This video is just sick, and it represents a good reason I don’t watch FOX News. Between this kind of overt filth and the garbage spewed by Bill O’Reilly, I just can’t see how anyone who professes Christ as Lord can possibly advocate this stuff. It’ll be interesting to see how FOX responds to Liz...
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As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through non-violent action; for they ask and write me, “So...
Intelligent Travel, National Geographic Traveler’s blog, posted a list of organizations that you can volunteer through to help New Orleans recover and rebuild. I wanted to add to that list my home church, Edgewater Baptist Church, and the North American Mission Board’s Operation NOAH. Also, they used one of my photos in their post, which...
There was a big gathering of New Orleans’ homeless in front of City Hall Saturday. I usually catch some of the local news every day, but I’ll be the first to say I didn’t hear anything about this until I came across the article on CBS News. Maybe because it was an election weekend, we...
I’ve been reading Bob Roberts’ Glocalization along with some other books, like Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner’s Freakonomics, and Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us. First my mind was on nation-building, then it transitioned into sustainable development. I remember an old economics professor of mine...