Following Jesus in rejecting empire
I was at an international conference where an African speaker said, “Why are Americans so interested in coming to Africa to solve poverty? Poverty is not a problem. Greed, now that’s a problem! Maybe Africans should come to America to help them solve greed.” I love provocative statements like that. I know that poverty is…
It’s very important to me that ones disability does not dictate ones life.
He didn’t lift his feet, he slid them, as if skating on the concrete sidewalk. Maybe he was old, but I couldn’t tell because he looked like a cave man, and it’s hard to read a cave man’s age. Eyes looked out from sunken pools in his head, staring down at the ground where he…
In preparation for this podcast I watched a 2009 episode of Gangland about the Fresno Bulldogs. It was a disturbing show. The callous disregard for human life, the exaltation of violence and the desire amp up absolute fear in the general population made the Bulldogs a kind of urban terrorist organization. But watching their violent…
The shame of poverty, gang violence, Jim Crow in our corrections system, retributive violence, and redemption. Ivan talks about how his years in the Bulldog gang and in the penitentiary has shaped his view of reality.