Wednesday, February 22, 2012
  • Participants listen during an award presentation at the Faith Advocacy Day 2012 held in the History Colorado building in downtown Denver. (Marrton Dormish)

    Thoughts on advocacy and faith

    Tuesday, February 21, 2012

    Yesterday, a friend and I joined about 150 local clergy and community leaders at the Faith Advocacy Day organized by Lutheran Advocacy Ministry-Colorado. Co-sponsors of the gathering included the Jubilee Ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado, the Colorado Council of Churches and Colorado Interfaith Voices for Justice. The half-day event focused on how people of [...]

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  • At a spring 2009 seminar, young Israelis and Palestinians gathered for dialogue and team building challenges led by the organization Seeds of Peace. (Seeds of Peace via Wikimedia Commons)

    “Us” versus “Them”

    Monday, February 13, 2012

    My alma mater is part of a heated rivalry that extends back to the days of the Civil War (or as my friend from Mississippi recently called it, “the War of Northern Aggression”). It is so heated, in fact, that it was recently recognized by ESPN as the college basketball rivalry that best incarnates “hatred.” Browse nearly any [...]

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  • The unassuming Church of Sant'Egidio in Rome, Italy, namesake of the worldwide Community of Sant'Egidio. (Wikimedia Commons)

    The Gospel and Freedom

    Saturday, January 28, 2012

    Some stories worth sharing involve more than one individual or one family. Sometimes they involve a community, and a untraditional one at that. I first heard about the Community of Sant’Egidio from the audio version of Thomas Cahill’s Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus, published in 1999. Its cassettes–yes, cassettes, not [...]

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Profiles

Eight Dormish feet.
Dec
7

Our adoption story — From four to six

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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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Most New Orleans residents evacuated the city before Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005. Here, some of the survivors who stayed behind, line up to get into the Louisiana Superdome, a designated emergency shelter. (Marty Bahamonde, FEMA, on Wikipedia)
Nov
1

Blown to Broomfield

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Note: The names of the people profiled in this story have been changed. Mercy Johnson survived Hurricane Katrina and the 10 feet of water flooding the streets of New Orleans’ Eighth Ward by staying on the roof of her one-bedroom home for two days. Mercy, 27 at the time, recalls what it was like before [...]

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Commentary

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

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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 [...]

Memorial in Philadelphia, Miss., for three slain civil rights workers.
Jan
9

Not yet a footnote

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I came across a startling fact yesterday in doing some research for an upcoming profile of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., – some suspects in Civil Rights-era killings have yet to be successfully prosecuted. In a Nov. 28, 2011, blog post Jerry Mitchell, an award-winning investigative reporter for the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger, said that included two living [...]

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