How was Chicago?
How was Chicago? This is the number one question I have gotten over the last 12 days since I made the long drive back to Florida, spent 4 days at home, and then drove back up to begin classes for...
The Forgotten “R”
My sandals have new soles—and it took a village! I can’t thank my local shoe repair man. How he pays the rent is a mystery, when each time I offer him a pair of shoes to fix, he sneers at...
Take a right and head south. Waaay south.
I was amused – and not really in good way – last weekend by the large, chain grocery store near my house. I was there picking up a couple of things when I saw a “Locally Grown” sign over a...
What a summer!
It’s incredible how things go by so quickly…like this internship! I have enjoyed so much the opportunity to tell the story of ELCA World Hunger this summer. It has been fun to constantly work to be “in the know” about...
What does our food really cost us?
You see it in every grocery store, near the back in coolers: plastic-wrapped packages of ground beef. It looks even less appetizing on the front cover of TIME magazine. In the August 31, 2009 issue, article author Bryan Walsh confronts...
Stuff…or coffins?
Recently I jumped on one of our biggest national bandwagons: I rented a self-storage unit. As a person who tries to live simply, I’m a little ashamed to be among the one in ten American households with a storage unit....
Companies Making a Difference
I love the idea of voting with your dollar; the simplicity of saying yes or no to a company’s products and practices based on consumer demand. In today’s American society so much is driven by supply and demand. I originally...
More from Flathead Lutheran Bible Camp
The following was submitted by Brooke Ells at Flathead Lutheran Bible Camp. The camp, with the support of grant money from ELCA World Hunger, is involving kids in the fight against hunger. In the past few weeks we’ve harvested...
For All The Saints!
This being my last official day working for ELCA World Hunger, I thought it appropriate for me to offer a few words in this web dialogue. We have read much in this space about the people who benefit from...
Be The Change
Ok, so on occasion I’m one of those people who has to hear or see something more than once before it really clicks. This idea of “being the change” is one of those concepts that is being continually redefined in...