ELCA World Hunger

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...

On the eve of Lent (sigh… yes, it is my favorite church season…), some penitence is in order.  My last two posts are really revolving around the same issue.  The first asked the question of why it is so hard...

Now that I’m living down the road from the family farm, asked my mom in a phone call today, could I please do something about the fruit trees? Prune them, care for them, harvest them? Clear the weeds away from...

I was invited last week to join some colleagues at Episcopal Relief and Development as they hosted a luncheon for priests at endowed parishes.  I was invited in part as a thank you for my collaboration with them in preparing...