Witness to Love

One of my favorite passages from one of my favorite books. Communion: The Female Search for Love by Bell Hooks. Witness to Love Women and men, girls and boys, must restructure how we spend our time if we want to be loving. We cannot be overachievers and perfectionist performers from kindergarten on in our public [...]

Perished and Present

Memorial Day – “a legal holiday in the U.S. in memory of the dead servicemen of all wars.” That’s how Webster’s defines Memorial Day, but is that what takes place? Has this day of remembrance become just another holiday; another three-day weekend; a day of forgetting? Memorial Day can be a powerful reminder and opportunity [...]

FC Barcelona – Fantastic !!!

Futbol Club Barcelona (FC Barcelona) did it again! They won the Champion’s league for the second time in 3 years! In one of the most difficult and highly respected tournaments of club futbol anywhere in the world, the best team in the world, pulled it off once more. Not only did they FC Barcelona win [...]

Opera’s Lessons

After hosting her TV show (The Oprah Winfrey Show) for 25 years, Oprah’s final show and words were as golden and true as they have been all along. If you took the words and teachings of Dr. Maya Angelou, Rev. Debra Johnson and President Barack Obama and rolled them into one, it would sound similar [...]

AI Turns 50

Amnesty International Turns 50 by Larry Cox (AIUSA Executive Director) May 28 is a day that changed the human rights movement forever. Fifty years ago one person – Peter Benenson – outraged by injustices he read about in the paper, asked others to unite with him in common action. He knew we could use our [...]

Ihangane – Current Projects

The Ihangane Project provides funding and programmatic support for projects that are generated from people living in underserved communities that are most impacted by HIV. Ihangane means ‘to be patient’ in Kinyarwanda, the native language of Rwanda. We believe that by supporting smaller projects that have been generated by those living in areas hardest hit [...]

Jackie Chan in Rwanda

Excerpt from ROP Stories. A blog for the Rwandan Orphan’s Project. Chan-tastic Posted on April 26, 2011 by Jenny Clover (This post was originally posted in Jenny’s Blog, A Fish Called Rwanda) Yesterday Sean and I watched in amazement at the reaction that the two magic words “Jackie Chan” evoked in the smaller boys at [...]

Quakers

The Only Alternative: Christian Nonviolent Peacemakers in America by Alan Nelson and John Malkin. (Excerpt) The Quakers The movement to create the Quakers – more formally known as the Religious Society of Friends began in England in the mid-1600s. A leather worker and shepherd named George Fox (1624-1691) led in developing this new Christian way [...]

Do you ever lie?

Excerpt from Feral by Deena Metzger Do You Ever Lie? The woman settled back again against the tree but more carefully this time. Careful, that is, about what was in her mind. And this led her to wonder what in fact was in her mind. Was there anything in her mind that belonged to her? [...]

Free Love & Free Clinics

Excerpt from biography of Dr. Arnold Leff. Paging Dr. Leff: Pride, Patriotism & Protest. Free Love & Free Clinics By the time Captain Leff arrived at Wright Patterson Air Base for his last year of military service, he was a changed man. He didn’t continue fighting city hall on base, but slowly worked his way [...]