My heart is moved by all I cannot save…
A beautiful poem by Adrienne Rich sent to me from one of my traveling partners, Kim Winchell: My heart is moved by all I cannot save,so much has been destroyed.I have to cast my lot with thosewho age after age,...
YAGM application deadline March 1
Below, find a time-sensitive announcement from Anne Basye in ELCA Global Mission. Speaking of Global Mission, on Monday, February 2, I will assume a new position as assistant director for Global Mission Support (www.elca.org/globalmission/support). I’ll keep the same e-mail address...
Eat Less Meat
As you’ve no doubt been reading, David Creech is in Nicaragua learning about the effects of climate change on life. In keeping with that theme and bringing it closer to home, I have a suggestion: eat less meat. It’s not...
On My Way Home
I am in the airport waiting for my flight back to the United States. My experience down here in Nicaragua has energized me for my work and given me new perspective on the challenges we face. I am sure that...
“You always have the poor with you…”
Mark 14:7 has always been one of those really problematic verses for me. In this short verse, it appears as though Jesus is rather pessimistically predicting that there will always be poor people (and he may very well be). I...
“Thanks for the tarps.”
I just returned from the Atlantic coast, where we visited two communities impacted by Hurricane Felix in September of 2007. The experience was, to say the least, heart wrenching. On the NW coast, in spite of the poverty we saw,...
Back from NW Nicaragua
I just returned tonight from NW Nicaragua where we saw firsthand some of the impacts of climate change on poverty and a couple of the projects that ELCA World Hunger has supported. We also had the chance to talk to...
David Beckmann at Bethany Lutheran in Denver
If you live around Denver or will happen to be there on February 8, 2009, be sure to worship at Bethany Lutheran Church (technically in Cherry Hills Village). David Beckmann, President of Bread for the World, will be preaching at...
Nicaragua Update
My time in Nicaragua is off to a phenomenal (and frenetic) start. Today, we oriented ourselves to Nicaragua and the ways in which climate change is already impacting the people of this small (and vulnerable!) country. Our first meeting of...
Nicaragua and Climate Change
I just touched down in Nicaragua, where I will be for the next 10 days looking at the impact of climate change on hunger. We will be, among other things, speaking with certain officials in governmental posts, meeting with various...