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
Monthly Archives: March 2010
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
I was interviewed by the LaGrange Daily News the other day. I said to reporter Joel Martin that in some areas I would be viewed as quite liberal, while in other areas I would be viewed as quite conservative … Continue reading
We toured a Habitat for Humanity “ReStore” in LaGrange, Georgia, today. While there, I interviewed store employee Zach Maxon and store manager Donna Weathers. I learned the ReStore is a second hand store for construction material. … Continue reading