Are You Lenting?
We often talk of Lent as a season. Yesterday the woman bagging my groceries made "Lent" a verb. The one-inch-thick, pound-plus bar of Belgian chocolate was already safely tucked away in one of the bags when I explained that for the next 40 days I'd be abstaining from sweets and alcoholic beverage

posted 11:18:30am Mar. 06, 2014 | read full post »

Musical Mental Health Break—Parker Millsap's "Truckstop Gospel"
This week's musical mental health break comes from the world of folk rock where I stumbled into Parker Millsap and his "Truckstop Gospel," thanks to a segment on NPR yesterday. Park

posted 11:05:12am Feb. 28, 2014 | read full post »

Justice Advocate Bruce Strom Shares Stories from Frontlines
Yesterday we met Bruce Strom who is helping to grow and steer a movement of lawyers and churches giving a voice to legally d

posted 11:24:12am Feb. 25, 2014 | read full post »

Meet Someone on Frontlines of Injustice in America
Yesterday I promised you a treat: today is the first installment of an interview with Bruce Strom. Strom directs t

posted 11:22:47am Feb. 24, 2014 | read full post »

Letter From An Atlanta Jail
Yes, any implicit self-comparisons to Martin Luther King Jr. stop with the headline. But seriously, last week I went to jail. Not for a civil rights protest, and no, not for being a great sinner, although I've had plenty of great sinning days, too. I went to jail to visit a woman who is there

posted 12:54:19pm Feb. 23, 2014 | read full post »