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Wednesday, February 9th, 2005I never met him, but Rocky Stella is a friend of Jose and Mayra, so that’s good enough for me. This week’s New Yorker of the Week, named by NY1, founded and directs a soup kitchen at a Spanish pentecostal church not far from Xcel. Congratulations.
Billy Graham wants you
Tuesday, February 8th, 2005Friends and youth ministry colleagues: Get real for a second. Your youth are dying. Your neighborhood youth are dying even faster. Your church wants you to reach them. Your God called you to reach them. But you need help. So do I. This June a historic opportunity to reach your kids and mine, our city [...]
This is Deep
Tuesday, February 1st, 2005Thanks to Fritz Kling, who emailed me the following Nelson Mandela quote from his 1994 Inaugural Address. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be [...]
A little perspective
Tuesday, February 1st, 2005December’s tsunami claimed approximately 250,000 lives in one horrific afternoon, making it one of the worst natural disasters in history and triggering an unprecedented outpouring of global compassion. Yet in shear scope of impact, the tsunami pales in comparison to the global reach of HIV/AIDS. “Worldwide, 22 million people have died of AIDS, and today [...]
Things that make you go hmm
Tuesday, February 1st, 2005A pretty, 20-something aspiring actress was shot and killed by a thuggish posse of muggers last week in our neighborhood. Her fiance cradled her in his lap as she breathed her last breath. This murder was indeed a tragic crime. People should be outraged. But from the resulting press coverage one would think it is [...]
What Does it Mean to be Latino?
Monday, January 31st, 2005My dad goofs on me because I claim to be Latino. He’s got a point, I guess, because (a) I don’t speak Spanish (well), (b) I look like a white boy, and (c) his wife, my mother, is about as northern European as Americans come — her parents both immigrated to the States from Norway. [...]
“This is a nontraditional course.”
Thursday, January 27th, 2005So begins the course description for the Urban Community Development class I’m teaching this semester at Alliance Theological Seminary. It continues: “Equal parts graduate seminar, academic laboratory, and clinical practicum, our overriding goal will be to understand and apply strategic leadership principles in a real-world, urban community development context. While exploring the evolution of community [...]
Things We Don’t Talk About
Tuesday, January 18th, 2005Eric’s story is far more common than we care to admit. One in three girls and one in six boys are sexually abused in childhood, and twenty percent of women have had at least one incestuous experience before 18. Given these and other realities, what happens when God answers our prayers and His word, sharper [...]
Will the Real Men Please Stand Up?
Monday, January 17th, 2005My last shout-out of the evening in honor of MLK comes from the son of a civil rights radical, who ironically suffered a similar fate as Dr. King (although for apparently different reasons). The late Tupac Shakur, son of Afeni Shakur of the Black Panther Party, grew up never knowing his father. According to his [...]
In Memory of a Hero
Monday, January 17th, 2005Another year, another excuse to play. For many that’s all the third Monday of January represents. A day off. A break from everyday. An opportunity to sleep late, skip school without punishment, run errands, shop, whatever. But this day is much more than that. It reminds us each year of a modern prophet, a proclaimer [...]
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