Archive for July 28th, 2006
What Benedictines and YWAMers can teach us about spiritual formation
Friday, July 28th, 2006Q: “So I return to my original question: What would happen to your life if you lived in close geographical community and relationship with other people; if you lived in submission to authority; if you practiced silence and simplicity and discipline; if you regularly read the Bible and prayed and meditated on what you read; [...]
PS 34, Take 2
Friday, July 28th, 2006Last month, Jonathan paved the Adopt-A-School way at P.S. 34, the public school across the street from Generation Xcel. Yesterday, Dorothy Rivera joined him as a second math teacher at the school. A Cornell University graduate and lifelong New Yorker, Dorothy spent the summer before her senior year on Xcel’s staff and worked full-time after [...]
Can you afford the ghetto tax?
Friday, July 28th, 2006From Barbara Ehrenreich’s response to the question, “Can you afford to be poor?” A new study from the Brookings Institute documents the “ghetto tax,” or higher cost of living in low-income urban neighborhoods. It comes at you from every direction, from food prices to auto insurance. A few examples from this study, by Matt Fellowes, [...]
The Christian Post cares
Friday, July 28th, 2006Do you?