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The Magic of Gifts That Keep on Giving – Part 3

 The gifts of understanding, friendship and respect for those whose religion and nationality differs from our own have never been more important than they are right now when the actions of the man in the white house are saying to the world that nobody matters but Americans. Make no mistake about it. We must extend a helping hand and the gift of caring to the strangers in our midst to let the   [Read More …]

Justice Giving: An Opportunity for Reflection

Event Date: May 17, 2018

Faith and Money Network Workshop, May 17, 6:30-8:00 pm Justice Giving: An Opportunity for Reflection Potters House, Washington DC Register here Can our giving help create justice? How and to whom we give matters, of course, but the impact of our giving is also determined by our intentions and approach. As people of faith and values, we are challenged in a consumer culture to align our   [Read More …]

THE MAGIC OF GIFTS THAT KEEP ON GIVING Part 2

Over 2,000 verses in the Bible wake us up to issues of poverty and justice. How we respond to them is our option and our responsibility. The start of a new year is the perfect time to discover the magic of gifts that keep on giving and to ask, “What need really speaks to my heart?” It is also the perfect time to plan your giving for 2018. We’re avoiding the term RESOLUTION here as over the   [Read More …]

THE MAGIC OF GIFTS THAT KEEP ON GIVING

There is no way any of our gifts could compare to the gifts God has given all of us – the gift of life, the gift of an incredibly beautiful, magical, mystical world, and most of us, the gift of his son Jesus Christ. But each of us – you and I and everyone else - can give gifts that keep on giving the way God’s gifts to us do. What are these gifts that keep on giving?   Some are donations made   [Read More …]

A LESSON FROM MY FATHER’S STORY

My father hoped to do well enough to provide a comfortable life for his family and to enjoy a measure of prestige in the process, but it wasn’t to be. This is his story and mine - the story our family lived. After serving 20 years in the Air Force as a B52 bomber pilot, he failed an eye exam that kept him from becoming a commercial pilot for Eastern Airlines. As a result, all the prestige of   [Read More …]

THANKSGIVING – TWICE OVER

Where were you when hurricane winds devastated the entire island of Puerto Rico, significant sections of Houston, Texas and portions of Florida south from Miami through the Keys? Did you watch in horror as wildfires swept through the wine country north of San Francisco, leaving behind an unrecognizable barren path of ashes where thousands of homes and businesses once stood? This year, more than   [Read More …]

Trip of Perspective Haiti

Event Date: June 22, 2018

On this trip to Haiti we will meet dedicated, grassroots leaders who are building inspiring, liberating community-based responses to systemic challenges. Hosted by our Haitian partners. We will learn about Haiti’s culture, its history and policies in relation to the US, and experience solidarity and accompaniment in action. Part of our time will be spent in a rural community, living in the homes   [Read More …]

WHAT IF – AN IDEA TO PONDER

In an ideal world no one would go hungry because everyone would have enough to eat, no one would get sick because their drinking water was contaminated, and no one would die from exposure to heat or to cold.  Yesterday the long-awaited Republican tax plan was revealed and, as expected, it favors businesses and the wealthy. MSN reported that, not surprisingly, it “contradicted Trump’s rhetoric   [Read More …]

LESSONS FROM THE HOMELESS

These days it seems like the homeless are everywhere: camping in our parks, living beneath bridges, sleeping over sidewalk grates on cold winter nights, and rummaging through garbage cans on city streets. How many of us look at them and wonder whether they are really homeless or professional beggars. It is hard, really hard, to see them as individuals whose needs mirror ours. Esther Elizabeth   [Read More …]