Friday, January 27, 2012
  • The entrance to the concentration camp Auschwitz I reads "Arbeit macht frei" -- "Work makes (one) free." (Wikimedia Commons)

    Remembering Auschwitz

    Friday, January 27, 2012

    Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp from Nazi control 67 years ago today. Ever since that day, Auschwitz has been a byword of horror for all of humanity, a warning of the depths of depravity to which even the most “civilized” people can descend. I visited Auschwitz in July 1995 after my sophomore year [...]

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  • Martin Luther King, Jr., with Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson. (Yoichi R. Okamoto via Wikimedia Commons)

    He Had a Dream

    Monday, January 16, 2012

    Parking meters in at least one major U.S. city were free today in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day., a holiday observed in all 50 of the United States since 2000. Because of today’s holiday, government offices were closed. Public libraries, which contain shelves of books devoted to King and the movement he helped lead, were closed, [...]

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  • Sharing Their Story is now Everyday Epics!

    New name, New Site, New Year

    Friday, December 30, 2011

    The faith-inspired non-profit initiative Sharing Their Story (STS) is, as of midnight on Jan. 1, 2012, now called Everyday Epics (EE). Our new name embodies our commitment to sharing the true story of need from around the world, as well as our own small attempts to write ourselves into the story of need around us. [...]

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  • Occupy Wall Street marchers on Sept. 30. (Thomas Good/NLN)

    2011 in Review

    Friday, December 30, 2011

    A big picture of the story of need for December 2011 (and for all of 2011), courtesy of blogs, articles and news services from around the world:   Highlights The Person of the Year according to Time Magazine is “The Protestor.” In the Middle East and North Africa, the “Arab Spring” protests freed the people [...]

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Profiles

Mother Teresa of Calcutta. (Wikipedia)
Dec
30

A Call Within a Call

Her first name – Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu — is little known. However, her second — Mother Teresa of Calcutta — is perhaps the most admired name in recent history. Although she died on Sept. 5, 1997, Mother Teresa is still associated by many with the highest ideals of service and compassion for the poorest of the poor. [...]

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Eight Dormish feet.
Dec
7

Our adoption story — From four to six

Before the beginning of Everyday Epics, when my family of four was living in Spain, we heard a story we couldn’t forget. And we became a family of six. The story we couldn’t forget is about children without parents, communicable disease and abject poverty, about people who have lost everything except their will to live. We [...]

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Commentary

A Port au Prince neighborhood in the aftermath of the earthquake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010. (UN photo/Logan Abassi, United Nations Development Programme)
Jan
13

Bearing witness

My friend Revi Sterling, director of the Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD) program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, sent out a heads-up Tweet yesterday, and because of it, I got to hear Juliana Rotich speak. Rotich, for those of you who haven’t heard of her, is a cofounder of the crowdsourcing platform Ushahidi, an increasingly influential [...]

George Raymond, Jr., was an 18-year-old activist arrested in Jackson, Miss., for his participation in the civil rights “Freedom Rides” in 1961. He later participated in the “Freedom Summer” of 1964.
Jan
9

First summer project

I first knew the term “summer project” as the shorthand way of referring to the summer mission trips I went on during my college days. The international student organization I went with on those trips founded its first “summer project” in Ocean City, NJ, in 1965 to train students in Christian evangelism and discipleship. I [...]

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