Just a quick note: Due to unforseen drama, I have to postpone the beginning of the Online Social Justice Bible Study until this Thursday.
Everything is OK, I am just behind.
Thanks for understanding.
By some counts, there are over 2000 verses in the Christian Bible that discuss how we are to deal with the poor and the oppressed. There are so many that some have claimed that it is the largest single theme in the scriptures.
I relayed this to some friends the other day, and they doubted both [...]
Almost a year ago, I wrote a blog post about Evelyn, a person I met early on in my time in Raleigh, who would go on to die an unfortunate and premature death. I often tell her story in churches, because her troubled life is quite stereotypical of what I see out here.
I published an [...]
In the churches and faith groups that I talk to I find there is a real hunger among people to live the Way of Jesus, not just belong to a church or acknowledge a creed. These people want to live for Jesus–not just on Sunday, but everyday. They feel that the message of Jesus was [...]
As I have told you before, we have wrestled with how to set up the structure of our ministry here at Love Wins. While people who want to donate to us desire to write the donation off on their taxes, setting up a full non-profit has been financially out of our reach.
Finally, a solution has [...]
Many of you have written me to ask about the status of James and Ruby, whom I wrote about recently.
I am pleased to say that the response has been tremendous. Here is the current status:
We currently have rent covered for the next six weeks. That means we will still be short at least 4 weeks.
We [...]
Just to let you know I updated the list of needs in the menu bar at the top of the page. If you are ever wondering about our current needs, this is always a good place to start.
I have known James and Ruby for about five months. I have watched them battle with recovery from alcohol addiction, watched them grow in their faith, listened as they have battled their demons, sat in their room they rent from a local slumlord, had Ruby cry on my shoulder as she battled with her inner [...]
I have found I do my best, most impassioned writing in responding to questions. If you have any questions at all about what we are doing, why we do it, the theology that it rests upon or pretty much anything else, please post them in the comments below (or, if you would rather, email them [...]
(NB: We always post our email newsletter on the website about a week after we send it to our subscribers. The newsletter was delayed last month, which is why the August newsletter is posted here in September…)
Dear Friends,
The astute among you will note that the August newsletter almost ended up being the September newsletter. The letter this [...]
