excerpt from “the corporation”
Here’s a chapter from the documentary “The Corporation”
2009 winner for best marketing bungle
So maybe thinking I’d have time to post regularly this winter was a big oversight. Blog writing is just one of those plates that just doesn’t stay spinning. It’s a joke, really, always picking it off the stage like this and giving it another spin. Kind of bad for the show. But that’s not the [...]
love your neighbor
I recently read Randy White’s inspiring and thought-provoking book Journey to the Center of the City. Here are some spin-off thoughts from my reading of the book: 1. Love of neighbor is stimulated by relational involvement. 2. Love of neighbor leads to identifying needs in a neighborhood and identifying pre-existing resources in the neighborhood to [...]
gentrification in philly
There have been some worrisome connections between anti-gentrification activism and recent illegal arrests in Philly. Read some of the scoop here and here
new release from “invisible children” movement
If you’re interested in what’s happening in Uganda and Sudan, the “Invisible Children” documentary project just released another title, “Black is for Sunday.” I haven’t seen it yet, but I’ve posted a trailer below. These guys are incredible story tellers.
defining “christian”
The other day I asked my 10 year old neighbor kid this question: “If someone asked you what a christian is, how would you describe a “christian?” In his hands he held a T-rated Nintendo DS war game. He answered, “Well, somebody who asks forgiveness for their sins every day – ‘cuz we all sin [...]
reconciliation down under
What’s going on in Australia is the unfolding of a truly incredible story, and we hope that if it started down under it will work it’s way up. Australia’s Prime Minister Rudd delivered a history-making apology to the indigenous aboriginal peoples of Australia in Parliament on Wednesday. As the Australian government moves ahead in efforts [...]
shut in but not shut down
Ten minutes from the Olympic Village, police welded Pastor Hua Huiqi inside his home. They don’t want to let him out. What is going on? After multiple arrests and beatings, Pastor Hua is currently under house arrest and heavy surveilance by the PSB. His elderly mother has also been targeted and remains imprisoned. For more [...]
sheep in unlikely places
My neighbor girl up the street shuffles my deck a bit. Not even sixteen, she has displayed a compassion for the widow, fatherless, poor, and sick that is nothing short of life-giving. At an age when neighborhood who’s who should reign supreme, she steps into the home of the most marginalized and despised family on [...]
new trends in criminal justice
Sheriffs Train in ‘Restorative Justice’ Justice Without Jail Thursday, November 1, 2007 By Nick Welsh Santa Barbara Independent Nine deputies with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department underwent four days of intensive training in “restorative justice,” an alternative to the traditional “catch ’em, bail ’em, and jail ’em” approach to criminal justice. The training — led by [...]
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