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
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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
In Waco, Texas, I gave a talk at St. Jerome’s Church. I said that we so often get puffed up with patriotism here; but Mother Theresa once said America was the most spiritually poor country she’d ever visited. A … Continue reading
The week before last we were at Jubilee Partners looking at refugee issues. (Jubilee is a Christian community that takes in refugees from all over the world.) Besides the refugees, Jubilee has full time staff and volunteers. … 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
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
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
The other day I listened to part of a talk to some Montessori students who were on a field trip to the Peter Claver Catholic Worker Houses in South Bend, Indiana. The Catholic Worker Houses here are a cluster … Continue reading
I’ve been in Cleveland the past few weeks readying for our next set of tours and doing some writing projects. Some of the writing has been about Bruce Stalla, 54. He was homeless in Cleveland for ten years. … Continue reading