ELCA World Hunger

By way of coincidence, this year Good Friday falls on Earth Day, a recently established global celebration of our island home.  While at first glance todays texts would appear to have nothing to do with commemorating this little blue and...

This last Sunday I hosted a global food distribution simulation with the youth of my congregation. Some had access to more than they could eat, some had access to enough to eat (although not quite as much meat as they...

I was reading Time Magazine a week or two ago, and it included a collection of articles on things that are going right in the world. Since that viewpoint sometimes seems in short supply, and since we are in the very hopeful...

Last fall my niece and I used a combination of bicycles, buses, and ferries to visit some friends about 20 miles away. Our multi-modal trip was so much fun that when we finished, Lily said, “I wonder if we could...

I recently had the good fortune to visit an ELCA World Hunger-supported project in the villages of  El Jardin and San Julian, Costa Rica. There we met Nehemias Rivera Medina, an unassuming and inspiring man who is teaching the residents of these communities...

Throwing my two cents into the David-Erin-Bob/Uncle Billy discussion, I’d like to post these musings: When we buy a car, we carefully research everything except our basic assumption: that we need one. Is there another way to move around the...

It does not take a lot to imagine the connections between conflict and poverty.  I have always thought of the impacts in terms of deaths, loss of productivity, damages to infrastructure, crippling of foreign trade and investments, increased disease, and...

Now that the calendar says it’s officially spring, one of God’s most precious gifts should regularly start falling from the heavens – water.  The Bible is full of references to water, and it is through water that we are baptized. ...

So a little conversation has begun…  Thanks to Erin for offering a response to my earlier posts (here, here, and here).  And now, if I may, respond to the response (which I hope will provoke more responses… to which I...

I’ve been thinking a lot about David’s last post (here), and have a few thoughts to share.  I don’t think it is realistic to expect people to engage deeply with every issue, even those that are important to them.  Many...