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Urban Art and Community Action
touring the CINCO facility in Highland Park and meeting their amazing Executive Director, Martha Rivera. If you’ve never heard of CINCO please visit their website here and check out the amazing work their doing. This
Why You Should Eavesdrop on Your Neighbors
A collage of tidy older homes, hip coffee shops, ramshackle clapboard houses, and parks line the busy streets of the Boise neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. Boise is home to wise
An Ash Wednesday Meditation
Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, the first day of the season of Lent, which begins the long 40-day journey to Easter (not counting Sabbaths). I barely remember celebrating Easter growing up.
Talking about Human Trafficking
I’ve been invited by a couple of the faculty at the School of Religion at Loma Linda University to participate in a conversation being taped today for Loma Linda Broadcasting Network on
Hollywood Church awarded a $10,000 grant
Our church got some great news this week. In mid-October we submitted a 32-page grant application to the City of Los Angeles Board of Public Works. Every year the city
Bloggin’ the 28 – Baptism: Naturalization in a New Community
About two weeks ago I wrote a piece on the doctrine of the church. In that piece I argued that the church is an alternative community – a distinct polis – called
BRIEF REPORT: CANA INITIATORS GATHERING
For the past couple of days I’ve been in Washington, D.C. at the inaugural gathering of the CANA Initiative, representing Level Ground, among other things. We met the first night in the
2011 Year in Review
I can’t believe another year has passed into history. It’s been an incredibly busy twelve months, full of milestones and new ventures, for me and my family. This brief update
A Guide to the Health Care Reform Debate
Below is the context of an email that went out to over 1,200 clergy today, from the PICO National Network, signed by me and my friend, Rev. Rayfield Burns. I