There are as many as 27-30 million slaves in the world today. Yes, today. Today, January 11, 2012, is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. But just one day is truly not enough. And, honestly, "merely" raising awareness is just not enough. Fortunately, this year President Obama declared all of January as National Human Trafficking Prevention …
Category: Justice
Am I an abolitionist?
Hi. I’m Dave. And I have 46 slaves working for me. Can I still call myself an abolitionist? Back in September, Slavery Footprint went live during the Clinton Global Initiative. The demand crashed their servers. I remember hearing about it in September and I’m pretty sure I even started through the process of calculating my …
Refuting the ridiculous
I first encountered the simple, terrific (and simply terrific) graphic below a few weeks ago via Slacktivist. I thought of it again the other day when this story came out. Here's the gist: One reason [Michele Bachmann's Iowa Campaign Chair, Tamara] Scott said that voters should oppose marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples is …
“The Right to Love”
I shared this video on Facebook yesterday via Tony Jones, but thought it was just too good not to also post here. Yes, I follow God in the Way of Jesus. Yes, I am an ordained reverend working as a pastor in a church. And, yes, I am convinced marriage must be fully opened to …
Minding the gap
That was one of my key take-aways (gotta love conference attendee parlance, right?) from the Leadership Institute at the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Kansas City last week: minding the gap. In one of his plenary addresses, Church of the Resurrection Senior Pastor, Adam Hamilton, used that phrase – minding the gap – to …
Fighting traffick
Learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow. – Isaiah 1:17 It’s been a little while since I’ve written about human trafficking, so I think it’s time to correct that. You won’t often find them on the front page, but mainstream media stories about human trafficking (which …
Reference. Context. Inspiration.
Like I said, it's a powerful, moving episode from the greatest TV show of all time. (Apologies to Seinfeld and Battlestar Galactica - you're both incredible, I love you and you round out the top three...but you can't touch number one.)
I can be bothered. I am bothered.
Earlier this week, my friend, Steve Knight, shared a link on Facebook to a blog post by Ed Cyzewski. (Good grief, that’s a tortured sentence. Such is the destructive power of social media.) Ed writes: We still haven’t sought the guidance of female leaders as if the integrity of our witness and the reflection of …
Money wins, natch
Over two weeks ago (which I'm pretty sure makes it about 100 in blog years), Tim Swanson wrote an interesting retrospective on "Boyz N the Hood" which appeared in the Chicago Tribune. (Weirdly, it doesn't seem to exist on the Tribune website.) What I found most interesting was this paragraph, which was the third-to-last one …
Making sense of this debt ceiling agreement?
I've been trying to follow this whole debt ceiling deal as much as possible. I've tweeted (and RT'd) about it quite a bit. So, is it a good deal? Should I feel pleased about it? I have no idea. I'm no economist and the reports are conflicting to say the least. President Obama offers this …
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All That I Can't Leave Unsaid 