I talked with Brandon Hollis from the Georgia Justice Project while in Atlanta. This is a non-profit organization that was started in the late 1980s. They currently represent 30 prisoners spread throughout 22 prisons in Georgia. The … Continue reading →
Today my wife Liz gave a talk to a gathering at the Open Door Community in Atlanta. She talked about the history of the Catholic Worker Movement. (The Open Door is patterned after Catholic Worker Houses.) … Continue reading →
At the Open Door Community in Atlanta, Georgia, there is a “foot clinic” every Wednesday evening. Volunteer medical students, nurses and the like, give homeless people massaging foot baths, trim toe nails, medicate sores, cut out corns… It’s … Continue reading →
We continue our Georgia On My Mind Tour (Is that original, or what?) We are at the Open Door Community in Atlanta for this phase of the tour, as we continue to look at urban poverty issues. The … Continue reading →
I gave a talk to some 40 people at the Open Door Community in Atlanta, Georgia, today. The gentleman who introduced me, prefaced the talk by reading from Proverbs 30: 7-9. The crux of the passage … Continue reading →
We have come to the Open Door Community near the heart of urban Atlanta, Georgia, to look at poverty issues. The Open Door is a Catholic Worker Community that takes in the homeless and also provides regular meals and … Continue reading →
In remembrance of the anniversary of Bloody Sunday 1965, which was honored today in Selma, Alabama, my son Jonathan and I went to the King Center in Atlanta. A tribute to the life of Martin Luther King Jr., the … Continue reading →
I met with Alterna’s Anton Flores one more time before leaving LaGrange. (Alterna, again, is a small community of Hispanic immigrants living in a cluster of homes on one block here.) As part of Flores’s work with Alterna, … Continue reading →
Three young couples from Texas, Iowa and Ohio, respectively, have come to LaGrange, Georgia, as part of a MissionYear Project. They are volunteering for the Alterna Community here, which is a cluster of homes set up for immigrant … Continue reading →
I met with Hispanic social activist Anton Flores for a second time Wednesday in LaGrange, Georgia. He said a key to the immigration issue is looking at the systemic issues behind the poverty and violence that drives many people … Continue reading →