We’re in Atlanta for the winter volunteering at the Open Door Community, an outreach to the homeless in the area. Recently our family was helping serve at a meal here for the people on the streets. One Hispanic … Continue reading
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I talked with Alan Jenkins who is involved with the Earth Covenant Ministry through his Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. (Earth Covenant focuses on trying to promote more environmental stewardship in the face of some tremendously bad environmental practices these … Continue reading
Besides volunteering at the Open Door Community outreach to the homeless in Atlanta this week (while looking at urban poverty issues), I’ve been doing research on various sets of other issues facing our country. At the forefront this week … Continue reading
A recap of the last year: While the other potential presidential candidates were positioning themselves in various ways for potential runs for Campaign 2012, we were already hard at the campaign. (I declared for 2012 five minutes after … Continue reading
Our family’s gift to Jesus this Christmas was a financial gift to Heifer International. We all kicked in some money to buy chickens for a Third World village. Heifer raises animals in America then ships them to these … Continue reading
It’s Christmas… In between campaign tours, we’re volunteering at the Open Door Community in Atlanta this winter, an outreach to the homeless here. (They take homeless people in here, but we are currently full.) This morning while … Continue reading
The New START Treaty has been ratified in the U.S. (still has to be ratified in Russia as well). The treaty will limit each country’s strategic nuclear warheads to 1,550, down from the current ceiling of 2,200. I’m … Continue reading
Our family is volunteering at the Open Door Community in Atlanta, Georgia, this winter. The Open Door is an outreach to the homeless. The last couple nights, because of frigid temperatures here, we have become a temporary night … Continue reading
We’re currently volunteering at the Open Door Community in Atlanta, while looking at urban poverty issues. The Open Door is an outreach to the homeless that includes some beds, meals, showers… The Open Door also has a health clinic … Continue reading
The Oct. 23 edition of Science Magazine noted that Germany is experimenting with a new type of traffic light system. Sensors are placed in approaches to traffic lights (from both sides). The light then responds, not automatically like … Continue reading