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Our friend Roxanne now lives in Uganda working among the poor and hurting. No one saw it coming. She had a safe job at a prestigious Washington association. She had friends and went to a nice, safe church. But then came the announcement that she was leaving for Uganda. Recently she wrote: I’ ve been…

Ahhhh, YouTube:Sorry, but they don’t hold a candle to the original YouTube pair:…or this more recent duo:

When it comes to charitable giving are we more like: or: Well, apparently a bit of both: The truth is that Americans are generous when it comes to private aid, domestic or overseas. But the U.S. government is comparatively stingy when helping the poor, here and abroad. The disparity is nothing new. It’s a reflection…

From Aquaman: The Magi left Bethlehem and return home by another route, blissfully unaware of the Slaughter of Innocents their well-intentioned actions had unleashed. Today, we bask in the glow of our Christmas celebrations, and we are too often unaware of how our over-consumption has enabled evils, such as exploitation of workers and damage to…

Were the Magi the first disappointed Christmas gift givers? At the end of the day, after they had left their very expensive gifts, when they were heading home, do you suppose one of them turned and said, “You know, after the long journey, after all the preparation, after all the gift wrapping, I’m kind of…

I’m looking at the headlines from tomorrow’s papers – they are the same as any other day… a combination of politics and international affairs and economics. CNN and Fox and MSNBC are running similar stories – the Iowa countdown is on, the candidates were campaigning throughout the day. All this to say that our world…

My friend Martha Williamson, who was executive producer of Touched by an Angel, has started a video blog (it is actually much more than that) here on Beliefnet. She tells an extraordinary story about a night she sang “Oh Holy Night….”.

Beautiful…

From the Seattle Post intelligencer: “In the 50 years since the first African countries won independence, the world has spent $568 billion on Africa. Yet Africans are poorer now than a quarter century ago.” Why?

One of my dearest friends left DC some months ago. He is a great man in a world where good men are rare. I know of few people who leave DC with greater faith than they came here with. He is one of them. I miss him but then I saw this photo of him,…
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