Reflections on Two Years with the Homeless

I’ve spent the last, roughly, two years working at a homeless shelter. In fact, this is the first Monday in a long while that I haven’t spent at the shelter doing things like helping homeless men create and stick to a budget, look for work, gain self-esteem, and learn life skills like cooking, opening [...]

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Updates on U.S. Sponsored Torture

If you haven’t heard, President Obama released four memos from the Bush administration approving of and describing acts of torture used by our government. You can read about it here and here and here. I was asked by the people at the God’s Politics blog to write a piece regarding this announcement since [...]

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Recent Reading

What About Hitler?: Wrestling with Jesus’s Call to Nonviolence in an Evil World by Robert Brimlow. Brimlow begins with the belief that Jesus clearly and uncompromisingly teaches his disciples to practice lives of nonviolence. If one does not accept this presupposition, which I do, this isn’t the book to start with if [...]

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Outside the Camp

Yesterday I came across this wonderful poem, “Outside the Camp,” written by Brad East. Brad’s a guy who I’ve gotten to know through my blog and he has some really good insights at his blog Resident Theology. You should definitely check it out. He’s a fellow CofC’er and a student at Candler [...]

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“Turning Tanks into Tractors” and other Musings from Rev. Joseph Lowery

All of the hoopla about prayer heading into President Obama’s inauguration was about the choice for Rick Warren to be give the opening prayer. While I appreciated Mr. Warren’s prayer, I think he was more inclusive than people expected him to be and I appreciated his willingness to ask for national forgiveness (although I [...]

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We Ain’t There Yet

The day after Barack Obama was elected president I heard people say multiple times that we have now arrived as a “post-racial” nation and that it can now be said that anyone can truly be president if a black man can be. That same day on the front page of the New York Times [...]

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All I Want for Christmas is…Clean Water

As someone who is both a Christian and one who has devoted a significant chunk of life to providing clean water to those without it I truly appreciated this video:

If you are interested in being part of the solution visit Advent Conspiracy here.

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A Thanksgiving Reflection

remember growing up we would have Thanksgiving with several families from our church. Being the child of a soldier and an immigrant I didn’t grow up around my blood family. These people, however, soon became my family and I miss spending the holiday with them now that I am in the far [...]

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A Challenge to White Christians

hanks to Larry James for letting us know about this article. According to Associated Press writer Jesse Washington, after Obama’s election incidents of race based hate crimes escalated across the country. I guess, no matter the rhetoric of some commentators, we really aren’t living in a post-racial country. Read the article here [...]

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Some Reality for Justice Loving Obama Supporters

I came across this wonderful piece by Jonathan Walton at Religion Dispatches that clearly articulates the significance of Barack Obama’s election as president while also putting that in dialogue with Reinhold Niebuhr’s (the guy Obama says is his favorite theologian, FYI) “Christian realism” to make clear that Obama is no new savior. In fact, [...]

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Feed the Hungry for Jesus’ Sake

ccording to this article 691,000 children went hungry in America last year. According to this article parents in Haiti (and many other countries) have to choose which child will starve to death because there is not enough food to feed their families. Something I am very passionate about, but have not mentioned much [...]

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Obama Promises to Close Guantanamo

God’s Politics has just posted another of my posts. It is a continuation of my posts about torture on the site as well as a response to another series of posts they had on whether Christians should vote or not. Check it out:
President-elect Barack Obama, in his first interview since being elected, promised [...]

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