Encounter. New York City. Times Square. Hungry. “Welcome to McDonald's, CAN I HELP YOU!" said the young lady behind the counter as she rolled her eyes. It wasn't spoken as a question, but as an expression of anger and annoyance for having her life interrupted. As a Neuyorican, a bicultural [...]Read More
Birmingham Yet?
Sheriff Joe Arpaio is proud of his tent city. On his Web site for reelection as sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, he touts the camp as a cost-effective, “austere but humane” solution to jail overcrowding in a county that aggressively rounds up undocumented immigrants—and that, under SB 1070, [...]Read More
The Mayor Moves In
An Interview with Wally Bryan of Challenge House For most of the 1990s, Wally Bryan was mayor of Hopkinsville, Kentucky. After the turn of the millennium, he was in semi-retirement, living in what he calls the outer-city, and feeling “a little adrift.” He read Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life and [...]Read More
Rural Justice (Part 2)
Two practitioners share the ins and outs of doing CCD in rural America [In the first part of the series], we interviewed Rev. Tim Olsen of Summit House, part of Sioux Falls Seminary in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. [For part two], we talked with Pat Vander Pol, ministry coordinator of Justice for All [...]Read More
Rural Justice (Part 1)
Two practitioners share the ins and outs of doing CCD in rural America [In this two part series], we ask two rural CCD practitioners—Rev. Tim Olsen of South Dakota and Pat Vander Pol of Iowa—about their ministries, their areas, and about living out the 3R's. We also posed the ultimate question: [...]Read More
In God We Really, Truly Trust
Haiti after the earthquake Hope struggled against despair in the Haitian community where Janet Dorrell was volunteering at a medical clinic after the January 2010 earthquake. People "were wounded, they were injured, they had broken legs, they had lost limbs, they were trying to take care of each [...]Read More
Develop Communities through Art
A client at the shelter where I serve has trouble walking due to a work accident. If it were up to him, he would sit in his wheelchair all day because walking is a painful challenge. For some time, every day was a battle between him and I—me, prodding him to exercise with his walker; him, refusing [...]Read More
Asian Roundtable Heats Up
From small beginnings, Craig Wong pioneered what has become an exciting and important forum for CCDA's future For the past twelve [National Conferences], CCDA board member Craig Wong has faithfully hosted a small networking [lunch] to gather Asians of every ethnicity. [In 2009], which marked the [...]Read More