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 [...]
the economic stimulus act of ’08
I’m by no means an economist, but I suppose it doesn’t take an economist to ask questions about the Economic Stimulus Act of ’08. So we all get good-will money because things have been kinda rough, huh? Really, are blue-collar and no-collar America the real beneficiaries? Maybe the well-being of Wall Street (and the property [...]
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 [...]
barefoot revolution
After a week like this, there’s not a proverbial shadow of a doubt in my mind that there is a world groaning to see the children of God. The dehumanized, oppressed, and hopeless are looking for a revolution of hope. I went to Sammy’s house on Tuesday, but it’s not his house any more. His [...]