local museum display Continuing to catch up on the last few months… Part of our campaign is to ask people to consider, well, going back to the 1950’s. Not in every respect, like, for instance, Segregation. But back to a … Continue reading →
While listening to a recent news broadcast, I heard an alarming, yet understandable, statistic. One in seven American youth (or probably even more) has a mental health issue. Why it is understandable, to me, is because I have a background … Continue reading →
The other night our Wednesday Bible Study group volunteered at Youth for Christ’s “Rally Point” outreach in Lima. The YFC building is situated in the heart of a quite hardscrabble neighborhood. And kids here, many of them, are in tough … Continue reading →
My son Jonathan and I volunteered at Rally Point, a ” Youth for Christ Outreach” in Lima Wednesday evening. After the meal, we listened to a man from Guatemala give his “testimony.” He was on a trajectory to be a … Continue reading →
Wednesday night my son Jonathan and I played basketball under the lights in Lima, Ohio. That didn’t just happen. Several months ago, Jonathan and I volunteered for an evening at a Youth for Christ outreach called Rally Point. Following the … Continue reading →
education/psychology book An excerpt from this book notes that W.E.B. Du Bois, a philosophy professor, who was an avid proponent of civil rights, suggested that being “…Black in America” sometimes plays out in trauma responses that range from defiance, to … Continue reading →
Mobile Clinic …photo by Joe Catching up on the summer of 2025 (part 1)… I wrote a series of newspaper articles about Ohio Northern University’s Healthwise Mobile Clinics (the newest one is pictured here). It’s a rural healthcare safety net, … Continue reading →
Michael Zone Center, Cleveland (coach Joe) It’s “Juneteenth.” A holiday to commemorate the emancipation from slavery. Yet slavery persists, to this day. For instance, many Black youth are ‘slaves’ to transgenerational poverty loops in our inner cities. Our family moved … Continue reading →
High School Baccalaureate …photo by Joe The other night, our village high school held their Baccalaureate. It was small town (spiritual) Americana at its finest. Some students gave their testimonies, thanking God, their parents, their classmates… for help along their … Continue reading →
…photo by Joe Catching up on the last month… Fentanyl overdoses specifically, and illegal drug use in general, in America, are skyrocketing. We point fingers at the drug cartels south of the border, but, frankly, there are three fingers pointing … Continue reading →