the homeless in downtown Raleigh. No [...]
Sometimes I feel like Don Quixote, slashing away at broken windmills with my rusty lance, but if you see wrong and refuse to speak up, is that not a greater wrong?
Raleigh is an awesome place, and I love it here. The energy, the vibrancy and so on just make me feel alive. One thing that [...]
Her name was Evelyn, and as near as I can tell, she was 22, although some say 23. She was a very heavy girl, so heavy it was a struggle for her to walk. She had poor skin and bad hair that often looked greasy, and above all, she avoided eye contact.
I tried several times [...]
What comes to mind? Maybe… buy medicine for the uninsured. Perhaps he would buy food for the hungry. Hmmm. Well, it is cold outside, so maybe he would buy blankets, coats and socks.
Well, one Raleigh church decided that they think Jesus would buy a pipe organ. A. Pipe. Organ. Are you kidding me?
Nope. Not at [...]
If we are crazy, then it is because we refuse to be crazy in the same way that the world has gone crazy. - Peter Maurin
Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society. - Jacques Ellul
If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to [...]
I found an interesting post as I was surfing the interweb. They took pictures and captions from the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio. In the post, they show the cost of eating for various families around the world, then show pictures of what that amount buys.
Some figures:
Germany [...]
Well, it is at night, anyway.
If you have any blankets, coats or gift cards from Wal-Mart (so we can buy the blankets or coats), I hope you will consider contacting me and donating them so we can distibute them to the homeless and those in need.
Ironically, a large need you may not think of is [...]
First, thank you all for your kind emails of encouragement for the struggles we have here. They are greatly appreciated, and it is that sort of thing that keeps me going when struggling to keep going.
I know not everyone is a blog addict like I am, and that we all have busy lives. In addition, [...]
