Profiles
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. [...]
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 [...]
Commentary
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 [...]
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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