New Orleans The global crises in rising food prices makes it clear how far away we really are from a global solution or program to deal with hunger and subsistence feeding programs for the poor around the world. Coupled with the increase in fuel costs which in many places is driving the pressure on …
Category: Personal Writings
Global Poverty and Evangelicals
New Orleans Jim Wallis of Sojourners said something to me a week ago in Detroit that struck me as very interesting. Frances Fitzgerald, the esteemed author and sometime contributor to the New Yorker made a similar point in the recent issue in a piece called, “The New Evangelicals.” Jim was mentioning this …
Bechaks
New Orleans There is a story every step of the way it seems, but the debut performance of the two Indonesian bechaks representing ACORN International at the final march in Detroit on National City Bank was by all reports a resounding success and welcomed enthusiastically by the members. The picture with this blog shows …