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Offensive Jesus?

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Nobody's perfect.  We all make mistakes.  I've made plenty.  I'll make plenty more. And in the future, when i err, I'd like to err on the side of grace. We've heard it said many times before by trendy autho...
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Again, Who Would Jesus Tax?

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I tend not to be impressed when politicians use god-words. In fact I’m immediately suspicious. It seems to me that pandering to religious folks rather than the glorification of God is the goal. Too often t...
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Forgetting the Poor?

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There’s a passage in Galatians 2 that has always intrigued me, so this week I’m going to share three posts on the topic. This is from The Message translation of the Apostle Paul’s letter: “Recognizing that m...
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Being Poor Is A Lot of Work

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Until very recently, I had no idea how hard it is for some of our friends just to find somewhere to lay themselves down to sleep at night. I knew that inner-city families moved around a lot, but I didn’t r...
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Find Your Own Calcutta

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She was small in stature but she stood head and shoulders above the rest of us.  Her life and her message affected the way we view the poor and highly impacted the ways in which we live our lives.  She called u...
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Hard-to-Learn Love

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buy cheap soft viagra"240" height="156" />I won’t even try to describe all of the maddening details of finding a HUD apartment for a homeless, no-income family that consists of a mother, five kids u...
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Hunger Fast: The Call for Justice

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“When I walked outside people, thinking I was a doctor, began handing me their dead children. Within minutes I watched 25 children die.” These were the opening words of Ambassador Tony Hall from within the...