tag: social justice

Is it really possible to be a Church modeled after Jesus, who came to us from the Father “full of grace and truth” (John 1:14)? Throughout 2015, BIC U.S. National Director Alan Robinson and I have been imagining this high calling for the Church as we’ve facilitated the Impact Seminar…

Last week I received a call from our foster care agency: There’s another child in need of care. He’s two years old, and his mom was arrested. It’s only for three days. Can we take him? I think about my hectic schedule…

I was born in Santa Barbara, California — gorgeous, clean, sunny Santa Barbara. Eight years ago, I bought a home in Kensington, a notoriously poor and drug-ridden section of Philadelphia. For the first few years I lived here, trash would rain into my backyard from neighboring rooftops (cereal boxes…