Posted on November 17, 2010
November Is Orphan Awareness Month
I just found out that November is Adoption Awareness Month. It’s fitting because I’ve just heard so many amazing adoption stories in recent weeks…
Continue ReadingI just found out that November is Adoption Awareness Month. It’s fitting because I’ve just heard so many amazing adoption stories in recent weeks…
Continue ReadingWhen I first saw someone Tweet about a new Sketchers shoe called Bobs, I thought it was a joke. The Bobs shoe is a spitting image of the very popular TOMS shoes right down to the cut, style, and tag placement…
Continue ReadingImagine if New York City’s taps went dry…what would we do? In this great video from Charity:Water, Jennifer Connelly walks to Central Park to get dirty water for her family as millions of mothers in Africa do every day…
Continue ReadingIf you’ve talked to me or followed me for any length of time you know that I get pretty passionate about a few things and one of those things is clean water. The fact that 1.1 BILLION people on this planet lack access to clean, safe drinking water is something that still boggles my mind…
Continue ReadingBut still, there is something about the use of those two words together – social + justice – that triggers different opinions and, in some cases, puts up walls…
Continue ReadingOver the past couple of months I’ve written a few posts like this. They’re the kind of posts you really don’t enjoy reading. The kind of posts that make you squirm and upset you…
Continue ReadingSouth Africa is in the final stages of preparation for the 2010 Soccer World Cup. It has been proposed that sex work be decriminalised before the World Cup, increasing the risk of women and young girls…
Continue ReadingMy friends over at City Community Church posted this spoken word piece from their service last weekend and I cannot stop listening to it. This powerful piece was written and performed by Mike Perez…
Continue ReadingI received a text Sunday night asking me to help promote a special event at Stuff Christians Like the following day. Jon and the SCL community wanted to raise $30,000 to build a kindergarten school in Vietnam. I love getting behind projects like this so I confirmed that I would help promote it on my blog…
Continue ReadingMy friend and fellow church-planter, Jason Salamun, recently launched a new web site called ThisMustChange.org based on a recent message he gave at his church…
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