Dave Buerstetta on striving to do justice and love others while walking humbly with God
Note: This post was originally published on the Bread Blog. Have you ever been hungry? I mean, Really. Hungry. As in no-food-in-the-house-and-no-resources-for-getting-more hungry? I haven’t. Oh sure, there’ve been some months when expenses were bigger than income and I didn’t know how to pay some bills. But I’ve always had support - financial and otherwise …
Continue reading Deliberately making hungry people hungrier is unacceptable
This video is amazing! Not sure how long it has been around, but a friend sent it to me today and I had to share. Be sure to watch it all the way to the end. Admittedly, I'm not familiar with Stop the Traffik, but they seem to be doing good work in Europe. …
That's what I asked the children gathered at the chancel area for our weekly conversation, after I removed my robe and stole and put on my hoodie. Do I look suspicious? Do I look dangerous or threatening? Or do I just look like Pastor Dave with a hoodie on? They all thought I just looked …
You've heard the River Story, right? I first heard it from Jim Wallis, but it seems to be a popular parable. I heard it invoked again at the meeting of Bread for the World activists last week. It occurs to me that is the context within which I have heard it used: ending poverty. But …
Continue reading It’s still about supply and demand. #EndDemand #EndSlavery
At the end of last year I wrote about why my wife, Joann, and I support Bread for the World. Today, I think I can sum up our advocacy with and for Bread in two numbers: 2000 6% 2000 isn't much of a revelation. Along with others, I've been sharing that number for years. 2000 …
Big thanks to all who attended our anti-trafficking event this week! If you were there, I'd love to hear from you: What did you think of the film? What did you learn from the guest speaker? What questions were left unanswered? Share your thoughts in the comments! The event is over, but of course the …
I had my usual for breakfast: a bowl of Kashi Go Lean cereal with raisins. (I prefer it with blueberries or raspberries though.) No word on what President Obama - or anyone else present - had for breakfast at this morning's National Prayer Breakfast. (Not that I looked that hard, mind you. And by "not …
"I’m not seeing a lot of cases where there’s not coercion,” she added. “The average age where a girl is forced into prostitution is 12 to 14. And most of these 16- or 17 year-olds are being run by pretty vicious pimps." National Human Trafficking Prevention Month is winding down, but the actual work of …
I'm in the midst of planning a screening of the documentary, Call + Response, at my church. National Human Trafficking Prevention Month will be over by the time we show the film on February 15. But, at risk of being cliché, any time is a good time to fight slavery. While exact figures are exceedingly …
“...Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” We read those inspiring, challenging words from the prophet Amos this past Sunday. It certainly is a beautiful image - justice, as strong as the tide rolling in yet as refreshing as a cool stream, coming for those in need. But for we …
All That I Can't Leave Unsaid 