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Archive for January, 2005
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Sunday, January 16th, 2005In honor of the Dr. Martin Luther King holiday, I wanted to excerpt Losing Races: A Dream Deferred on my blog. It tells of an experience I had in 2003 at a conference sponsored by one of America’s foremost evangelical ministries. Sadly, I endured many similar experiences in 2004. Please consider reading the piece in [...]
Dobson, Is This a Good Thing?
Thursday, January 13th, 2005[James] Dobson, perhaps more than anyone, will be most credible in leveraging evangelical power at the voting booth. That’s partly because, politics aside, he’s unrivaled as an evangelical leader. “Given Billy Graham’s advanced age,” says Richard Land, president of the 16 million-strong Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, “it’s James Dobson who’s stepped [...]
How to Infuriate Anti-Faith Folks
Wednesday, January 12th, 2005Say the following when you’re President of the United States: “I fully understand that the job of the president is and must always be protecting the great right of people to worship or not worship as they see fit,” Mr. Bush said. “That’s what distinguishes us from the Taliban. The greatest freedom we have or [...]
Was it Legit?
Monday, January 10th, 2005So I make this New Year’s Resolution about finding allies in unexpected places. Sounds nice. Makes for a fun post to write. Little did I know that less than a week later I’d be forced to practice what I preach in a meaningful way at a critical time. You may recall, our flagship Xcel After [...]
This is Old News, But I Blame Kruse
Monday, January 10th, 2005Had I had a blog in October, I would have written then about the little known man most singularly responsible for reversing the Curse of the Bambino and lifting the Red Sox out of their 86-year misery: Matthew Kruse. With the Sox down 0-3 in the ALCS to the Yankees, Matt preached “The Red Sox [...]
The Boden Center
Monday, January 10th, 2005The Bronx got a little touch of heaven his weekend. The Boden Center for Performing Arts officially launched in Castle Hill with a concert Friday evening (1/7) featuring jazzy reinterpretations of age-old standards, musical theater by a youth drama troupe called BAMSS (By Any Means Save Some), and modern dance performed by members of the [...]
Tossin
Monday, January 10th, 2005It’s after midnight and I can’t sleep, even though I have an early morning meeting in midtown tomorrow followed by a really long day. I’m trying to make sense of it all — not a smart thing to do in bed, especially when “it” includes everything that it includes. I can think, process, evaluate, assess, [...]
Rudy’s now a supremo blogger
Friday, January 7th, 2005Rudy Carrasco, as dedicated a blogger as any at Urban Onramps and the pressure point for me to join the blogosphere, was asked by Christianity Today to assemble a tsunami relief blog this week. Congratulations, Rudy!
Happy New Year?
Friday, January 7th, 2005What a first week for 2005. It started well, with Monday’s court hearing postponed to January 18. (More on that in a future post). But the intensity ratcheted up quickly. It’s now Friday and I feel like I’ve been dodging organizational bullets all week. But we’ve made it through, by God’s unwavering grace! Here’s to [...]
2004′s Xcel Top Ten
Monday, January 3rd, 2005[Sorry, these are not funny. Nor are they listed in any particular order. For more on Generation Xcel, visit here.] 1. Replicating “by youth for youth” as ten teens co-founded Xpress, our second after school program in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. 2. Graduating the inaugural class of 18 XL Service Corps members from Boot Camp, [...]
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