Justice & Compassion

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Let Your People Vote

My own state requires that employers provide 2hrs off to vote, but some employers are saying they can’t comply, because they can’t afford to lose the coverage. Bullshit. If that’s the case, they can’t afford other national holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving. “I can’t afford it” is another way of saying “it’s not high among [...]

We Did It!

You’ll remember that back in April I told you about the New Futures Orphanage. Money was coming in so slowly that they had to eat it (as rice) and, especially with food costs being what they now are, they could never get together enough at once to buy farm animals and start sustainable agriculture. Their [...]

My brothers need $600.

We’ve got almost half of the $1000 needed to fund their orphanage food program. If ten people give $60, they’re funded! I first got involved with direct giving because of the New Futures Orphanage. I was scouring the net, looking for a way to reach the poor directly on limited funds, when I came across [...]

When the floods come…

…be their Ark. The Oxfam Emergency Fund: Donate to help victims of the Myanmar Cyclone. Those who are least like us, who are not our people, who are most distant from our daily cares, are our strangers. Love is tested not by it’s application to those who are most like us, but to those most [...]

What’s the difference between a week and a year?

If this week 40 people would give $25 each to New Futures Orphanage, instead of that same amount spread out over a year’s time, the children could buy chickens, fish, plants, and other sustainable food sources that would last over a long time, and wouldn’t have to eat the small increments of money coming in, [...]

I’m asking for your help.

I first got involved with direct giving to the poor because of the New Futures Orphanage. I was scouring the net, looking for just, real, and direct ways to impact the lives of the poor, with small funds. I came across a [ blog ] kept by an English teacher backpacking through Cambodia.
She’d come upon [...]

The Mines of Ghana are God’s Vineyards

Note: This letter was sent by way of participation in an Oxfam Campaign and borrows content from a sermon by Sociologist Anthony Campolo on corporate responsibility.

Golden Star Resources Ltd.
10901 W. Toller Drive, Suite 300
Littleton, Colorado
80127-6312 U.S.A.
Dear Mr. Tom Mair,
I read the reports from Oxfam (who is like the Mother Theresa of global care and [...]

Don’t Forget

Please do not stop praying for Kenya. The poor, involved in microbusiness there, have been decimated. It’s easy to suggest that somehow it’s their fault, but it isn’t. It’s not your fault when armed gangs burn your tents and shacks to the ground, with everything you have, and kill people all around you. Below is [...]

Letter About Prisoner Medical Care

Senator Constance N. Johnson
Oklahoma State Senate, District 48

Senator Johnson,
I am concerned about legislation introduced and planned for introduction in 2008 by State Senator Owen Laughlin of Woodward and others. The legislation concerns inmates in county jails and financial responsibilities for pre-existing medical conditions. Links at the bottom of this letter include the recent court decision [...]

To the United Nations

I’m writing to ask that you intervene early, not wait, in the erupting situation in Kenya. I am deeply and personally concerned.

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