Dear Friends,
The Catholic activist Dorothy Day said once that her biggest battle was with Pride. I understand that. I have a lot of people telling me what an awesome thing I am doing in my work of building relationships with very broken people and teaching others how to do the same. I have spoken at [...]
My friend John recently wrote a blog post in which he recounted a small scene from his day:
On the way home, at the stop at the intersection of Gorman and Hillsborough Streets, the bus driver opened the door, and a man with worn clothing, unshaven, and an overly-stuffed backpack screamed at the driver, “Man, I [...]
Dear Friends,
Jean has been in jail for 24 days, counting today. Wednesday was her court appearance, and before the day is done she will be sentenced to 150 days in jail.
A friend and I went and saw her last week. Well, we saw her over the grainy closed-circut TV screen they allowed us to “visit” [...]
Just a quick heads up that March’s newsletter went out on Friday of last week. If you did not get yours, let me know - some folks said theirs was booted to the spam folder in their email client. And if you are not subscribed, I hope you will consider it.
Also, I included a link [...]
Dear Friends,
Just before Christmas, I was at a meeting of Social Justice oriented pastors. During a break, I was talking with a pastor who works for [Really Huge Denomination] at the Regional level. She is ‘over’ many churches, and was really interested in what we are doing. She mentioned she would like us to talk [...]
Dear Friends,
As much as I like writing these emails, they necessarily have to take a back seat to the actual work of ministry itself. I almost did not get this one out to you-not because of a lack of material or information, but because of the time demands created by being in this sort of [...]
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 [...]
(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 [...]
Dear Friends;
One recurring problem we have in our mission to work with and minister to the poor and homeless population of Raleigh is that of how to disciple those who have decided to follow Jesus. I know many of you represent various churches that would be more than happy to have these people attend your [...]
Dear Friends,
If you come into this expecting to save everyone, you will be dissapointed. You will not get most addicts to stop using crack, you will not get everyone a job and you will not get most Christians out of their nice, safe suburban churches and get them actually engaged in loving people who have [...]
