“A CALL TO END CHILD POVERTY NOW”
America is going to hell if we don’t use her vast resources to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to [...]
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“HOW TO END CHILD POVERTY FOR 60 PERCENT OF POOR CHILDREN AND 72 PERCENT OF ALL POOR BLACK CHILDREN TODAY”
Poverty hurts children and our nation’s future. This stark statement is backed by years of scientific research and the more we learn about the brain [...]
Read MoreCelebrating Dr. King Through Serving
“If you want to be important—wonderful. If you want to be recognized—wonderful. If you want to be great—wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest [...]
Read More“EVERY CHILD DESERVES A FAIR CHANCE”
“A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory [...]
Read More“PRAYERS FOR OUR CHILDREN FOR THE NEW YEAR”
In a world rife with war, religious, racial, gender, sectarian, and political strife, when so many children lack safety, enough food, shelter, health care, and [...]
Read More“PONDERING THE DEEPER MEANINGS OF THIS HOLY SEASON”
After all the shopping and preparation for celebrating Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa, I hope we will stop and sit and think more deeply about their [...]
Read More“THANKS TO FOUR BRIGHT RAINBOWS IN OUR NATIONAL CLOUDS”
As 2014 draws to a close, I wanted to celebrate four great rainbows for justice who passed away this year but left us a [...]
Read More“NEEDED: A TRUE DIVERSITY MAP FOR AMERICA”
Sometimes childhood experiences motivate a lifetime of extraordinary work. That is certainly true for Georgetown University Law School professor and bioethicist Patricia King, a brilliant [...]
Read More“A TIME FOR PRAYER, THANKSGIVING, DISCERNMENT AND STRATEGIC NONVIOLENT ACTION”
In the wake of Ferguson and a series of young Black male deaths at the hands of official law enforcement personnel (and one self-appointed neighborhood [...]
Read More“LEARNING TO LOVE WHAT YOU HAVE”
In a season focused on gratitude, 17-year-old Monica Chica has an attitude about choosing to be grateful that’s wise far beyond her years: “The most [...]
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