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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007Focus on HIV/AIDS – Urbana 2006
Culture of Compassion 2
Friday, April 20th, 2007Matt asks, in response to the post “A Culture of Compassion”: How could a culture of compassion have changed this [Virginia Tech] situation? Here are some initial thoughts. 1. Monsters like Cho don’t create themselves. Every hour it seems, more details about his troubled life emerge that reveal a tortured soul who was ignored, rejected, [...]
A Culture of Compassion
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007+ Thirty-two innocent victims. + Dozens wounded. + One crazed gunman. + Nearly eight years to the day after Columbine, another student at a different school commits the most heinous mass murder in US history. _____________________ On September 11, 2001, my father found himself at the scene of the worst terrorist attack in our nation’s [...]
The Story Behind the Red Letters
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007Sojourners and other progressive Christian leaders have begun calling evangelical social justice types “Red Letter Christians,” in tribute to the recorded words of Jesus which are commonly printed in red. So you can imagine my surprise when Mike O’Neil — executive director of Hope for New York and former director of Kids with a Promise [...]
Reflections from charity:ball
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006This event was a Christmas fundraiser for charity:, a global relief organization founded earlier this year by Scott Harrison. As a New York City club kid and party promoter for ten years, Scott lived the fast life and built a who’s who contact list of celebs and high society. But nothing could shake an emptiness [...]
Carrying your
Friday, December 15th, 2006Andrew Jones (a/k/a Tall Skinny Kiwi) is a leading voice of the global emerging church and an extraordinary blogger. Last month, in the wake of the Ted Haggard scandal, he posted a beautiful reflection on the scandal’s impact on Haggard’s children and on the Church’s duty to help them shoulder the burden of Haggard’s shame. [...]
The other (1) John 3:16
Monday, October 2nd, 2006Who hasn’t seen the ubiquitous John 3:16 signs at sporting events and on tracts around the country? But how many times do we see 1 John 3:16 broadcast? “This is how we’ve come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life for us. This is why we ought to live sacrificially for our fellow [...]
The Message on Justice
Thursday, September 21st, 2006… People hate this kind of talk. Raw truth is never popular. But here it is, bluntly spoken: Because you run roughshod over the poor and take the bread right out of their mouths, You’re never going to move into the luxury homes you have built. You’re never going to drink wine from the expensive [...]
We are the body
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006So I’m watching this slideshow on Today at the Mission’s blog from Canada, and had to do a double take because my brother Jamie makes an appearance at 3:07 (on the right). I have no idea who JDWoody76 is or how he got Jamie’s picture (from the late 90s at a lower Manhattan street outreach), [...]
Biblical Compassion: Suffering Together
Friday, August 4th, 2006… if we open up those Bibles the meaning of “compassion” becomes clear; after all, Hebrew and Greek words commonly translated as “compassion” are used over eighty times in the Bible. Their most frequent use is not as an isolated noun but as the culmination of a process. Repeatedly, in Judges and other books, the [...]
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