Archive for September 14th, 2007
The Paths of Resistance
Friday, September 14th, 2007Fascinating article in today’s New York Times about the affects of “affluent ‘immigrants’” on Xcel’s neighborhood, the East Village. FOR a long time the East Village was an urban frontier. The upper half of the Lower East Side, stretching from Houston Street north to 14th Street, and from Third Avenue and the Bowery to the [...]
Adopt-a-School comes full circle
Friday, September 14th, 2007On Wednesday, Generation Xcel and Abounding Grace celebrated a milestone in their relationship with PS/MS 34, the public school across the street from Xcel that both organizations have “adopted.” The school invited them to hold the first middle school assembly in over two years to introduce the murals they painted in the schoolyard this summer. [...]
Pastor Louis
Friday, September 14th, 2007Speaking of worshippers, my all-time favorite worship leader (and former Generation Xcel site director) is now a pastor, Pastor Louis Carlo. CoCo was formally introduced as Pastor Louis at Abounding Grace last Sunday, an appropriate promotion for a faithful and anointed leader. As a former boss and forever friend, I have seen Pastor Louis at [...]
Devotions with Bono …
Friday, September 14th, 2007… this morning, in bumper- to-bumper traffic on the BQE. First, the context. I have a mix CD of U2 music in my car that my son loves. Wednesday, he asked me to play Track 9, his “favorite song” (“Pride in the Name of Love”) for his friend Chris which is how the CD ended [...]
Friday Foto Finish
Friday, September 14th, 2007“It’s what in the heart that counts.”