We met with a group of Hispanic immigrant families who are all part of the Alterna Project in LaGrange Tuesday night. They live in a cluster of homes on Jefferson Street here as part of a “housing co-op.” … Continue reading
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We live in a hardscrabble urban area of Cleveland, Ohio. And a couple days ago, I broke up a fight between a couple kids out in front of our local Rec. Center. Now kids fighting happens. But down … Continue reading
I am currently working on a book about the somewhat hardscrabble urban neighborhood we live in. The other night I was writing about coaching a Rec. Center soccer team. Driving one of the boys home after a game, … Continue reading
I was talking with a Cleveland city school teacher yesterday who is also quite active doing social justice work with the Catholic Workers here. She said farmers will continue to grow coca plants in, say, Columbia “as long as … Continue reading
During a campaign leg in California, I told CBS News in Monterey that to heal the country, you have to heal the family. I am a former counselor who worked extensively with family system dynamics. If a child … Continue reading
We did a whistle-stop in Pandora, Ohio. A reporter from Fox News came to do an interview — straight from the “State of the University Address” at Bluffton University. To stay with that theme, I gave him an … Continue reading
We’ve come back home to Cleveland. I interviewed Athmo Bhandari in nearby Westlake, Ohio. He’s from India. He said the people of America are already at war, with themselves. That is, he said an extremely large portion … Continue reading
We went to an Assemblies of God Wednesday night service in Bellevue, Ohio, last night. Pastor John Ginty and his wife Jodi told me they used to be involved with the “Open Air Ministry” in LA’s Watts area. … Continue reading
In the last post, I talked about being at a “Prayer Service to Abolish the Death Penalty.” During the service, facilitator Tim Musser read the following: Capital punishment is not what Jesus taught. It is what he … Continue reading
Yesterday National Public Radio did a piece explaining that the homicide rate in America is increasing. Adding to those statistics was a murder last week about 200 yards from our place in Cleveland’s inner city. According to reports, it was … Continue reading