I am an activist
From my friend Adam Taylor, former Political Director at Sojourners, former White House Fellow, now Vice-President of Advocacy at World Vision: Social and political activism needs a better public relations manager. Activism is all too often associated with derelicts, rabble-rousers, radicals and extremists. This is in part because activists often defy authority, go agains the …
Mumford & Sons – Come, Thou Fount
One of my favorite bands (Mumford & Sons) playing one of my favorite hymns (Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing). Enjoy.
Two presidents on American priorities
President Franklin D. Roosevelt: The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. Second Inaugural Address; January 20, 1937 President Dwight D. Eisenhower: Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket …
The love of God >>> everything else
Brennan Manning, who never ceases to challenge me with reminders of God: If you took the love of all the best mothers and fathers who have lived in the course of human history, all their goodness, kindness, patience, fidelity, wisdom, tenderness, strength, and love and united all those qualities in a single person, that person’s …