Just what is poverty?
I have heard all sorts of answers to this, and many of them describe poverty (no money, no power, no choice) but it is hard to say exactly what poverty is, and why, for example, I can never be poor, regardless of how little money I have.
Watch this short video. The author [...]
Just a heads up that we are doing a redesign on the website. I have not been happy with it for a while now and have tried on seveal “looks”.
I like the new layout and the ‘rotating’ images at the top. If you change pages, or even refresh the page you are on, it should [...]
Note:This post is part of our Online Social Justice Bible Study (click the link to see all the entries so far).
The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to [...]
This week, those of us at The Gathering began our discussion of practices our community wants to focus around. As I mentioned earlier, we are taking our lead from John Howard Yoder’s book Body Politics and the five practices he mentions there-
Group discernment and reconciliation
Open Meetings–a community of equals
Everyone has a gift [...]
My friends at Raleigh Mennonite Church asked me if I would say a prayer today during their “lighting of the Peace Lamp”. Basically, the idea is (or so it seems - this is solely my interpretation) is that each week they pray for a people group that needs justice and light a lamp (that would [...]
Back during the summer, several of us started talking about the next step in our ministry to the poor and homeless, and one thing that kept coming up was what to do with the increasing need we felt for some sort of discipleship in the communities we serve. Finally, several of us decided we needed [...]
After reading over John Scalzi’s list of what it means to be poor, I spent some time thinking what it means to be homeless.
Here are just a few off the top of my head. I could do this all day, and the longer I do it, the angrier I get at a society as rich [...]
For the record, being poor sucks.
No one has ever captured it as well for me as John Scalzi, a writer of some note. Scalzi wrote this in the immediate aftermath of Huricane Katrina, when there was a lot of folks dissing the poor for not leaving New Orleans in advance of the storm.
Being Poor
Being poor is [...]
Dear Friends,
It was the middle of the night when my phone rang. I answer it, a bit afraid, for no good news comes in the middle of the night.
It was T–, and she was crying. “B– is gone, and I don’t know where he is.” In between the sobs and the occasional wail, it comes [...]
Maybe three times in the last four weeks, I have used something C. S. Lewis said as an example or explanation. This is all the more remarkable because while once upon a time I practically promoted Mr. Lewis to near-god status, he and I have fallen out of favor in the last few years. I [...]
