Who Packed Your Backpack?
Jul 12, 2017
"Backpack for Kids" is an effort in many cities to provide backpacks and school provisions to assist low-income families prepare for school in the fall. Ideally, each child on the rota receives a new backpack full of school supplies. A number of...
The Yoke That Frees
Jul 06, 2017
We talk a lot about freedom these days. Especially the week of Independence Day, we extol the virtues of living in a free society, one which offers us not only freedom of speech and religion but also promises to make us debt-free, pain-free...
Life Works Better with Participation
Jun 29, 2017
Most of us are not great athletes or musicians, but we've played enough sports and music to know that most of the time it's more exciting and life-giving to be a participant than a spectator. When I was a young priest in the early '80s, I played...
For the Love of Children and Young People
Jun 23, 2017
"Let the [young people] come to me," Jesus told his disciples, "and do not hinder them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs." (Luke 18:16)I have thought of that verse often as we have set out to re-shape and re-staff the...
Making Our Mark
Jun 15, 2017
On the island of Hispanola near the Haitian border, a team of professors and physicians waited in a grass hut by an airstrip for their plane to be prepared for a flight to Miami. As the passengers were boarding, a poor peasant woman approached...