It’s all too often unheard. It’s all too often invisible. Despite the fairly recent headline grabbing reports of sexual abuse of young boys by Catholic priests, the fact remains that sexual abuse of male children the lowest reported form of child abuse in the United States. Read more…
Narratives that participate in and promote the efforts to realize justice in society, that is part of the guiding visions behind the Non-Happy Endings project. A similar vision was shared by Alan Bean of Friends of Justice. Read more…
Recently the head of Catholic Charities USA, Fr. Larry Snyder, was quoted:
As the legislators and administration officials were meeting on the issue, he said, “it is essential that they recognize the implications of inaction.” Read more…
Care to know what it looks like when someone has completely given up hope in themselves, society, and a future. It’s not all that pretty. Read more…
Texas is concerned about a marked increase in child deaths due to abuse or neglect. 280 children died in this manner last year. Read more…
Mass transit is one of the foundational pieces of providing reasonable access to opportunities and resources to a vast segment of the country, those for whom a personal car is not simply a given. Read more…
Much of what I have been reading recently about tent cities formed by homeless people in cities all around the country has been predictable. In Colorado Springs, the land of disappearing public services, the answer was obvious: just outlaw them and they’ll all just go away and magically find houses right? Read more…
This post formed out of an interesting intersection of influences. Just the other night I was talking with my friends Troy and Adrainne about the various responses the homeless and the poor receive when they approach people for money. Read more…
Much of the image of the Muslim world by western non-Muslims, is to put it bluntly, that they hate women. Now I know that to say that reflects a gross misunderstanding of, or even complete unwillingness to understand, very real cultural differences. Read more…
I have been giving quite a bit of thought to an article in the recent issue of The Atlantic. What do we do, what should we do when two voices collide? Especially when one of those voices is a major source of injury and pain to the other voice. Read more…
