Five Years On, What Have We Learned?

It’s a truism to say that everyone remembers where they were on September 11 five years ago. This editor was at a hospital chaplains’ conference. The schedule collapsed along with the Twin Towers. We clustered around the TV set, appalled by what we saw. I...

Melting Pot, Salad Bowl or Rainbow

Living in New York City five years ago during 9/11, my wife, Ana, and I were witness to the reality that is America. Ministering to diplomats and internationals at the United Nations, we were part of a community where flags of 191 countries fly daily. We lived in a...

‘Little Miss Sunshine’

“Little Miss Sunshine” is a dysfunctional-family-on-a-road-trip movie. And there’s more going on here than in the “National Lampoon’s Vacation” movies. The story here is not about a vacation, but about trying to make a little...

Baptist Bloggers Can Help Make Poverty History

The One Campaign is a celebrity-centered effort to get the United States to allocate an additional 1 percent of the federal budget to fighting global poverty and AIDS, approximately $25 billion. It has captured the imagination and backing of younger Americans, many of...

Our Responsible Response

We are overwhelmed by statistics. This year, 11 million children under the age of 5 will die from preventable diseases. Forty million people are HIV positive worldwide. Those living in extreme poverty, which means that they survive on less than U.S. $1 a day, number...