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Kristen Byrdum- stayed at my sister’s housing co-op in Madison, WI and was killed in New Orleans just a week or two after she left. If you go here and read journal entry 4 you can hear about her time in Madison. Here is the newspaper article on her death.
Her death is bothering me a [...]

photo journalism

This “Eye on the Earth” series of photos made me so sad. It’s worth a look, though.
I hate living in a country where we consume and don’t even think about what we are doing. As most of you know, the environment weighs on my heart. I often wonder if things would be different if we [...]

Christian Ethics in Adbusters

I love reading Adbusters magazine because it offers a different voice that I don’t often hear in mainstream media, and although a subscription is quite an investment, it is worth it.
I was just reading issue #80, “The Freedom from Want”, and came across something surprisingly familiar… Christian Ethics.

Why Mama Drews is Amazing

Mama Drews (my husband’s mom, as she is affectionately known by our friends, but is never called to her face) is amazing. Why?
Because she is one of the most generous people I know. Because she always thinks of you and misses you. Because she will fill up the fridge with your favorite food and cook [...]

thoughts on giving and receiving

I recently finished the book “Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace” by Miroslav Volf. Volf explored how we can be givers and forgivers in our current culture that is largely lacking grace. His thesis was that since God is a giver and a forgiver, Christians should be, too, and [...]