Monday, May 21, 2012
  • The Sweep Report by Marrton Dormish, with Karen Smith. (Cover design by Laura Vincent, BOSS Printing. Cover photo by David R. Jennings, Broomfield Enterprise.)

    Sweep Report Published!

    Friday, May 18, 2012

    The Sweep Report: A look at key indicators, trends and needs in Broomfield, Colorado, USA, is now available online! It’s the first-ever publication of its kind, devoted specifically to the City and County of Broomfield, Colo., and is the fruition of more than a year of interviews, research, writing and editing. I created The Sweep [...]

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  • A Zambian Epic in Pictures

    Friday, May 18, 2012

    Photographer Thomas Herrick of Thornton, Colo., created the following videos from footage he took during his March trip to Africa, where he documented the story of Global Orphan Relief (GO!), a grassroots non-profit that operates two homes for orphaned children in Zambia. First, watch Scott Nordstrom, founder and CEO of GO!, and Mike Dee, GO! board member [...]

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  • The front signage of a new Family Medical Center in Broomfield, Colo. (Marrton Dormish)

    Reid’s Healthcare Mirror

    Friday, May 11, 2012

    In order to better conceptualize the approach and function of the U.S. healthcare system compared to others around the world, consider the following summary based on journalist T.R. Reid’s The Healing of America. There are four basic health system models in use today: The Beveridge Model — Funds health care through taxes so that patients never [...]

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  • Taken on a bridge in Hungary. What will our response be to the needs of others? (Brian Stumpe)

    Latest News on The Story of Need

    Wednesday, May 2, 2012

    We use our Twitter feed to monitor dozens of local, national and international news sites, press releases and blogs for current links that represent the many complex and personal dimensions of the story of need. But you don’t have to be on Twitter to follow our feed! Why? Because we republish our feed’s most recent items in the [...]

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Profiles

The unassuming Church of Sant'Egidio in Rome, Italy, namesake of the worldwide Community of Sant'Egidio. (Wikimedia Commons)
Jan
28

The Gospel and Freedom

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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Martin Luther King, Jr., with Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson. (Yoichi R. Okamoto via Wikimedia Commons)
Jan
16

He Had a Dream

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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Commentary

A woman holds a sign during a Barcelona demonstration on International Women's Day in 2009. The sign reads "Invisibility is the cancer for immigrant women." (Wikimedia Commons)
Mar
19

“Us” v. “Them” Part III

When I first met my soon-to-be step-father-in-law on his farm outside my then-girlfriend’s small Missouri hometown, the first thing he said to me was, “You’re not from around these parts, are ya? You’re a Yankee.” Having grown up in Denver, Colo., I had never thought of myself as a Yankee before, so I wasn’t quite [...]

Watoto traveling bus
Mar
11

Watoto Children’s Choir

My family and I got a taste of Africa this morning through a special performance by the Watoto Children’s Choir at Living Hope Community Church in Westminster, Colo. At the invitation of our friends Gregg and Stephanie Scarato, we and a group of our friends and their kids listened to a group of about twenty Ugandan [...]

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