Ask the Question: When Are We Going to End Child Poverty in America?
“No child living in America today should have to worry about whether they’ll have a place to sleep at night or enough food to eat. [...]
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Toni Morrison
“When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.” --Toni Morrison [...]
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Our All American Gun Epidemic Continues to Threaten Children
It happened again. On August 31, a gunman in West Texas armed with a semiautomatic weapon killed seven people and injured 25 others. One of [...]
Read MoreNobel Laureate Economist Robert Solow’s Clarion Call to End Child Poverty
August 23 marks the 95th birthday of the great MIT Nobel laureate economist and 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Robert Solow. As family and [...]
Read MoreA Prayer to the God of All Children: PLEASE Stop Child Terror
O God of the children of Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala Of Syria, Nigeria, Liberia, Sudan and South Africa Of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Myanmar, [...]
Read MoreDisarm Hate
On August 2 I wrote about the relentless scourge of gun violence and the two children killed in Gilroy, California and asked: Why does gun [...]
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Protect Children, Not Guns
Will our nation ever decide to prioritize children’s lives over guns? Once again the headlines this week were all too familiar: “‘Nothing short of horrific’: [...]
Read MoreVaccines, Preventable Diseases and Children’s Health: A Call to Action
I’ve never forgotten my family’s sadness over the senseless death of my childhood neighbor little Johnny Harrington, who lived three houses down from our church [...]
Read MoreDr. Donald Stewart
I was devastated by the loss earlier this year of Dr. Donald Stewart. He and his wife Isabel Carter Stewart have been among my dearest, [...]
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Realizing a Dream for Our Children
Next week, clergy, seminarians, religious educators, community organizers, young adult leaders and other faith-based advocates in the intergenerational, interracial, multi-ethnic, ecumenical community pursuing justice for [...]
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