- The Big Picture Blog has posted it’s second set of photos from Haiti, including this one provided by the UN. Be warned, many of these photos are incredibly difficult to take in.
- The FBI has posted helpful tips to avoid being scammed when donating to the relief effort. Number 2: Be skeptical of individuals representing themselves as surviving victims or officials asking for donations via e-mail or social networking sites.
- Can my Christian family agree to ignore the Pat Robertson nonsense for the time being? Whether you think the man was out of line or on point, this story threatens to distract from the far more significant events taking place in Haiti. Using Facebook or Twitter to distance oneself from Robertson seems only to draw attention back to ourselves. Are you worried your non-Christian friends assume you share Robertson’s belief? Surely you haven’t given them enough credit. Perhaps the best thing to come from this story is the possible mud-wrestling match between mega-church pastor Rick Warren and Rain Wilson (Dwight from The Office).
David W. Swanson 
David,
Good reporting. Don’t know how you do it all.!
CAMA is the relief organization of the CMA, and they have a post on cmalliance.org. regarding giving. Your folks know the director, Phil Skellie as they were in school together at Simpson College.
Grandma
I can ONLY ignore his comments if I hope to stay sane.
I was sharing my feelings of compassionate complication today – if you have any wisdom to share, I’d love to hear it. http://lifeaslyricpoetry.blogspot.com/2010/01/compassion-is-complicated.html