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
Yearly Archives: 2010
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
Ok, time to call a spade a spade… During our prayer time this morning, I was reading the kids some writings of Dorothy Day (co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement). At one point, she wrote that people in … 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 national debt is now $13.7 trillion. The interest on it is approximately $387 billion, a day. The package that was just tentatively approved in D.C. will cost about $900 billion more over the next two years … 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
We’ve stopped at the Open Door Community in Atlanta. This is a Catholic Worker House that does outreach to the homeless. Liz and I will be on staff here for several months, while also looking at urban … Continue reading
After Belmont Abbey College, we headed out of North Carolina, through the northwest tip of South Carolina and crossed the border into Georgia at Lavonia (pop. 1,845). And all (well, most ) of the 1,845 residents were on the … Continue reading