A parable of relief vs. advocacy “Relief” refers to providing for needy people’s immediate survival needs — food, shelter and clothing,...

Choices and inevitability Contrasts and justice (Part 2) Related: Podcast — Contrasts and justice in downtown Baltimore | The Homeless...

And seeking courage. So, this fellow posts perhaps five or ten times a day, on FaceBook, anonymous memes accusing “them” of outrageous...

BK keeps the TV tuned to CNN. On Sundays, Fareed Zakaria’s GPS comes on when I’m there in the mornings before church, and is rebroadcast...

In the end, not much. I will examine these aspects in this order; these list items are all links: 1) Do for yourself … 2) Give up the...

… exact ly what the poor need to do for t hemselves. On the one hand, I will shortly dispel the notion that wealth means you don’t have...

Trump’s Budget Would Partly Replace Food Stamp Benefits With Canned Goods I respond to the first paragraph only. Nothing else. The first...

Miscellaneous notes about accepting bad feelings. [Second in a series.] One afternoon some years back, I hooked up with my bud Brian...

☺ Please donate! ☺ In a comment on a WaPo article about “Prosperity Gospel” televangelists, someone said: Jesus taught us to think of...

My response to Sunday’s sermon — and another event, after church — surprised me, and seemed to affirm that self-love is indeed the...

Three incidents from Sunday 09/18: (1) I caught the racial vibe as soon as she came in the room. (2) In the middle of worship, I looked...

This is an unscheduled post. The letter copied below from Carolyn Hax’s column for today  just blew me away, as pertinent to current...