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Monday, March 19th, 2007A Conversation to/with the Next Generation of Leaders CCDA 2005, featuring Jeremy Del Rio and Rudy Carrasco toys adultbreast girlsblonde lesbianstight assporn animalnude boyszoo sexgirls naked Map
Start Something
Thursday, November 9th, 2006“There comes a moment when you’ve talked a matter through and it’s time to make a decision. Either you do it or you don’t. At the conclusion of our conversation, we determined we had everything in place to make a reasonable attempt. Only one thing eluded us: The guts to move forward.” Article. I first [...]
Props to Bart Campolo
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006Hanging out at CCDA with Eric Iverson of Youthworks, a social justice champion and new friend for the past year, he shared how he grew up in the same youth group as Chris Brooks (excellent youth ministry strategist and family life pastor at River City Community Church) and Efrem Smith (one of the great preachers [...]
Must See: Akeelah and the Bee
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006Buy this movie and show it to every young person, urban or otherwise, and every hard-hearted adult who needs some inspiration to care about kids.
The Cry of a Generation
Friday, July 21st, 2006My friend Doug Stringer sent the following story in his most recent newsletter. ____________________ “There are times when I feel like the title ‘father’ is the worst name God could have given Himself. What a stupid idea, when ‘father’ means rejection in my world.†It was late Sunday night and I had this message from [...]
All things work together
Friday, June 16th, 2006Last December, the NFL family was rocked with the news that the Colts’ classy head coach Tony Dungy’s son James had committed suicide. (I blogged about it here and here.) In the months since then, Coach Dungy has coped with the tragedy with his usual grace and dignity. ESPN chronicles his story in a moving [...]
Congrats to Jonathan for Taking Adopt-a-School to a Higher Level
Thursday, June 15th, 2006At this year’s Celebration of Xcellence (r.) In April we celebrated my brother Jonathan’s selection as a teaching fellow with the NYC Department of Education. Today, he received two (2!) job offers from his first choice school, PS 34, a historically underperfoming elementary and middle school located on Avenue D, directly across the street from [...]
Caleb’s Father’s Day Promise
Thursday, June 15th, 2006“Children without fathers need men who love Jesus to practice what God the Father teaches us.” Article.
Innocent Voices – Coming October 14th to select cities nationwide
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005Today, over 300,000 children fought as armed soldiers in forty countries, a global epidemic that shames all of us. Innocent Voices, directed by Luis Mandoki, tells their story through the eyes of Chava, a 12 year old boy compelled into military duty during El Salvador’s protracted civil war in the 1980s. I had the privilege [...]
The last word on a great leader
Sunday, August 14th, 2005“He was not a brilliant strategist or tactician, not a gifted orator, not an intellectual. At several crucial moments he had shown marked indecision. He had made serious mistakes in judgment. But experience had been his greatest teacher from boyhood, and in this his greatest test, he learned steadily from experience. Above all, [George] Washington [...]
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