Category: Speaking Up

  • Getting Beyond the Dogma of Personal Reponsibility

    James Tissot [Public domain],via Wikimedia Commons Yesterday my friend Robert Charlock submitted a letter to the Indianapolis Star regarding the need for a Homeless Bill of Rights in Indianapolis.  The self-righteous on-line comments of those who assume poverty is usually the result of personal choices quickly emerged: “How many brought this upon themselves? When having a…

  • Words That Must Be Spoken

    But if I say I’ll never mention the Lord or speak in his name,his word burns in my heart like a fire. It’s like a fire in my bones!I am worn out trying to hold it in! I can’t do it!  Jeremiah 20:9 (NLT) Jeremiah prophesied in a hard season.  It was a time when…