- I Heart PiHop Ahhh, I love PiHop, Pasadena’s little prayer nook. What a beautiful community they’ve nurtured there. I would like to spend more time at PiHop in 2010. They just launched their nice new website and blog, check it out. I just read the first blog post about Jim Goll’s prophetic word to PiHop: “Help dig the […]
- Choicemobbed; or, How we can push for good with our buying power I recently was given some cash for a certain baby King’s birthday. I decided to use the money to buy some novels at Better World Books. BWB is an excellent alternative to Amazon.com, for many reasons. I’m so glad to have found them. Actually I found Better World Books, and then I choicemobbed them. You should […]
- How Much Would Someone Have to Pay YOU To Drink Dirty Water? Last week (you might have noticed from my psycho-live-blogging), I was at the Idea Camp DC, Justice Edition. I sat in on an unreal discussion that included an incredible non-profit you should know about: A Child’s Right A Child’s Right is a water relief organization that cares specifically for institutionalized children in countries such as […]
- Live Blog: Nuru International [Video only] “The Big Idea” – Nuru’s You Tube that’s gotten over 500,000 views [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yprNOFFeIq8&feature=related]
- Live Blog: Opportunity International Presenter: Kadita “A.T.” Tshibaka from Gambia Opportunity International www.opportunity.org Many years ago, a scholarship was given to Kadita to go to school in America. He had been selected out of 144 Gambians. He got his MBA and his undergrad in four years at Dartmouth! He worked his way up in Citibank. Ultimately it took him […]
- Live Blog: On the One Campaign to End Poverty Presenter: J. Mark Brinkmoeller www.one.org The One Campaign to End Poverty His role is to lead the team of NGOs and faith-based partnerships within One. There are about 150 organizations that partner with One to end global poverty. The power of One is in the collective weight of all its members: 2 million people. One […]
- Live Blog: Presentations from IJM , et al. Marta Urquilla www.nationalservice.gov Corporation for national and community service. Blair Burns Holly Burkhalter International Justice Mission www.ijm.org Trailer/Video from IJM: At the end of slavery [vimeo 5985149] Blair Burns It has been said: “If we release these people [these slaves] they’re just going to go back.” “In our experience, our staff works with people who […]
- @ The Idea Camp DC, Justice Edition Please forgive me for my absence. It is lame. I know. No excuses. Here I am on the East Coast at a collaborative conference called The Idea Camp. I’m going to live-blog parts of it, because this is like a greenhouse for idea-makers and people who want to change the world. There are over 70 […]
- Let There Be Peace in Iran We pray for peace and justice in you, Iran. This weekend as CNN remained silent while Iran was erupting into riots over the Tehran elections, Twitter proved (once again) to be the best source for real-time, from-the-source news: “For most of Saturday, CNN.com had no stories about the massive protests on behalf of Mir Hossein […]
- Re: Abortion / Poverty “New and compelling studies make the clear connection between abortion and poverty, with fully three-fourths of the women who have abortions saying that they just couldn’t afford to have the child. It will be a great day when both poverty reduction and abortion reduction become non-partisan issues and bipartisan causes.” –Jim Wallis God’s Politics Blog
- A Tale of Two Presidents Dr. Richard Mouw is Fuller’s president. He tends to say things in public about Jesus and America that makes a great deal of intelligent sense, because they echo the gospel. He makes me proud to be a Fuller student. George W. Bush is our nation’s president. He often says and does things that embarrass me […]
- If This One Laptop Per Child Thing Works… …I hope that someone will teach the children how to blog about their lives. Then, perhaps, we’ll hear their voices louder than before. (With the help of a few nice translators, of course.) I think that a child’s words over wires from distant lands could really change some things. The big idea is to put […]